This fountain stands in the grounds of the Waisenhaus, where Wiki and Loxon attend childcare. The figure represents Caritas, the personification of everyday love, which is a fitting subject both for the orphanage in which it was first constructed and for the modern school and childcare which the orphanage has become. It was built by Balthasar Hüglin in 1677, about a decade after the orphanage was established from the medieval monastry.

In the late afternoon, the children depicted with Caritas are often replicated on the ground around the fountain by living infants: the youngest section of the childcare waiting to be collected by their parents.