Fountain in the Rathauspark

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One of the fountains in the Rathauspark

As a fountain in City Hall Park , the two fountains are in City Hall Park in front of the Vienna City Hall called.

description

The identical fountains have round basins, in the center of which boulders form an island from which the water jet rises.

history

Antonio Gabrielli , who commissioned by the city of Vienna , the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline was built, gave up a portion of the rightful money in favor of a representative fountain on the condition that it should be put into operation at the opening of the aqueduct. When looking for a suitable location for the occasion, the new Rathauspark was also checked for suitability.

At the request of the mayor at the time, Cajetan Felder, this was laid out between 1870 and 1873 as an additional recreational space next to the Vienna City Park without any decorative accessories such as statues or fountains according to plans by the city gardener Rudolph Siebeck and opened on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone for the new Vienna City Hall.

However, the park required two fountains because of the fact that a rising object in the axis of the town hall tower could hardly be reconciled architecturally. Therefore, at its meeting on August 6, 1872, the municipal council decided, with Gabrielli's consent, to build two monumental fountains, one at his expense and the second at the expense of the municipality. Since these fountains, however, would not be completed at the same time as the high spring water pipeline, as requested by Gabrielli, the municipal council decided - also in agreement with Antonio Gabrielli - to build an architecturally simple fountain, which during the negotiations was referred to as a high-jet fountain , which only went through its powerful water jets impressed.

Friedrich von Schmidt , the architect of the new Vienna City Hall, designed two column fountains for the City Hall Park. One of these designs is still preserved and shows - similar to the Pallas-Athene fountain in front of the parliament - a towering column with a female figure on its top. The structure of this column was similar to that of the Guardian Angel Fountain in Wiedner Hauptstrasse . Figures in medieval costumes were provided at the base. It is not known why, in the end, only the well basins were built in their current form.

On the occasion of the commissioning of the second Viennese spring water pipeline on December 2, 1910, the operation of the two town hall fountains was switched to water from this pipeline.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Rudolph Stadler
  2. ↑ DEHIO
  3. ↑ 'The Unbuilt Vienna
  4. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/parks/anlagen/rathauspark.html

See also

literature

  • Rudolph Stadler: The water supply of the city of Vienna in its past and present - memorandum for the opening of the high spring water pipeline in 1873 , Verlag des Wiener Gemeinderat, Vienna, 1873
  • DEHIO Vienna - I. District Inner City . Berger, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 .
  • Josef Donner: The spring jumps up - water in the cityscape - A Viennese fountain encyclopedia (1st district) , 1st volume, Austrian Association for the Gas and Water Sector ÖVGW, Vienna, 1998
  • The Unbuilt Vienna, Projects for the Metropolis 1800–2000 , Catalog Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1999

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 36.2 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 34.5 ″  E