In the courtyard of the Marienkirche in Lubeck, Germany, there is a bronze statue of a little devil sitting on a large boulder. The legend behind the statue and the boulder is that when the church was being built, the devil originally helped the construction workers because he thought they were building an inn (at the time, essentially a bar and a den of iniquity). However, when he found out they were building a church, he threw a particularly devilish hissy-fit and tried to destroy the walls. The builders managed to placate him by agreeing to build a drinking hall across the street - and it remains there to this day in the form of the Rathauskeller (actually, a rather nice restaurant).
