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The Stock im Eisen (German: staff in iron) is the midsection of a tree-trunk from the Middle Ages, a so-called nail-tree (''Nagelbaum''), into which hundreds of nails have been pounded for good luck over centuries. It is located in Vienna, Austria, in Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, now part of Stephansplatz, at the corner of the Graben and Kärntner Straße and is now behind glass on a corner of the Palais Equitable. ==History== The trunk section is tall and is held in place by five iron bands; the iron bears the date 1575〔Peter Csendes, ''Historical Dictionary of Vienna'', Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 1999, ISBN 0-8108-3562-2, (p. 191 ).〕 and the initials HB, presumably for Hans Buettinger, the house owner who had the iron replaced. The tree was a forked spruce which started to grow around 1400 and was felled in approximately 1440,〔Felix and Helga Czeike, ''Wien: Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte der Donaumetropole'', Cologne: DuMont, 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4348-5, (p. 99 ) (German).〕 as was revealed by examination in 1975.〔Péter Csendes and Ferdinand Opll, ''Wien'' volume 1: ''Von den Anfängen bis zur ersten Wiener Türkenbelagerung (1529)'', Vienna: Böhlau, 2001, ISBN 3-205-99266-0, ( p. 93 ).〕 There was regrowth in the middle of the trunk after blows from an axe. The first nails were inserted while the tree was still alive (thus before 1440).〔 The first written mention of it dates to 1533;〔〔Michael Diers, Andreas Beyer, ''Mo(nu)mente: Formen und Funktionen ephemerer Denkmäler'', Berlin: Akademie, 1993, ISBN 3-05-002354-6, (p. 115 ) (German).〕 in 1548 it was already located on the wall of a house in what became Stock-im-Eisen-Platz. The Palais Equitable, which was built on the site in 1891, incorporates the Stock im Eisen in a niche. It stands on a base made of Czech hornblende granite. Wrought iron vines were added, and the building has ''Zum Stock-im-Eisen'' (At the Stock im Eisen) carved above the door and a bronze sculpture group of locksmith apprentices and the tree trunk, by Rudolf Weyr, in the tympanum.〔Eve Marie Young, ''Art and Enterprise: The 19th Century Administrative Buildings of a U.S. Life Insurance Company: With Particular Consideration of the Vienna, Austria, building known as "zum Stock in Eisen"'', Dissertation, University of Bonn, 1991, (pp. 137, 140 ).〕 In addition there are a pair of representations of the legend by the same artist on the doors.〔 File:BERMANN(1880) p0852 Der Stock im Eisen.jpg|Illustration from Bermann ''Alt- und Neu-Wien'' (1880) File:Stock im Eisen 002.jpg|Another view of the Stock im Eisen today File:Stock im Eisen Relief 001.jpg|One of the reliefs on the door of the Palais Equitable illustrating the legend of the Stock im Eisen File:Stock im Eisen Relief 002.jpg|Second relief illustrating the legend 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stock im Eisen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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