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Hungarian Grey with herdsman at the former slaughterhouse site in St. Marx, Vienna. The listed main gate to the former slaughterhouse grounds is flanked by two monumental bull figures. The stone bulls were created by sculptor Anton Schmidgruber and date from 1883.

As the largest slaughterhouse in Vienna, the Sankt Marx slaughterhouse in Vienna’s 3rd district was important for the city’s meat supply. It mainly slaughtered cattle as well as young and standing cattle. Initially, slaughtering in Vienna took place mainly on bridges that led across the Danube Canal. There, blood and slaughterhouse waste could be easily disposed of. Sankt Marx in the east of the city was chosen as the location for the municipal slaughterhouse mainly because the cattle came mainly from Hungary. The slaughterhouse was built between 1846 and 1848, but was not put into operation until 1851 after the revolution in the Empire of Austria.