Stock Photo - The Iron Knight by Ladislav Saloun at the New Town Hall, Prague near Stare mesto The Iron Knight stands at the cornice of the New Town Hall across from the library It is one of paired sculptures depicting the legend of Rabbi Loew who protected Josefov by creating the Golem Legend has it Iron Knight, a Christian, loved the rabbi’s daughter and pursued her for marriage The Iiron Knight ws Rudolf II in disguise The Iron Knight, whose name is Florian, was sent to Rabbi Loew to declare the expulsion of the Jews, but instead he became enamoured of the rabbi’s daughter The sculptural group remained intact during the Nazi occupation while the statue of Wagner got tossed off the roof of the Rudolfinum as it was mistaken for Mendelssohn So the pair of sculptures have their own legend of surviving Nazi persecution and destruction and have become a symbol of Jewish survival and Nazi defiance in Prague The new town Hall lies just outide of what once ws the border of Josefov before the clearance and reconstruction of Josefov