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The Alte Rathaus (''Old Council House'') is a building in central

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, located at Wipplingerstraße 8, 1st

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Architecture

After several rebuildings, its exterior is now in the style of

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, although the official rooms are in the Baroque style and some Gothic elements are still recognisable. The entrance gate dates to 1700. The courtyard contains the 1741 Andromeda Fountain designed by Georg Raphael Donner, whilst behind the courtyard is the 14th century Gothic Sankt Salvator church. The council chamber was redesigned between 1851 and 1853 by the Viennese architect Ferdinand Fellner the Elder.

History

Frederick the Fair Frederick the Fair (german: Friedrich der Schöne) or the Handsome (c. 1289 – 13 January 1330), from the House of Habsburg, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1308 as well as the anti-king of Germany from 1314 until 1325 and then co-king ...

donated the original building on the site to the city council in 1316 and has been owned by the city ever since. It was the site of the execution of Franz III. Nádasdy on 30 April 1671 in the wake of the

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. On 26 May 1848, during Vienna's March Revolution, it housed meetings of the People's Security Committee, as memorialised by a plaque on the building. Since 1871 Sankt Salvator has been in the care of the

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, which was founded by those rejecting the doctrine of

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, though that new religious community was only recognised by the Austrian state in 1877. The Altes Rathaus last housed a meeting of Vienna's city council on 20 June 1885,''Das alte Rathhaus der Stadt Wien.'' In: Tageszeitung ''Neue Freie Presse'', Wien, Nr. 7475, 21. Juni 1885, S. 6
/ref> with the first at the Neue Rathaus three days later. The Altes Rathaus now houses the municipal offices for the 1st and 8th districts of the city, the inner city's local history museum (''Bezirksmuseum Innere Stadt'') and the

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. In 1893, it was the site of the founding of the

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References

External links

Bezirksmuseum Innere Stadt

Geschite Wiki - Altes Rathaus
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