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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. &
∑ 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. It illus trates the
lives of its first settlers and life in
the Roman camp of Vindobona,
and it chronicles the threat
from Turkish invaders and the
subse quent rise of Vienna to
the magnificent capital of a
great empire.
The museum has collections
of memorabilia of many of
Vienna’s famous citizens. Perhaps
the most interesting of these
are the reconstructed apart­
ments of the writer Franz
Grillparzer (1791–1872) and
the architect Adolf Loos
(1870–1933).
e Schwarzenberg­
platz Fountain and Soviet Monument at Schwarzenbergplatz
Map 5 E1. % Karlsplatz. v 71. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt along the Wien River, runs
@ 4A. and altered by the Fischer von an attractive promenade
Erlachs, Johann Bernhard and designed in Secession style by
The elongated Schwarzenberg Joseph Emanuel. One wing Friedrich Ohmann. It includes
Square, one of the city’s grand est houses the Swiss Embassy and several magnificent portals,
spaces, is best seen from the there are plans for a casino in part of a project to regulate the
Ringstrasse, from where several the rest of the palace. flow of the Wien river, as well as
important structures come into several pavilions, bridges and
view together. In the fore ground stone playgrounds.
is the equestrian statue of Prince r Stadtpark
Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzen­ Map 3 D5. % Stadtpark, Stubentor,
berg, who commanded the Landstrasse–Wien Mitte. < Wien
Austrian and allied armies in the Mitte. v 2. @ 3A, 74A.
Battle of Leipzig in 1813 against
the French army under Napoleon. On the Weihburggasse side
The Hochstrahlbrunnen (high of the municipal park stands
jet fountain) was built in 1873 to one of the most photographed
mark the connection of Vienna’s sights in Vienna, the gilded
first Alpine water supply. The statue of the King of Waltz,
fountain is floodlit in summer. Johann Strauss the Younger.
Once the focal point of the It was designed by Edmund
square, it now partly obscures the Hellmer in the Neo­Romantic
heroic­style Soviet monument to style of the 1920s. The park,
the Red Army that comme mor­ opened in 1862, also contains
ates the Russian liberation of the statues of the composers
Vienna. Beyond the Russian Franz Schubert and Franz Lehár,
monument, the beautiful the painter Hans Makart and
Schwarzenberg Palace can be portraitist Friedrich von Amerling. A Secession-style portal in the Stadtpark,
seen. It was built in 1697 by Parallel to the Ringstrasse, built in 1903–04

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