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3 Maria-Treu-Kirche 7 Spittelberg first immigrant boutiques, all of which
Jodok-Fink-Platz. Map 1 B5. Tel 40504 Pedestrian Area worker district. Its keep the cobbled
25. % Rathaus. @ 13A. v 2. Map 3 B1. % Volkstheater. Amerling­ inhabitants were streets buzzing into the
Open for services and by appoint- haus: Open 2–10pm Mon–Fri. Market: mainly craftsmen, early hours. It hosts a
ment. ∑ mariatreu.at Open Apr–Jun & Sep–Nov: 10am–6pm merchants and Christmas market,
Sat; Jul & Aug: 2–9pm Sat. 7 servants from and a regular arts
Overlooking Jodok-Fink-Platz Croatia and Façade detail at No. 20 and crafts market
and flanked by monastic Spittelberg is the oldest and Hungary, brought Spittelberggasse from April to
buildings stands the Church most colourful part of the to work in the court. November. The
of Maria Treu. Originally district. In the 17th century, The charming area was Amerlinghaus theatre at No. 8
designed by Johann Lukas von the cluster of streets between rediscovered in the 1970s and Stiftgasse serves as the area’s
Hildebrandt in 1716, and later Siebensterngasse and the city authorities restored cultural and community centre
altered by Matthias Gerl in the Burggasse, and around the buildings. Today, it is a and provides a venue for
1750s, the church didn’t acquire Spittelberggasse, was Vienna’s district of restaurants, cafés and exhibitions and events.
its present form until the 19th
century, when the elegant twin The façade of the Theater in der Josefstadt
towers were added.
Inside, there is a splendid, illustrious history. Founded in Originally built for Count
vibrant Baroque frescoed ceiling 1788, it was rebuilt by Joseph Johann Leopold Donat
(1752–3) by the great Austrian Kornhäusel (see p86) in 1822, Trautson, who was in the
painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch. and has been in operation ever service of Joseph I, the palace
A chapel immediately to the since, accommodating ballet, was acquired in 1760 by Maria
left of the choir contains an opera and theatre performances. Theresa (see pp30–31). She
altarpiece with a Crucifixion Beethoven composed his donated it to the Royal
dating from about 1774, also overture The Consecration of Hungarian Bodyguard that she
painted by Maulbertsch. the House for the reopening of had founded. It has housed the No. 10 Stiftgasse has a handsome
Directly in front of the the theatre after its renovation, Ministry of Justice since 1961, The Amerlinghaus at No. 8 Stiftgasse façade, decorated with statues.
church and rising up from conducting it himself at the so there is no public access to was the birthplace of the painter Friedrich
the square is a Baroque pillar reopening gala. In 1924, the the interior. Amerling. Today it is a cultural centre,
topped with a statue of the director Max Reinhardt theatre and Beisl (see p201).
Madonna, attended beneath supervised its further restoration, 6 Sankt-Ulrichs-
by statues of saints and angels. and introduced an ambitious
Like many such columns in modern repertoire of comedy, Platz
Vienna, it commemorates classic plays and musicals. Between Neustiftgasse and Burggasse. B U R G G A S S E
delivery from a plague, in this Map 3 B1. % Volkstheater. @ 48A.
case the epidemic of 1713. Ulrichskirche (St Ulrich’s Church):
5 Trautson Palace Tel 523124610. Open for services only. S E
Museumstrasse 7. Map 3 B1. % ∑ stulrich.com Nos. 18 and 20 S C H R A N K G A S S E A S
Volkstheater. Closed to the public. Spittelberg- G
This tiny sloping square is gasse are fine R G E
Set back from the street next an exquisite remnant of early examples of E S S
to the Volkstheater is this Vienna. The dainty Baroque Baroque L B A
elegant Baroque palace, house at No. 27 is worth houses. T E G G E
designed in 1710 by Johann taking the time to see, and I T E R S S No. 29
Bernhard Fischer von Erlach adjoining it is a Renaissance S P B A Gutenberggasse
(see p149). Most Viennese house that escaped E N G G is a delightfully
palaces have flat fronts but destruction by the Turks T E R pretty Biedermeier
on this one the central bays during the sieges, most G U B building.
of the façade jut out. Nor is probably because the Turkish C H
there anything restrained commander Kara Mustafa I R
Ceiling frescoes above the altar in the about the ornamentation: pitched his own tent nearby. K
Maria-Treu-Kirche above the cornice and This house partly obscures
pediment is one of the largest the façade of the Baroque
4 Theater in der collections of statuary atop any Ulrichskirche, built by Josef
Josefstadt palace in the whole of Vienna. Reymund in 1721–4. The
This includes a large statue composer Christoph Willibald S I E B E N S T E R N G A S S E
Josefstädter Strasse 26. Map 1 B5. of Apollo playing the lyre. Gluck was married here and
Tel 427000-300. % Rathaus. @ 13A. Passing through the entrance Johann Strauss the Younger
v 2. Open for performances. you will see on the left an was christened.
∑ josefstadt.org immense staircase, with Handsome patrician houses Spittelberggasse is the venue The Witwe Bolte restaurant No. 9 Spittelberggasse is a
carvings of bearded giants encircle it, of which the for an arts and crafts market held used to be an inn in the beautifully decorated house,
This intimate theatre (see p230), bearing its weight, by the Italian prettiest is No. 2, the Schulhaus. every Saturday from April to 18th century; legend has it with skilfully painted trompe
one of the oldest still standing sculptor Giovanni Giuliani. This Elaborately decorated, it dates November, and daily during that Emperor Joseph II was l’oeil windows, dating from the
in Vienna, has enjoyed an leads to the ceremonial hall. from the mid-18th century. Easter and Christmas. thrown out of here in 1778. 18th century.

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