미터타이히 최고의 러닝 경로

Private family chapel

Exceptional view, great scenery and vastness.

Very beautiful landscape and view.

In 1871, a comprehensive poem entitled "The Blacksmith of Mitterteich" was published in Vienna. The artist Engelbert Süß, who comes from Mitterteich, depicted the content of this legend in an impressive bronze sculpture. The sculpture shows the blacksmith fighting with the devil and the spirits of hell that he has in his sack. Death hangs miserably in the apple tree (a symbol of life). According to the legend, there lived a blacksmith in Mitterteich who sold his soul to the devil so that he could have a wife. By making three cleverly chosen wishes, the blacksmith managed to avoid the devil's pact and save his soul. The fountain was made according to the artist's designs in the Karl Herrbich art foundry in Gerlinden between 1989 and 1990.

The text on the pillar sounds almost like a nursery rhyme today, but it has a bitter background: "A fox came into our corn house. He caught the dog in our corn house. The fox caught the dog, the dog caught the cat, the cat caught the rat, the rat caught the mouse, the mouse caught the corn, everything is lost in our corn house." If you look around, you will find a fox, dog and cat as stone reliefs on the sides of the bridge.

The second hunger column in Mitterteich stands on the Schreiber Bridge. Four mice cling to the high stele, which bears an inscription above the year 1921. Above it, more mice nibble on ears of grain. A green lamp in the shape of a little house that glows at night completes the column. This column commemorates the famine of 1770 to 1772. Two rainy summers and a hailstorm destroyed the harvest and drove grain prices up tenfold. The hardship was great, and many people died.

When the work of art was completed, viewers were horrified to see that the glassblower had "horns" on his head. The artist wanted to use them to represent the workers' connection to God. The glassmakers did not want to be depicted with horns, so they were sawed off and peace was restored. Underwater lighting was installed so that the fountain could shine in its beauty even at night.

When the station square was redesigned in 1985, a work of art was to be used to beautify the square. Josef Wolf designed a fountain made of glass tubes. It consists of a basin paved with granite stones. The Schott company provided the glass tubes. They are arranged in tiers. The water flows from bottom to top in the tubes. The symbolic figure of a glassblower sits enthroned on the highest glass tube. A grid made of stainless steel is intended to artistically reinforce the work and provide protection. The artist wanted to use the materials to create a connection to modern industry.