Fountain in the Trinkhalle building

Between 1950 and 1951, the middle part of the Trinkhalle building was redesigned. In that middle part, there had been a wide niche where the Klebelsberg Salt Spring had been available for spa treatments since 1907.

The niche, now forming five sides of an octagon in the floor plan, was given a wall structure with blind arches and a new center: a free-standing fountain made of red “marble”, from which the now available medicinal waters flowed. The medicinal waters: the Salzberg Sulfur Spring, the Marie-Louisens-Spring (inscriptions on the walls), and the apparently unnamed Glauber’s Salt Spring. The new, elegant fountain, made of wonderful Untersberg marble, placed in a tasteful frame [sic], was designed by architect Franz Windhager, who designed the new Ischl rectory in 1937 and was commissioned to build the parish church in Pfandl in 1956.

With a stylized staff of Asclepius on its shaft, the fountain is crowned with a metal globe, from which normal drinking water probably flowed into the upper basin and poured over four gargoyles into the lower basin. For the healing water, two metal taps on the shaft between the basins were used.

 A colored plaster relief of the Wirer coat of arms was attached to the front of the niche above the arches in 1951.

A condition for the monument office's approval of the fountain’s renovation in 2007 was its re-installation. The restored fountain was not re-erected until the beginning of 2024.