Ankeruhr
Art Nouveau bridge clock with a slow parade of historical figures crossing hourly, all twelve together at noon.
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This guide to the Ankeruhr at Hoher Markt in Vienna traces the clock's design by Franz Matsch, once Gustav Klimt's studio partner, commissioned by an insurance company that wanted Viennese passersby reminded of their own mortality. You'll hear about the sun, the child with a butterfly and the skull built into the design when it was finished in 1914, and who the parade of figures crossing the bridge is meant to represent. Time your visit to catch a figure sliding across on the hour.
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