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0 Österreichisches dome that is visible from afar.
Museum für Urania, named after the Greek
Ange wandte Kunst muse, was built in 1910 to
designs by Max Fabian. It is
Stubenring 5. Map 3 D4. Tel 712 80 home to Vienna’s oldest
00. v 2. @ 1A, 74A. % Stubentor, educational establishment
Landstrasse. < Landstrasse. Open that is not a school. Inside the
10am–10pm Tue, 10am–6pm Wed– building are lecture halls and
Sun. & Admission free Tue. a theatre for visiting theatre
∑ mak.at performances as well as a
resident puppet theatre; it is
The Austrian Museum of Applied also home to a cinema and
Arts (MAK), founded in 1864, a planetarium. Every year,
the first of its kind in Europe, Urania holds a symposium
exercised a strong influence on devoted to the outstanding
the development of the applied Austrian writer and Nobel
arts for some time. It houses the prize winner, Elias Canetti. Striking ivy-clad façade of Ruprechtskirche,
archives and collections of the Vienna’s oldest church
Wiener Werkstätte – workshops
famous for their promotion of w Schwedenplatz e Ruprechtskirche
good design. Map 3 D3. % Schwedenplatz. Ruprechtsplatz. Map 2 C3. Tel 53 56
The building was designed 003. % Schwedenplatz. @ 1A, 2A,
by one of the Ring architects, Schwedenplatz, the Swedish 3A. v 1, 2, N. 5 9pm–midnight Fri
Heinrich von Ferstel, in Florentine Square, is one of Vienna’s busiest (German), 5pm Sat (German), 11am
Renaissance style. A new wing spots. Here, on the banks of the Sun (Arabic). ∑ ruprechtskirche.at
was added in 1909, and in Danube Canal, under Schweden-
1994 the Arenbergpark flak brücke, is a landing stage with The church of St Ruprecht,
tower became an annexe of riverboats inviting visitors on to rising on an escarpment
the museum. Each room is a variety of pleasure cruises. overlooking Ruprechtsplatz,
unique, designed by a different Eissalon am Schwedenplatz, is Vienna’s oldest church. At
artist, thus creating a fine setting another attraction, awaits at one time, an arm of the Danube
for the items on display. No. 17 (near Franz Josefs-Kai): flowed nearby with a landing
The eclectic permanent it is reputed to sell the best ice stage for salt transported from
collection includes glass, pottery, cream in Vienna. Salzburg. According to legend,
porcelain, jewellery, metalwork, In Laurenzberg, on one side of the church was founded in 740
furniture, textiles, Eastern Schwedenplatz, remains of the by disciples of the Salzburg
carpets and decorative items old town wall can be seen, with a bishop, St Ruprecht, patron
from the Far East. Separate metal ring that was used to tie up saint of salt merchants. The
rooms are devoted to the horses and an old sign with traffic Romanesque nave and three
Secession period. regulations. At Fleischmarkt 11, lower floors of the tower date
steep, narrow steps lead from the 11th century. In the
down to the wine bar of choir is a 12th-century stained-
Griechenbeisl, which claims glass window, Vienna’s oldest,
to be the oldest restaurant depicting the Crucifixion and
in the city. Visitors are the Virgin Mary on the throne.
welcomed by a board
showing the Lieber
Augustin; from the r Jewish Quarter
entrance hall you can see Map 2 C2, 3. % Schwedenplatz,
Biedermeier-style sofa, MAK down to a small, illuminated Herrengasse. @ 1A, 2A, 3A. Jewish
cellar where his statue is on Museum: Palais Eskeles, Dorotheergasse
display. The story of Augustin, a 11. Tel 535 04 31. % Stephansplatz.
q Urania piper, goes back to the times of Open 10am–6pm Sun–Fri. &
the Great Plague in Vienna. In a Museum Judenplatz: Misrachi-Haus,
Uraniastrasse 1. Map 3 E3. v 1, 2, N.
% Schwedenplatz. Planetarium: drunken stupor, he slumped into Judenplatz 8. % Schwedenplatz,
Tel 89 174 150 000. Open Term time: the gutter. When undertakers Herrengasse. Open 10am–6pm Sun–
9am–8pm, 2–8pm Sat, Sun; school mistook him for dead and threw Thu, 10am–2pm Fri. &
holidays: 9am–4pm Mon–Fri, 2–8pm him into a plague pit, he woke up
Sat, Sun. ∑ urania-sternwarte.at and terrified them by singing: A tangle of narrow streets west
O du lieber Augustin… (Oh, dear of Rotenturmstrasse makes up
On the south side of Julius- Augustin). Miraculously, he the earliest Jewish quarter in
Raab-Platz, on the banks of the survived, and today, tourists Vienna. Today, the Jewish
Danube Canal, stands a round wishing to return to Vienna quarter is a busy area of
building with a distinctive throw a coin into the cellar. discothèques, bars and kosher
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp292–3 and pp310–12

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