The article, written on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the German-Czech sculptor Franz Metzner (November 18, 1870), focuses on Metzner‘s ties to northern Bohemia and Liberec, his sculptural and personal ties to the local environment. The text is accompanied by an edition of Metzner‘s correspondence, which draws from the surviving copiers from 1906–1918, stored in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg, Abteilung Deutsches Kunstarchiv. In addition to mentions of the Liberec fountain, a number of letters has been preserved on the creation of a monument to Heinrich von Liebieg for Liberec, which finally not realized. The only work done for the Liberec (Reichenberg) region and the Frýdlant (Friedland) region, respectively, was a hundred-circle portrait relief for the monument to Emperor Joseph II, created in 1912 and lost today. In this context, the Raspenava (Raspenau) painter Franz Wenzel Jäger, Metzner‘s longtime friend, also plays an important role, to whom letters concerning non-artistic matters are also attached.