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Providentia-Brunnen / Donnerbrunnen am Neuen Markt (40 meters to Kaerntnerstrasse) is one of the most beautiful fountains of Vienna. The fountain dates back to the year 1739 and was made by Georg Raphael Donner : In the centre you may see goddess Providentia (providence) and around her 4 sculptures - each of them symbolizing one of the 4 most important rivers flowing into the Danube: the young man is the river TRAUN, the old may the river ENNS, the ladies are the rivers MARCH and YBBS. The fountain was payed by the population of Vienna and does not show a single engraving or decoration of the royal family - this might have been one of the reasons, why the fountain was taken away by order of Kaiserin Maria Theresia in 1770, who said it has too many naked people... It should have been destroyed, BUT somebody saved it and it was reconstructed again in 1801. The fountain on Neuer Markt is made of rather cheap copper - in the marble-hall of Unteres Belvedere you may see the original of that fountain made of cast-iron. Leave a Comment
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Wiener Neustaedter Altar dates back to the year 1447 and it was donated by Friedrich III. You may see this great gothic altar at the end of the left nave of Stephansdom, but you may get close to it ONLY during the guided tour through the cathedral. Such a guided tour is 4 Euros and you have to gather inside the church at a place next to the iron-fence in the back of the cathedral. This tour is also your only chance to get closer to the tomb of Kaiser Friedrich III (at the end of the right nave) and to the main altar with the paintings by Tobias Pock and sculptures by Johann Jakob Pock dating back to 1647. Leave a Comment
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 Vermählungsbrunnen (The
Nuptial Fountain) by Fam.Rauca,
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The construction of the well was planned already since 1702, from the Emperor Leopold I.
He promised the construction of a column, for Saint Joseph, if his son, Joseph I, should return safely from the war.
Charles VI replaced the project with a marble fountains, designed by J.E. Fischer von Erlach, that symbolizes the sacred nuptial group, showing Josef, Mary and various prelates.
A canopy with a representation of the trinity of crowned bronze rises over the group.
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This is the first stop of our walking tour with Michael. In front of the cathedral, but by the side, you will see a tree log in a plastic "case". In that log there are plenty of nails. The story of those nails is that whenever someone left Vienna (when the city was young and smaller) to improve their crafts, they'd hammer a nail on a tree that was where the log is today. Next door, there is a door ornament, sort of like a sculpture, that shows a guy with a hammer . Those who speak German say that the name should be Eisen im Stock but I don't know why (yet!).
Sorry for the bad picture of the log, it was basically impossible for me to take a better shot.
Address: Stephansplatz.
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