Liberation of the Spring Fountain

The Liberation of the Spring Fountain, one of six fountains in the Stadtpark in the 1st district dating from 1903, shows two giant male figures struggling to lift a boulder that is obstructing the flow of water from a spring. The water flows from a gap that has already formed into an oval water basin at a lower level; between the group of figures and the fountain basin is a sculpted „natural rock“.

The Leithakalk fountain, designed by Hagebund artist Josef Heu, is part of a staircase leading to the lower Vienna river promenade opposite the dairy in the 3rd district and was purchased by the City of Vienna on the occasion of the VIII. Spring Exhibition.