Beside the south door of the Marienkirche sits a low boulder with a small bronze devil casually perched on it, sculpted by the Lübeck artist Rolf Goerler in 1999. The statue makes literal a local legend that has been told to children for centuries: that the devil helped build St Marien on the understanding it would be a tavern, and was tricked into accepting the construction of a wine bar (the still-standing Ratskeller, in fact) nearby as compensation.
The stone is exactly where the legend says it was dropped. Children climb on it. A small, free piece of urban folklore beside one of the great Gothic churches of Europe.