Sobre este lugar
Tucked against the cliff of the Moenchsberg on Herbert von Karajan Square, the Pferdeschwemme is one of the most theatrical pieces of plumbing in Europe. It was built in 1693 by Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun as a grand public bath for the court stables, where well over a hundred riding school horses were brought to drink and be scrubbed. At its centre the sculptor Michael Bernhard Mandl carved a muscular Horse Tamer wrestling a rearing stallion from the pale marble of the Untersberg, while the curved back wall carries painted frescoes of the archbishop's finest horses, so the animals could admire their own kind as they drank. For Sound of Music pilgrims it is sacred ground, one of the grand old fountains the children dance past in the Do Re Mi montage. For the people of Salzburg strolling by, it is simply a very old horse trough, since most of them have never seen the film that made it famous.
Datos clave
- 1693 year — The pond was laid out to water and wash the prince archbishops' court horses
- 1695 year — Michael Bernhard Mandl carved the rearing Horse Tamer from Untersberg marble
- 3 fountains — Grand Baroque horse fountains this walk passes, a motif the film keeps dancing by