Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Vienna, Austria

The Volkstheater in Vienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the Hofburgtheater. It was erected according to designs by Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, who attempted to reconcile their plans with historicism. It is located in Neubau, the seventh district of Vienna.

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The Museumsquartier (MQ) is an area of 9 ha in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria.

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On Maria-Theresien-Platz between the Natural History Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, there are four Triton and Naiad fountains in addition to the central Maria Theresa Monument.

Wikipedia: Tritonen- und Najadenbrunnen (DE)

The Maria Theresa Memorial is one of the most important monuments of the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. It commemorates Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 to 1780. The monument stands since 1888 on the Maria-Theresien-Platz between the Art History Museum, which opened in 1891, and the Natural History Museum, which opened in 1889.

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Palais Epstein is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna, Austria. It was built for the industrialist and banker Gustav Ritter von Epstein. The architect was Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, who also designed the adjacent Austrian Parliament Building. Unlike traditional Baroque noble palaces in Vienna, Palais Epstein was built in the late 19th century and is therefore considered a Ringstraßenpalais. It is up to five storeys high and built in the neo-Renaissance style typical of its time.

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The Monument to the Executive is a monument to the executive employees killed in the line of duty and is located next to the Outer Castle Gate in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt. It was inaugurated in 2002 by Federal President Thomas Klestil.

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Heldenplatz is a public space in front of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. Located in the Innere Stadt borough, the President of Austria resides in the adjoining Hofburg wing, while the Federal Chancellery is on adjacent Ballhausplatz.

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The Ephesos Museum in Vienna displays antiquities from the city of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey. Begun in the late 19th century, the collection includes original works of sculpture and architecture, and belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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The Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library, also known as the Rainer Collection and Vienna Papyrus Collection, is a papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library at Hofburg palace in Vienna. It contains around 180,000 objects overall. It is one of the most significant collections in papyrology, containing writings documenting 3 millennia of the history of Egypt from 1500 BCE–1500 CE: Ancient Egypt, Hellenistic Egypt, Roman Egypt, and Egypt during Muslim rule. It includes a specialist library of around 19,500 books and journals as well. The Austrian National Library preserves and restores the stored papyri and facilitates scholarly research and publication based on these ancient documents.

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The Albrechtsbrunnen, also known as the Danubiusbrunnen, is a fountain in the 1st district of Vienna, the inner city. It is located on the Augustinian Bastion and bears its name after Field Marshal Archduke Albrecht of Austria-Teschen, who lived in the building of today's Albertina on the Bastion, the Palais Erzherzog Albrecht, at that time.

Wikipedia: Albrechtsbrunnen (Wien) (DE)

The memorial against war and fascism is a work by the Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka. It has been standing since 1988 on the Albertinaplatz in Vienna – named after Helmut Zilk in 2009 – opposite the Palais Archduke Albrecht and the back of the Vienna State Opera. As a walk-in monument, it is intended to serve as a reminder of the darkest epoch in Austrian history. It is dedicated to all victims of war and fascism.

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The Augustinian Church in Vienna is a parish church located on Josefsplatz, next to the Hofburg, the winter palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna. Originally built in the 14th century as the parish church of the imperial court of the Habsburgs, the harmonious Gothic interior was added in the 18th century. The official name of church and parish is St. Augustin, but it is locally called Augustinerkirche.

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The Jüdisches Museum Wien, trading as Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien GmbH or the Jewish Museum Vienna, is a museum of Jewish history, life and religion in Austria. The museum is present on two locations, in the Palais Eskeles in the Dorotheergasse and in the Judenplatz, and has distinguished itself by a very active programme of exhibitions and outreach events highlighting the past and present of Jewish culture in Austria. The current director is Barbara Staudinger and the chief curator is Astrid Peterle.

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The Palais Bartolotti-Partenfeld is a city-palace in central Vienna's 1st district, Inner City, on the corner of Graben and Dorotheergasse. It was originally built for the Bartolotti noble family and later bought by the Partenfeld family.

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The Plague Column, or Trinity Column, is a Holy Trinity column located on the Graben, a street in the inner city of Vienna, Austria. Erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679, the Baroque memorial is one of the best known and most prominent sculptural artworks in the city. Christine M. Boeckl, author of Images of Plague and Pestilence, calls it "one of the most ambitious and innovative sculptural ensembles created anywhere in Europe in the post-Bernini era."

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The Josefsbrunnen is a fountain on the west side of the plague column on the Graben in Vienna's 1st district of Innere Stadt. On the east side of the plague column is the Leopoldsbrunnen with very similar architecture and architectural history (48° 13′ N, 16° 22′ E). Both combined, they are often referred to as ditch wells in the literature.

Wikipedia: Josefsbrunnen (Graben) (DE)

The public convenience store on Graben in Vienna's 1st district of Innere Stadt is the city's first underground public utility facility and is a listed building. It is the last surviving public Art Nouveau toilet in Vienna.

Wikipedia: Öffentliche Bedürfnisanstalt am Graben (DE)

The Graben is one of the most famous squares in Vienna's first district, the city center. It begins at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz next to the Palais Equitable, and ends at the junction of Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben. Another street in the first district is called Tiefer Graben. It is crossed by Wipplinger Straße by means of the Hohe Brücke, a bridge about 10 meters (33 ft) above street level.

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The Vergilius Chapel is an underground crypt next to the Stephansdom in Vienna. It is rectangular in form, with six niches. Today, it lies approximately 12 meters beneath the Stephansplatz.

