Ox Portal - Nuremberg, Germany - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

In the 15th and 16th century, this part of the historical Imperial Town of Nuremberg was the meat market. While it was first an open air market, a building, called the Meat House (Fleischhaus) was built in 1570.

In 1599, A portal was added to the building.

A Latin inscription underneath the ox reads:
Omnia habent ortus suaque in crementa sed ecce quem cernis nunquam bos fuit hic Vitulus.
(All things have a beginning and grow, but the ox upon whom you now look was never a calf.)