Linz - Landhaus

The Landhaus (seat of the provincial government of Upper Austria), to the southwest of the Linz Hauptplatz, was built in 1564-71 on the site of an earlier Monorite convent and rebuilt after a fire in the early 19th C. The magnificent doorway bears the coats of arms of the original Austrian provinces. The center-piece of the fine arcaded courtyard, in which serenaded concerts are given, is the octagonal Planet Fountain (1582). The astronomer Kepler (1571-1630) taught from 1612 to 1626 in the college which then occupied the building.