High market

The Hohe Markt heading north-west with the junction from (from left to right) Tuchlauben, Wipplingerstraße and Marc-Aurel-Straße

The Hohe Markt is one of the oldest and most historic squares in Vienna . It is located north of Stephansplatz in the middle of the old town of Vienna's 1st district , the Inner City .

location

North-west: The rectangular, elongated square borders with its north-western narrow side on the Tuchlauben / Marc-Aurel-Straße, a one-way street leading into the heart of the old town, towards Graben . On the northwest side of the square, at the junction to the Tuchlauben, the house number Hoher Markt 6 was assigned, at the junction to Marc-Aurel-Straße the number 7. Wipplingerstraße (one-way out of town) branches off between these two houses, where the old one is The town hall and the former front of the Bohemian Court Chancellery are located from the Hoher Markt.

Northeast: House numbers 8 to 11 were assigned on the north-eastern long side of the square. The Judengasse branches off between houses No. 9 and No. 10 in the direction of Ruprechtskirche and Stadttempel .

Southwest: The numbering of the houses on the Hohe Markt begins in the southwest, at the corner of the Bauernmarkt, with no.1, and ends on this side in the northwest, at the corner of Tuchlauben, with no.5 4 a pedestrian passage to Landskrongasse and Wildpretmarkt.

South-east: Here the square borders on the farmers' market , a narrow, crossing lane (with the anchor clock ), between whose branches the short Lichtensteg to Rotenturmstraße , connection from St. Stephen's Cathedral to the Danube Canal , and to Lugeck, a small square at the beginning of Sonnenfelsgasse and Bäckerstraße, leads. House No. 12 is located on this narrow side of the square north of the corner with Lichtensteg; this is the highest house number given on the Hoher Markt.

history

Historic engraving of the Hohe Markt, situation probably 16./17. Century (from Bermann: Old and New Vienna, 1880)

The 18.5 m high marriage fountain

The Hohe (in the sense of: important ) market lies above the ruins of the so-called tribune houses (staff officer's quarters) of the former Roman legion camp Vindobona , just north of its main street Via principalis . In the Middle Ages , the Hohe Markt was a center of bourgeois Vienna and was surrounded by numerous guild houses. Mainly food and textiles were traded. From 1325 to 1839 the Viennese criminal court was located here, and the magistrate civil court until 1850; Initially at about today's No. 11, then in the northwest corner of the square (today's No. 5) was the Schranne , the courthouse, with the in-house chapel "To the death of Christ". The judgments were read from the terrace of the Schranne; the place of execution was mostly elsewhere, mostly outside the city walls. A pillory was set up in front of the cupboard .

In the middle of the square is the Vermählungsbrunnen (also: Josephsbrunnen ), which is dedicated to the marriage of Joseph and Mary . The original fountain was made of wood by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and rebuilt from marble by his son Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach around 1792 .

At the anchor clock , created by Franz Matsch in Art Nouveau style and spanning the farmers' market at its northeastern junction from Hohen Markt (at no.11 ), a personality from Viennese history moves across the bridge every hour on the hour, while music is played. Another building from the Art Nouveau style was an underground public toilet in the southeastern part of the center of the square (between houses No. 1 and No. 10-11). It was a replica of the public lavatory on the Graben and was closed due to its poor condition and filled in in 2014.

Palais and elegant houses once lined the square, such as the Palais Arnstein of the Salonnière Fanny von Arnstein at No. 1 and the Palais Sina at No. 8. The square was badly destroyed by aerial bombs in the Second World War, and it was rebuilt in the simple architectural 1950s. Years post-war style. In the end, only four buildings remained of the old structure.

As a result of the destruction of the old buildings and in the course of the reconstruction, remains of Roman officers' houses were discovered around 1948, which can be viewed in the Roman Museum , Hoher Markt 3, since 1950 .

The high market towards the southeast around 1898, with the marriage fountain; on the right in the background the Lichtensteg to Rotenturmstraße
The Hohe Markt on a city map by Count Carl Vasquez around 1830; the districts are colored: pink = Schottenviertl ; dark blue = room quarter ; yellow = Wimmerviertl ; light blue = Kärnthnerviertl ; North corresponds to about 10:30 a.m.
The art nouveau anchor clock , which spans the farmer's market at the north-eastern junction from the Hoher Markt, is a well-known tourist attraction