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6 Naschmarkt
Map 4 C1. % Kettenbrückengasse,
Pilgramgasse. @ 59A. Open 6am–
7pm Mon–Fri, 6am–5pm Sat.
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 particularly popular.
Nearby, at Kettenbrückengasse
No. 6, is the simple apartment
where the composer 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
style. No. 38 has sparkling gilt
Façade of the Secession Building, with its golden filigree dome ornament, mostly by Koloman
Moser. No. 40 is known as
filigree globe of entwined laurel same opera, was the theatre’s Majolikahaus, after the glazed
leaves on the roof, is a squat first director. The premiere of pottery used to weather­proof
cube with four towers. Gustav Beethoven’s Fidelio was staged the walls. Its façade has subtle
Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze (1902) is here in 1805, and for a while flower patterns in pink, blue
its best known exhibit. Designed the composer lived in the and green, and even the sills
as a decorative painting running theatre. Many plays by promi­ are moulded and 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 dedicated to many years as a venue for v 1, 2, 62, 71, D. @ 2A, 4A, 59A.
showing contemporary and musicals, the Theater an der
experimental Austrian and Wien now stages only opera. Vienna’s Technical University
international art. has a Neo­Classical façade,
beautiful colonnades and attic
5 Theater an statues by Joseph Klieber. It
der Wien was built in 1816 by Joseph
Schemerl von Leytenbach,
Linke Wienzeile 6. Map 4 C1. to 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 univer­
The “Theatre on the Wien 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 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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