Metal (most likely bronze)
statue of chamois standing on the mountain-top aestetically decorates modernistic concrete fountain in the centre of village Gams.
Statue is not (visibly) named, nor any plaque installed on the fountain.
An agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, that lives in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus, is symbol of this alpine village.
Gams is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, with population just above 3000.
First mentioned in 835 as Campesias, later in 1210 as Chames, in 1236 as Gamps.
Until the Middle Ages it was a Romansh village and was known in Romansh as Chiamp.
Despite we can find chamois on the villages´s coat of arms, it is just an example of false canting.
The village name
Gams doesn't come from Gemse but from the Romansh Campesias which means "field of sheep".