Wächter (German: [ˈvɛçtər], Guards or Guardians, also singular) is a series of large outdoor iron sculptures by Anatol Herzfeld, a student of Joseph Beuys who was both a traffic policeman and an artist, with a recurring theme.

Several of Anatol's monumental outdoor sculptures are called Wächter (Guards or Guardians), early ones also Eisenmänner (Iron Men): Wächter der Goitzsche (Guards of the Goitzsche) is the title of a group of up to ten large figures by Anatol.

The group is one of 14 art installations at the Landschaftspark Goitzsche in Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, and is located on the western shore of the Paupitzscher See [de].

[7] Die Wächter der Kinder (The Guardians of the Children) is a group of iron figures located at the Casinogarten park in Viersen.

[3] Wächter (Guard) is an iron sculpture of one large figure with surrounding glacial erratics (Findlinge), placed in 2011 at the Landespolizeischule in Selm-Bork, a training and convention centre for the police, as a monument for police officers from North Rhine-Westphalia who were killed in the line of duty.