Augustin Fountain

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The Augustin Fountain in Vienna

The Augustinbrunnen is a fountain on Augustinplatz in Vienna's 7th district of Neubau .

history

At the site of today's fountain Augustin was in the 17th century a plague pit in which the ballad singer and bagpiper Marx Augustin ( "Dear Augustin") was inadvertently thrown, but due to his bagpipe game was eventually rescued. In 1861 the folk singer Johann Fürst wanted to have a statue erected in honor of Marx Augustine from the proceeds of a planned “entertainment evening”, but this did not materialize. At Strohplatzl , as today's Augustinplatz was called earlier, there was apparently a fountain as early as the 19th century.

Fountain with an old bronze sculpture

The Augustin Fountain was created by the sculptor Hans Scherpe and unveiled on September 4, 1908 by the Mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger . It is said that the fountain was operated with wine on special occasions. During the Second World War , the bronze sculpture was melted down, a fate that the Augustin Fountain had to share with other Viennese fountains and sculptures at that time .

After the end of the war, the Alt-Wiener Bund association suggested the erection of a new statue. Today's sandstone Augustin figure was created by Josef Humplik and ceremoniously unveiled on October 18, 1952 by City Councilor Johann Mandl . After the small square on which the listed fountain is located was colloquially called Augustinplatzl , it was officially named Augustinplatz in 2009 , and the singer Liane Augustin was named after Marx Augustin .

layout

In the middle of the flat fountain bowl is a square base with the inscription “ Augustin fountain. Erected by the municipality of Vienna under Mayor Dr. Karl Lueger in 1908 ”. The inscription on the back reads “ I was gone, now it's me again and now it's listening to my songs ”. The water outlets on the front, left and right of the base are decorated with ornaments depicting grapevines . On the pedestal sits the figure of dear Augustine, who stands cross-legged and holds his bagpipes. The bronze sculpture from 1908 also depicted dear Augustine with his bagpipes, but bore little resemblance to today's statue and was larger and more detailed. The Augustin designed by Josef Humplik corresponded to the idea of ​​modern art in the 1950s.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The new love Augustin . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 19, 1952, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ Vienna in retrospect, October 1952 - The new love Augustin
  3. ↑ wien.at - Celebration for the naming of Augustinplatz ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • DEHIO Vienna - II. To IX. and XX. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .
  • Josef Donner: The spring jumps up - water in the cityscape - A Viennese fountain encyclopedia (II. - IX. And XXII. District) , Volume 2, Austrian Association for the Gas and Water Sector ÖVGW, Vienna 2002

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '19.4 "  N , 16 ° 21' 4.7"  E