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6 Naschmarkt
Map 4 C1. Tel 400 005 430. %
Kettenbrückengasse, Pilgramgasse.
@ 59A. Open 6am–7pm Mon–Fri,
6am–5pm Sat. ∑ naschmarkt-
vienna.com. Schubert Memorial
Apartment: Tel 58 16 730. Open
10am–1pm, 2pm–6pm Wed & Thu.
Closed 1 Jan, 1 May & 25 Dec. &
The Naschmarkt is Vienna’s
liveliest market, selling all types
of market goods as well as
delicatessen food. The weekly
Saturday flea market is popular.
Nearby, at Kettenbrückengasse
No. 6, is the Schubert Memorial
Apartment, where the comp­
oser Franz Schubert died in
1828. It displays facsimiles, prints
and a piano.
Overlooking Naschmarkt, at
Linke Wienzeile Nos. 38 and 40,
are two remarkable apartment
blocks. Designed by Otto
Wagner in 1899, and known as
the Wagner Apartments, they
represent the peak of Jugendstil
Façade of the Secession Building, with its golden filigree dome style. No. 38 has gilt ornament,
mostly by Koloman Moser.
filigree globe of entwined laurel opera, was the theatre’s first No. 40 is known as Majolikahaus,
leaves on the roof, is a squat director. The premiere of after the glazed pottery used
cube with four towers. Gustav Beethoven’s Fidelio was staged to weather­proof the walls. Its
Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze (1902) is here in 1805, and for a while façade has subtle flower patterns
its best known exhibit. Designed the composer lived in the in pink, blue and green; even
as a decorative painting running theatre. Many plays by promi­ the sills are decorated.
along three walls, it shows nent playwrights such as Kleist,
interrelated groups of figures Grillparzer and Nestroy, and 7 Technische
thought to be a commentary many Viennese operettas were Universität
on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. premiered here, too, including
The Secession Building is works by Johann Strauss (son), Karlsplatz 13. Map 5 D1.
Vienna’s oldest independent Zeller, Lehár and Kalman. After Tel 588 01–0. % Karlsplatz.
exhibition space. Owned by many years as a venue for v 1, 2, 62, 71, D. @ 2A, 4A, 59A.
the Austrian Association of musicals, the Theater an der
Visual Artists, it favours shows Wien now stages only opera. Vienna’s Technical University
of experimental works. has a Neo­Classical façade,
beautiful colonnades and roof­
5 Theater an top statues by Joseph Klieber. It
der Wien was built in 1816 by Joseph
Schemerl von Leytenbach, to
Linke Wienzeile 6. Map 4 C1. the designs of the Imperial
Tel 58 83 06 65/58 885 (tickets). Office of Public Works. Klieber
% Kettenbrückengasse. @ 59A. also created the eight stone
∑ theater-wien.at heads flanking the main
entrance, featuring some of the
The “Theatre on the Wien univer sity’s famous professors.
River”, one of the oldest theatres Inside, the most beautiful
in Vienna, was founded by room is the Assembly Hall,
Emanuel Schikaneder. A statue with carved wall panelling.
above the entrance shows The University fronts on
him playing Papageno in the to Resselpark, which contains
premiere of Mozart’s The Magic many busts and statues of
Flute. Schikaneder, who had The Neo-Classical entrance to the Austria’s most important
written the libretto for this Theater an der Wien scientists and engineers.

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