The Andromeda Fountain
Donner's final work, from 1741, in fine relief — an important baroque piece in a courtyard nobody knows.
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Worth twenty minutes in passing, especially for the courtyard and fountain. It is not a destination in its own right on a short Vienna trip.
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Vienna's old city hall, before the municipality moved to the vast Gothic building on the Ring in 1885. The building itself is far older — used as a town hall since the fourteenth century — and its present façade is baroque, added in the eighteenth. Two things earn a stop. One is the small inner courtyard with the Andromeda Fountain, the last work of the baroque sculptor Georg Raphael Donner, made in 1741, rendering a Greek myth in delicate relief. The courtyard is open to anyone, free, during working hours. The other is that the building now houses the Museum of Austrian Resistance, documenting resistance to Nazism in Austria — a small, serious section, free to enter, and rarely found in guidebooks. The whole place is a twenty-minute stop between the cathedral and Hoher Markt.
Donner's final work, from 1741, in fine relief — an important baroque piece in a courtyard nobody knows.
A serious record of resistance to Nazism in Austria — small, free and rarely on visitor itineraries.
Wipplingerstraße, Vienna