Animal drinking fountain

Animal drinking fountain in Mariahilf

"Dedicated to animal welfare by Kammersängerin Hedwig Kauffmann-Francillo"

The animal drinking fountain is a listed ( list entry ) fountain in Gumpendorfer Straße near the Rahlstiege with the goose girl fountain in the 6th district of Mariahilf in Vienna .

The animal drinking fountain created by Adolf Stöckl together with the sculptor Josef Thorak was donated by the opera singer Hedwig Francillo-Kauffmann together with other animal lovers and unveiled on July 22, 1916. It shows the singer leaning against a horse's head. The original installation site was at the Vienna Secession . In 1968 it was relocated to its current location on the so-called Papiermacherplatzl .

See also

• Fountain in Vienna

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 : Animal Drinking Fountain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Animal drinking fountain in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Architectural dictionary - Adolf Stöckl
2. ↑ ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1948-09-25, page 4. Retrieved on July 1, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '3.4 "  N , 16 ° 21" 42.7 "  E