Donauweibchenbrunnen

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Donauweibchenbrunnen
Hotel Imperial: staircase with the Danube female
An evening in the park , concert with Der Nino from Vienna at the Donauweibchenbrunnen (2011)

The Donauweibchenbrunnen in the part of the Vienna City Park located in the 1st district of Vienna Inner City is one of six fountains in this park.

description

The Donauweibchenbrunnen consists of a stone column made of karst limestone, four attached round fountain bowls and head masks as gargoyles.

On the top of the stone pillar stands the figure of the Danube female, a legendary figure who allegedly helped troubled fishermen or warned them of the Danube floods . At their feet is a small shield with the city arms of Vienna .

history

The Donauweibchenbrunnen was originally created for the Fischhof by Hanns Gasser on behalf of the City of Vienna in 1858 , but was not erected there, but initially deposited in a municipal warehouse for two years. On September 30, 1865, it was finally unveiled as the city park's first figural ornament.

During the Second World War, the Danube female , originally made of Carrara marble, was badly damaged, so that the sculptor Fellinger made a stone copy in 1948, which now replaces the original.

Original and copies

In the Hotel Imperial on Vienna's Ringstrasse there is either the original or a copy of the Danube female. In the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz a reduced and also made of Carrara marble version of the fountain sculpture is kept. Another copy was in the former Roman bath in Vienna's 2nd district .

See also

literature

  • 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
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Josef Donner
  2. ↑ http://www.veritas.at/fm/4/3-900196-80-X_M.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.veritas.at  
  3. ^ DEHIO Vienna - 1st district Duke Philipp von Württemberg-Palais

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 47.1 ″  E