Brunnenmarkt

This guide to Brunnenmarkt in Vienna traces a market that vendors built from wood and tore down again every night for over a hundred years, back to its start in 1786 around a fountain that Emperor Joseph the Second let traders set up beside. You'll hear how the fountain itself vanished for a tram line while the market stayed, how stalls passed down through Austrian, Polish and Czech families for generations, and why that chain of inheritance broke in the 1980s and 90s. Listen for the mix of languages the stalls speak in today.