!!!Narrenturm

Narrenturm ("Fools´ Tower"), name of a mental institution built 
by Emperor Joseph II as a part of Vienna´s general hospital 
in 1784. It is a circular, five-storey building, due to its shape also 
popularly called "Emperor Joseph´s gugelhupf" (a cake baked in a 
fluted mould). From 1865 it was administered by the Lower Austrian 
government and later used partly as a storage depot, partly as a 
residential tower; since 1971 it has harboured the  
Pathological-Anatomical Museum.

!Literature
J. Koehle, Der Narrenturm in Wien oder das Paradigma des 
Wahnsinns, 1991.


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