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The Stephansplatz is a square at the geographical centre of Vienna, Austria. It is named after its most prominent building, the Stephansdom, Vienna's cathedral and one of the tallest churches in the world. Before the 20th century, a row of houses separated Stephansplatz from Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, but since their destruction, the name Stephansplatz started to be used for the wider area covering both. To the west and south, respectively, run the exclusive shopping streets Graben and Kärntner Straße. Opposite the Stephansdom is the Haas-Haus, a piece of striking modern architecture by Hans Hollein. Although public opinion was originally skeptical about the combination of the mediaeval cathedral and the glass and steel building, it is now considered an example of how old and new architecture can mix harmoniously .

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The Mozarthaus Vienna was Mozart's residence from 1784 to 1787. The building is located in Vienna's Old Town, not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is his only surviving Viennese residence. It is now a museum.

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The Heiligenkreuzerhof is a courtyard ensemble in Vienna's city centre. It lies between Schönlaterngasse and Grashofgasse and is now surrounded by a complex of collegiate courtyard, prelature, chapel and apartment building. The two entrances at the other end of the building complex make it a passageway.

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The Jesuit Church, also known as the University Church, is a two-floor, double-tower church in Vienna, Austria. Influenced by early Baroque principles, the church was remodeled by Andrea Pozzo between 1703 and 1705. The Jesuit Church is located on Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz, immediately adjacent to the old University of Vienna buildings.

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The Barbara Church is the main church of the Greek Catholic Church in Austria, as well as the parish church of the Ukrainian Uniate Parish, a German-speaking Greek Catholic parish and central parish church for the other Byzantine believers in Austria. It is located in Postgasse in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.

Wikipedia: Barbarakirche (Wien) (DE)

The Dominican Church, also known as the Church of St. Maria Rotunda, is an early Baroque parish church and minor basilica in the historic center of Vienna, Austria. It is the third church built on the same site in the course of time.

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The Dominican Bastion was part of the Vienna city wall as a fortification. Today, a street created in its place in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, bears this name.

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The Simpl is a cabaret in Vienna-Innere Stadt, which opened in 1912 as the beer cabaret Simplicissimus. In the 1920s and 30s, he produced cabaret greats such as Fritz Grünbaum and Karl Farkas. The name, lettering and the red bulldog refer to the Munich satirical magazine Simplicissimus, founded in 1896.

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Porgy & Bess is a jazz club located at Riemergasse 11 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.

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Palais Coburg, also known as Palais Saxe-Coburg, is a palace in Vienna, Austria. It was owned by the Kohary branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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The Franciscan Church, also known as the Church of St. Jerome, is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Jerome and located in the historic city center of Vienna, Vienna's 1st district. It is the church of the Franciscan Order in Vienna.

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The Moses Fountain is a classicist fountain on Franziskanerplatz in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.

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The Imperial Crypt, also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632, and located on the Neuer Markt square of the Innere Stadt, near the Hofburg Palace. Since 1633, the Imperial Crypt serves as the principal place of entombment for the members of the House of Habsburg. The bones of 145 Habsburg royalty, plus urns containing the hearts or cremated remains of four others, are here, including 12 emperors and 18 empresses. The visible 107 metal sarcophagi and five heart urns range in style from puritan plain to exuberant rococo. Some of the dozen resident Capuchin friars continue their customary role as the guardians and caretakers of the crypt, along with their other pastoral work in Vienna. The most recent entombment was in 2023.

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The Capuchin Church in Vienna, Austria, is a Roman Catholic church and monastery run by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Located on the Neuer Markt square in the Innere Stadt near the Hofburg Palace, the Capuchin Church is most famous for containing the Imperial Crypt, the final resting place for members of the House of Habsburg. The official name is the Church of Saint Mary of the Angels.

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The Maltese Church is a Roman Catholic Gothic church of the Knights Hospitaller in Vienna, on Kärntner Straße in the 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt.

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The St. Ursula Church is a Roman Catholic church at Seilerstätte 26 in Vienna's 1st district of Innere Stadt.

Wikipedia: Sankt Ursula (Wien) (DE)

The Palais Erzherzog Carl is located in the 1st district of Vienna, Innere Stadt, Seilerstätte 30.

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The Widow of Sarepta Fountain is a fountain in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.

Wikipedia: Witwe-von-Sarepta-Brunnen (DE)

The Ronacher theater, originally Etablissement Ronacher, is a theater in the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, Austria.

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The Bird Bath Fountain or the Bird Bath in the part of the Vienna City Park located in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, is one of six fountains in this park.

Wikipedia: Vogeltränkebrunnen (DE)

The Bruckner Monument in Vienna's Stadtpark is a bronze bust depicting the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824–1896).

Wikipedia: Bruckner-Denkmal (Wiener Stadtpark) (DE)

The Schubert Monument, a statue in the Stadtpark in Vienna, Austria, is a memorial to the composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828), unveiled in 1872.

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The Minerva Fountain is a wall fountain located on the Stubenring in the inner city of Vienna.

Wikipedia: Minervabrunnen (Wien) (DE)

The Radetzky monument in front of the government building at Stubenring 1 in the Austrian capital Vienna is an equestrian statue from 1892 and dedicated to the probably most important military commander of the Austrian Empire, Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Radetzky von Radetz.

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The Zollamtssteg – a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists – crosses the Vienna River in Vienna just before it flows into the Danube Canal and connects the districts of Landstraße and Innere Stadt.

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The Kleine Marxerbrücke is a bridge over the Vienna River and connects the two Viennese districts of Innere Stadt and Landstraße.

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The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, completed in 1985, after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

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