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Inside the Stephansdom . Wiener Neustädter Altar
Friedrich III commissioned the elaborate
The lofty vaulted interior of the Stephansdom contains altarpiece in 1447. Painted panels open
an impressive collection of art spanning several centuries. out to reveal an earlier carved interior
showing scenes from the lives of the
Masterpieces of Gothic sculpture include the fabulously Virgin Mary and Christ. This panel
intricate pulpit, several figures of saints adorning the portrays the Adoration of the Magi (1420).
piers, and the canopies or baldachins over many of
the side altars. To the left of the High Altar is the early
15th-century winged Wiener Neustädter Altar, bearing
the painted images
of 72 saints. The
altar panels open
out to reveal delicate The Catacombs
A flight of steps leads down to the
sculptural groups. catacombs, which extend under
The most spectacular the cathedral square.
Renaissance work is the
tomb of Friedrich III,
while the High Altar
adds a flamboyant
Baroque note.

Portrait of Pilgram
Master craftsman Anton Pilgram left
a portrait of himself holding a square
and compass below the corbel of the
original organ.

. Pilgram’s Pulpit
Pilgram’s intricate Gothic
pulpit is decorated with . High Altar
portraits of the Four Tobias Pock’s altarpiece shows
Fathers of the Church the martyrdom of St Stephen.
(theologians representing The sculptures were fashioned
four physiognomic by Johann Jakob Pock in 1647.
temperaments), while
Pilgram himself looks out
from a “window” below.
KEY
1 The Canopy with the Pötsch the grave of the military hero and has a lid bearing a lifelike
Madonna is a 16th-century Prince Eugene. carved portrait of the emperor.
The Pummerin Bell canopy that shelters a 1697 icon 5 Bishop’s Gate It dates from the 15th century.
of the Madonna, to which Prince q The Sexton’s Lodge houses
The bell that hangs in the North Tower, Eugene’s victory over the Turks at 6 Lift to the Pummerin Bell the stairs that lead up the steeple.
known as the Pummerin or “Boomer”, Zenta was attributed. It comes 7 Christ with Toothache (1420)
is a potent symbol of Vienna’s turbulent from Pócs, a village in Hungary. is the irreverent name of this w Chapel of St Catherine
past. The original bell was made from 2 Main entrance figure; legend has it that Christ e The Madonna of the
melted-down cannons abandoned afflicts mockers with toothache. Servants
when the Turks fled Vienna in 1683. 3 The Statue of Crucified 8 Exit from crypt r The Füchsel Baldachin is a
The bell crashed down through the Christ above the altar has, fine Gothic canopy.
Organ Gallery and Case roof in 1945 when fire swept through according to legend, a beard of 9 Albertine Choir
In 1960 this modern organ was the Stephansdom, and a new and human hair that is still growing. 0 Emperor Friedrich III’s tomb t The Trinity Altar probably
installed in the loft above the even larger bell was cast using the 4 The Tirna Chapel houses is made from ornate red marble dates from around 1740.
entrance. A more recent organ remains of the old.
is in the south choir area.

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