Angel fountain
The Engelbrunnen is a listed fountain ( list entry ) in Wiedner Hauptstraße 55 in the 4th district of Wieden .
history
The Engelbrunnen was named after the war ministerial chancellor Viktor Edler von Engel, who donated 40,000 crowns in his will for the construction of the fountain.
For the design of the fountain, Anton Paul Wagner , who also created the goose girl fountain , took the legend of the clever Elsbeth, who succeeded in capturing two feared robbers, as a model. The fountain, unveiled on December 5, 1893, shows the maid Elisabeth and - at her feet - the captured forest devil Hans Aufschring and his cronies, who function as gargoyles in two round basins framed with metal grids.
See also
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
- Dehio Vienna - II. To IX. and XX. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .
Web links
Commons : Engelbrunnen - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Version of the saga from "Sagen Sagen", Vienna 1922, p.44 The story is told in the same way, but in a more exciting way: Emil Hofmann: Viennese landmarks, presented to school-age youth as a souvenir, Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling sa, p. 127f. According to Hofmann, the legend is based on a historically verifiable event from the second half of the 14th century.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 30 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 1.3 ″ E