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Narrenturm ''(Tower of Fools)'' may refer to: * ''Narrenturm'' (novel), a fantasy novel by Andrzej Sapkowski * Narrenturm (hospital) The Narrenturm (''Fool's Tower'') in Vienna is continental Europe's oldest building for the accommodation of psychiatric patients. Built in 1784, it is next to the site of the old Vienna General Hospital, and is now home to the Federal Patholo ..., the world's first psychiatric hospital, located in Vienna, Austria {{disambig de:Narrenturm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrenturm (novel)
''The Tower of Fools'' (Polish original title: ''Narrenturm'') is the first historical fantasy novel in the ''Hussite Trilogy'' written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in 2002 in Polish and in English in 2020. It is followed by '' Warriors of God'' (''Boży bojownicy'') and '' Lux perpetua''. It tells the story of Reinmar of Bielawa, also called Reynevan von Bielau. The action takes place in Silesia in 1425, at the time of the Hussite Wars. The setting is mostly historical, with some historical characters and descriptions of particular locations. Fantasy elements include occasional magical feats, artifacts, and non-human characters. The German word '' Narrenturm'' means ''The Tower of Fools'', a tower in which, in Middle Ages, people suffering from rare mental diseases were isolated. ''The Tower of Fools'' has been translated to Czech, Slovak, Russian, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Finnish, French, Spanish, and Brazilian Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrenturm (hospital)
The Narrenturm (''Fool's Tower'') in Vienna is continental Europe's oldest building for the accommodation of psychiatric patients. Built in 1784, it is next to the site of the old Vienna General Hospital, and is now home to the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum Vienna (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum Wien). The building The Narrenturm was constructed in 1784, under Emperor Joseph II, by Isidore Canevale. It consisted of a five-story, fortress-like circular building with 28 rooms and a ring of slit windows, plus a central chamber aligned north-to-south. There were in total 139 individual cells for the inmates. The building of the Narrenturm was prompted by the discovery of underground dungeons used by the Capuchin monks of Vienna for housing their mentally ill brethren; another factor was that Joseph II had learned about similar institutions in France during his travels there. The construction of the Narrenturm points to a new attitude towards the mentally ill – t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
