Monat: April 2024

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.

The Georg-Emmerling-Hof municipal residential complex in the 2nd district – opposite Schwedenplatz – built in 1957 and renovated between 2019 and 2022 was named after the social democratic politician and Viennese deputy mayor (1919-1934) Georg Emmerling.

The building, designed by Arch. Rudolf Hofbauer, Elisabeth Hofbauer-Lachner and Leo Kammel, with six to seven-storey side wings flanking a single-storey building with a flat roof and store windows on the first floor, also has a landscaped courtyard.

In this courtyard there is also a sculpture of a goat by the sculptor Alois Heidel, who specialized in animal sculptures, whose emaciated appearance, probably alluding to the times of hardship survived during the Second World War, is said to have triggered discussions. Also worth mentioning is the two-storey half-sculpture Themroc from 2021 with a depiction of workers and two natural stone reliefs called „Market“ and „Harbour Motif“ on the façade facing the Danube Canal.