This particular fountain is made of marble and has some Roman gods surrounded by the nude figures I mentioned earlier, the Ybbs, Traun, Enns and March rivers. The fountain was sculpted by Georg Raphael Donner, a renowned artist who is also responsible for several Baroque-style sculptures in the city. These statues have not yet returned to the source and are kept in the Baroque Museum. The source you see in the photo is the Donnerbrunnen, a fountain that was built in 1739 on the Neuer Markt: it had nude figures, allegories of the tributary rivers of the Danube, but they were quickly removed by Empress Maria Theresa and her Chastity commission. And you can drink water from all of them! Did you know? Interesting, but it also has a lot of historical sources and that makes it one of the most beautiful and lively cities in the world. The Donnerbrunnen was re-opened in all its former glory in 1947.We could say that Vienna It is the city of fountains and bridges, as there are more than 1000 bridges, four times the number in Venice. During the Second World War, even the copies were dismantled and stored Original figures at the Marble Hall of the Lower Belvedere Palace as the showpiece of the Baroque collection in the Replaced with copies made of bronze at the fountain today, you can adore the Ybbs is a resting girl with a jug March is a woman resting against a relief depicting a battle - showing the important role that the March played as a natural border.īy 1873, the Donnerbrunnen figures were in a bad state. The rivers of the Donnerbrunnen look as such: Traun is a young man with a trident, catching a fish at the base of the fountain Įnns is an old ferryman, resting against a rock - thereby underlining the importance of the river Enns as a traffic line from the Alps. Austrian Rivers that are Depicted in the Donnerbrunnen For other examples in Vienna, see the Austria Fountain on theĪlbertina bastion. River allegories are not unusual for Vienna, their origins can be tracked back to playful garden fountains of the The four figures that surround Providentia represent the four main rivers of theĪustrian heartlands: The two male ones those of Upper Austria, the two female ones those of Great water supplies for Vienna - this is essentially the motive of the fountain. Wisdom of good governance - at least according to an interpretation that I read and that I consider a bit far-fetched, but anyway. As an allegory, one could interpret it as the foresight and Providentia, which means foresight or destiny. Allegories of the Donnerbrunnen: Providentia & CoĪt the centre of the Donnerbrunnen, you can see the allegory of In 1801, they were restored at their original site. Fischer recognised the outstanding quality and value of the Donnerfountain and Johann Martin Fischer was ordered to smelt the sculptures. Under the rule of Empress Maria Theresia, the Donner fountain was suddenly considered to be too naked and rude for a public display. They were presented on the name day of Emperor Karl VI in 1739. Johann Nikolaus Moll created the figures. Georg Raphael Donner created the models for the casts, It was built after 1737 upon order of theĬity of Vienna, which is unusual for a Baroque piece of art - at the Vienna of this time, only Emperor, rich nobility and the church could afford artwork. The fountain became internationally famous in 1995, when it featured as a Baroque fountain in the Generation-X movie "Before Sunrise" withĮthan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Georg Raphael Donner, thus the much more convenient name of Donnerbrunnen. Odd name hard to remember the artist in charge was the famous sculptor The Donnerbrunnen Fountain is actually called " Providentiabrunnen", which is an Imperial Crypt under the Capuchin Church, which can be found right at the Many tourists pass the Donnerbrunnen on the way to or from the Parking lot and there is a lot of traffic, which harms the appeal of both square and fountain. The Donnerbrunnen is a Baroque fountain in central Vienna, situated on the centre of the Donnerbrunnen Donnerbrunnen Fountain, Vienna:
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