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Explore Neuer Markt: Vienna’s Historic Heart and Hidden Gems

Explore Neuer Markt: Vienna’s Historic Heart and Hidden Gems

To explain an indelible strip of art and beauty. The Neuer Markt( New Market), one of the oldest places in Vienna, is located west of the Karntner road( Kärntner Straße). During the Second World War, the forecourt was heavily damaged. numerous structures were lost and replaced by ultramodern bones.

The most notorious structure on the Neuer Markt is the Capuchin Church( Kapuzinerkirche). Below it’s the sleeping place of the Habsburgs in the Capuchin Crypt. hard you will find the Ambassador Hotel and the house erected for the Gebrüder Wild, a former traditional delicacy shop erected in the style of the German Belle epoque with a facade of the” Old German period”. Also check out the Mayseder house, one of the oldest houses on the forecourt, and the demesne of the traditional jeweler AE Köchert.

One of the most important and emotional corridor of the Neuer Markt is the Donnerbrunnen, the popular name for the Providentia root designed by Georg Raphael Donner and erected from 1737 to 1739. It was a popular meeting place of the Viennese folklore in the 1980s.

In the middle of the root stands the Providentia, a symbol of foresight or good government. It’s girdled by four allegorical numbers representing gutters in the Archduchy of Austria.

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