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NarrenturmNarrenturm ("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. Köhle, Der Narrenturm in Wien oder das Paradigma des Wahnsinns, 1991.
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