The Pit, Protected art installation in Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See, Austria.

The Pit is an art installation featuring a funnel-shaped structure made of sandstone blocks that widens from a narrow base to a broad opening at the top. The blocks are arranged along a steep grass slope and create a geometric form that stands out distinctly within the surrounding landscape.

The Pit grew from a sandstone wine cellar over 200 years old. From the early 1970s, Peter Noever exposed the cellar vault's north end and moved its rear wall inward, creating an open, wind-protected room. On 2 April 2019 the Austrian Federal Monuments Office placed the whole ensemble under monument protection, citing its singularity.

The name "Die Grube" refers to the pit itself, a grass cone open to the sky where visitors sit on sandstone blocks. Since 2019 the site has been a protected monument, and it hosts public events such as the 2022 Heritage Day "Art glows in between" with interventions by Valie Export and others.

The Pit lies in Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See, at coordinates 47.95184, 16.72602, on the site of a sandstone wine cellar whose vault was opened to the north. The grass slope of the funnel is steeper than 50 degrees, so footing is unsure; sandstone benches and tables in the sheltered vault and blocks at the bottom of the cone give places to sit.

The open-air double toilet on the site was called the "most elegant outdoor toilet of all time" by an architecture critic. Elsewhere stand 36 concrete cubes with trees growing from their open centres, and a concrete fragment tied to Rudolph M. Schindler. The whole ensemble was placed under monument protection on 2 April 2019.