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SOUTH OF THE RING 101
w Wien Museum
Karlsplatz
Karlsplatz 8. Map 5 D1. Tel 50 58 747.
% Karlsplatz. v 1, 2, 62, 71, D. @ 2A,
4A, 59A. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun &
hols. Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec. &
(free first Sun of every month and for
under 19s). 7 ∑ wienmuseum.at
Visitors to the Historical Museum
of the City of Vienna are greeted
by a vast model of the city from
the era when the Ringstrasse
was developed. The exhibition
covers nearly 3,000 years of
urban history, illustrating the
lives of its first settlers; life in the
Roman camp of Vindobona; the
threat from Turkish invaders; Fountain and Soviet Monument at Schwarzenbergplatz
and the subse quent rise of
Vienna to the magnificent Palace can be seen. It was built style of the 1920s. The park,
capital of a great empire. in 1697 by Johann Lukas von opened in 1862, also contains
The museum has collections Hildebrandt and altered by statues of the composers
of memorabilia of many of the Fischer von Erlachs, Johann Franz Schubert and Franz
Vienna’s famous citizens. Perhaps Bernhard and Joseph Emanuel. Lehár, the painter Hans
the most interesting of these One wing houses the Swiss Makart and portraitist Friedrich
are the reconstructed apart Embassy but most of the von Amerling. Parallel to the
ments of the writer Franz building remains closed Ringstrasse, along the Wien
Grillparzer (1791–1872) and the awaiting further development. river, runs an attractive
architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933). promenade designed in
Secession style by Friedrich
r Stadtpark Ohmann. It includes several
e Schwarzenberg Map 3 D5. % Stadtpark, Stubentor, magnificent portals, part of
platz Landstrasse–Wien Mitte. < Wien a project to regulate the
Mitte. v 2. @ 3A, 74A. flow of the Wien river, as well
Map 5 E1. % Karlsplatz. v 71. as several pavilions, bridges
@ 4A. On the Weihburggasse side and stone playgrounds.
of the municipal park stands
The elongated Schwarzenberg one of the most photographed
Square, one of the city’s grand sights in Vienna, the gilded t 21er Haus
est spaces, is best seen from statue of the King of Waltz, Arsenalstrasse 1. Map 5 F5.
the Ringstrasse, from where Johann Strauss the Younger. Tel 795 57 770. v 18, O. @ 69A.
several important structures It was designed by Edmund Open 11am–6pm Thu–Sun (until
come into view together. In Hellmer in the NeoRomantic 9pm Wed). & 8 - 7
the fore ground is an equestrian ∑ 21erhaus.at
statue of Prince Karl Philipp
Fürst zu Schwarzen berg, who At the south end of the
commanded the Austrian and Belvedere (see pp102–3), not
allied armies in the Battle of far from the Military Museum,
Leipzig in 1813 against the is Vienna’s temple to contem
French army under Napoleon. porary art: the 21er Haus.
The Hochstrahlbrunnen Built of steel and glass, the
(high jet fountain) was built in museum is an example of
1873 to mark the connection modernist architecture and
of Vienna’s first Alpine water was originally designed for
supply. The fountain is floodlit the World Exhibition in 1958.
in summer. Once the focal point Reopened in 2011 as a modern
of the square, it now partly and contemporary art gallery,
obscures the heroicstyle Soviet the 21er Haus celebrates
monument to the Red Army Austrian art from 1945 to the
that comme mor ates the present day, with changing
Russian liberation of Vienna. exhibitions, performance art,
Beyond the Russian monument, Gilded statue of composer Johann Strauss lectures and a sculpture
the beautiful Schwarzenberg the Younger in Stadtpark garden in the courtyard.
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