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The
Tegetthoff
monument
in
Vienna
was
designed
by
Carl
Kundmann
(statue)
and
Carl
von
Hasenauer
(architecture)
and
is
reminiscent
of
Wilhelm
von
Tegetthoff
,
Vice
Admiral
and
commander
of
the
Austrian
and
Austro-Hungarian
Navy
in
the
1860s.
It
is
unveiled
on
September
21,
1886,
on
the
Praterstern
at
the
end
of
the
Praterstrasse
in
the
2nd
district
of
Vienna,
Leopoldstadt
,
on
one
of
the
most
important
traffic
junctions
of
the
city
of
Vienna.
On
an
approximately
5
m
high,
surrounded
by
fighting
horses
pedestal
is
a
11
m
high
marble
column,
decorated
with
an
anchor
and
laterally
with
three
bronze
ship's
beaks.
On
the
pillar,
the
3.5
m
high,
bronze
statue
of
the
Admiral
attached.
Planning
for
the
monument
had
begun
in
Tegetthoff's
death
year
in
1871,
but
no
agreement
was
reached
on
the
location
for
a
long
time.
In
1872,
a
competition
was
announced
in
which
the
Swiss
sculptor
Ferdinand
SchlĂśth
was
awarded
first
prize.
However,
this
design
encountered
resistance
and
was
ultimately
not
realized.
The
location
that
was
ultimately
chosen
guaranteed
the
maximum
pedestrian
frequency
thanks
to
the
neighboring
Nordbahnhof
,
the
then
most
important
railway
station
in
Vienna,
and
the
nearby
Wurstelprater,
the
city's
large
amusement
park.
The
monument
was
20
years
after
Tegetthoff
great
success,
winning
the
Battle
of
Lissa,
in
the
presence
of
Emperor
Franz
Joseph
I.
unveiled.
From
2016
to
2018,
the
monument
was
restored,
the
budget
for
it
was
897,000
euros.
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