Fool mask
In the Middle Ages, the fool's mask was the symbol of freedom of speech, the silent rose the symbol of secrecy. In the knight's hall of Eltz Castle there is a fool's mask and a silence rose as decorations on a pillar or above the door.
Fool masks or figures can be found on the town halls of the old towns of Eisleben and Wernigerode , the renaissance town hall of Bad Gandersheim , the former council cellar of Osterwieck and the Roland pedestals of Magdeburg , Gardelegen and Stendal .