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. Wiener Neustädter Altar
Friedrich III commissioned the elaborate
altarpiece in 1447. Painted panels open
out to reveal an earlier carved interior
showing scenes from the lives of the
Virgin Mary and Christ. This panel
portrays the Adoration of the Magi (1420).

. High Altar
Tobias Pock’s altarpiece shows
the martyrdom of St Stephen.
The sculptures were fashioned
by Johann Jakob Pock in 1647.

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.
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
Eugene’s victory over the Turks at 6 Lift to the Pummerin Bell the stairs that lead up the steeple.
Zenta was attributed. It comes 7 Christ with Toothache (1420)
from Pócs, a village in Hungary. is the irreverent name of this w Chapel of St Catherine
2 Main entrance figure; legend has it that Christ e The Madonna of the
afflicts mockers with toothache. Servants
3 The Statue of Crucified
Christ above the altar has, 8 Exit from crypt r The Füchsel Baldachin is a
according to legend, a beard of 9 Albertine Choir fine Gothic canopy.
human hair that is still growing. t The Trinity Altar probably
0 Emperor Friedrich III’s tomb
4 The Tirna Chapel houses is made from ornate red marble dates from around 1740.

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