Not only two female singers and two male singers survived the horrible fire in the Viennese Ringtheater in December 1881 but columns were under the survivors too. These theatre columns were still usable and cheap. That’s why they were included into the building of the church Kaisermühlenkirche at the Schüttauplatz. A place from where one easily can walk to the ”coldest part of Vienna”. Where a special track commemorates the ice extraction out of the Old Danube and the name reminds us of the discovery of the „Franz Josefs Lands“ in the Northern Arctic Sea.
Two clocks “survived” the fire of the Viennese Ringtheater too. They can be seen in the Clock Museum of the Wien Museum. As is the famous watch and clock collection of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Read the rest of this entry »
How did it happen? He was celebrating an anniversary and an invitation arrived at his home. The invitation to become an honorary citizen of Vienna to mark his 80th birthday. An there it is – hidden in the official letter – the sentence that he should eat something substantial before he goes to the ceremonial act. Because the certificate will be handed over in reality to celebrate the laureate. And the certificate is quite large. And heavyweight. A gorgeously decorated cover safeguards some richly illuminated certificate pages. They outdid themselves.
