!!!Hetztheater

Baiting Ring (Hetztheater, Hetzamphitheater, Theater unter den 
Weissgerbern). In 1708 the first baiting ring was built in the 
Leopoldstadt district of Vienna; 1736-1743 a baiting ring was built on 
the Landstrasse (Vienna´s 3%%sup rd/%  district) by the imperial 
court engineer A. Galli-Bibiena and the court sculptor Antonio 
Corradini; 1755 a wooden amphitheatre, seating 3,000 people, with 3 
galleries was built in Vienna´s 3%%sup rd/%  district, 1770 
bought by the imperial theatre management authority and rented out, 
burnt down in 1796. Emperor Franz II later banned animal baiting 
and the baiting ring was not rebuilt.

!Literature
L. Tatzer, Das k. k. privilegierte Hetzamphitheater 
unter den Weissgerbern, in: Wiener Schriften 30, 1969; Das 
Hetzhaus in Wien, in: T. Zacharias, J. E. Fischer von Erlach, 
1960.


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