• Remnants of one of the oldest lightning rods in the world, at the Narrenturm. The Narrenturm (Fool's Tower) in Vienna is continental Europe's oldest building...
  • Meaning “Fools’ Tower,” the Narrenturm was one of the first insane asylums ever built. Today the Narrenturm no longer holds mentally imbalanced Viennese...
  • Pathological-Anatomical Collection in the Narrenturm.
  • Today, the Narrenturm still has the same cells, barred doors and chains that used to restrain those living there, the mentally ill and the criminally insane.
  • The former insane asylum now houses one of the world's biggest collections of pathology and anatomy.
  • The aim of the Narrenturm was not so much treatment of its patient population, but rather protection of the general population from them.
  • If you are interested in pathology, anatomy and diseases, you should visit the Narrenturm.
    Bulunamadı: asylum
  • In the course of my research, I stumbled upon a picture of the Narrenturm and read that it has hardly changed since it stopped being an insane asylum in the 1850’s.
  • The Narrenturm (Fool’s Tower) c. 1992. The asylum was built during the reign of Joseph II (1764-1790).