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w Neues Rathaus feature is the lofty loggia with A spacious arcaded courtyard,
its delicate tracery and curved lined with busts of the
Friedrich­Schmidt­Platz 1. Map 1 B5 &
5 A2. Tel 52550. % Rathaus. v D, 1, balconies. Around all four sides university’s most distinguished
71. Open for 8 1pm Mon, Wed & Fri are Neo­Gothic arcades and professors, is located in the
& through phone bookings for groups. statues of Austrian worthies. centre of the building. Among
∑ wien.gv.at Inside, at the top of the first the figures on display include
of two grand staircases is the the founder of psychoanalysis
The new town hall is the seat Festsaal, a ceremonial hall that Sigmund Freud (see p112) and
of the Vienna City and Provincial stretches the length of the the philosopher Franz Brentano.
Assembly. Built from 1872 to building. In front is the wide Nearby are the smoke-filled and
1883 to replace the Altes Rathaus Rathausplatz Park and there are poster-daubed corridors of
(see p87), it is unasham edly Neo­ also several courtyards, one of today’s university students.
Gothic in style. The architect, which is the venue for concerts.
Friedrich von Schmidt, was
chosen by the authorities in a e Dreifaltigkeits- t Café Landtmann
competition for the best design. Universitätsring 4. Map 1 C5 & 5 B2.
A huge central tower, 100 m kirche Tel 24100100. % Schottentor, Her-
(325 ft) high and topped by Alser Strasse 17. Map 1 B4. ren gasse. v D, 1, 71. Open 7am– One of the arcades surrounding the university courtyard
the 3­m (11­ft) statue of a Tel 4057225. % Rathaus. The 16th-century Crucifix that hangs in the midnight daily. 7 ∑ landtmann.at
knight in armour with a lance, v 43, 44. Open 8–11:30am Mon– Dreifaltigkeitskirche u Mölker-Bastei its original owner, Baron
dominates the front façade. Sat, 8am–noon Sun. 7 entrance If the Café Central (see p60) is the Map 1 C5 & 5 B2. % Schottentor. Johann von Pasqualati, it was
Known affectionately as the on Schlösselgasse for services. Martino Altomonte, and a coffee house of Vienna’s intel li- v D, 1, 71. Beethoven’s home between
Rathausmann, the figure was graphic Crucifix from the gent sia, this café (see p60) is surely 1804 and 1808, and from 1810
designed by Franz Gastell and Built between 1685 and 1727, workshop of Veit Stoss in the the coffee house of the affluent A few paces away from the to 1815. He composed many
made by the wrought­iron the Church of the Holy Trinity south aisle. It was to this church middle classes. Established in bustling Schottentor is the of his best-loved works here,
craftsman Alexander Nehr. contains an altarpiece (1708) in that Beethoven’s body was 1873 by coffee-maker Franz quiet street of Mölker-Bastei, including Symphonies 4, 5, 7
The building’s most attractive the north aisle by the painter brought after he died in 1827. Landtmann, it was Sigmund built on a former and 8, the opera Fidelio,
Following the funeral service, Freud’s (see p112) favourite bastion of the city Piano Concerto No. 4, and
which was attended by many of coffee house, and is still very walls. It boasts string quartets. Today,
his contemporaries, including popular. The walls are adorned some beautiful the rooms on the
Schubert and the poet Franz with mirrors and elegant late 18th-century fourth floor which the
Grillparzer, the cortege bore panelling, creating an attractive houses. Beethoven composer occupied
his coffin to the cemetery at setting for a cup of coffee. lived here, and the house a small museum.
Währing on the city’s outskirts. Emperor Franz Various memorabilia,
Joseph nearly met his such as a lock of
death on the bastion Plaque on the front of Beethoven’s hair, a
r University in 1853 when a tailor the Pasqualatihaus photograph of his
attempted to grave at Währing
Universitätsring 1. Map 1 C4 & 5 A2. Tel assassinate him. No. 10 is the cemetery, a deathbed engraving
42770. % Schottentor. Open 6:30am– and early editions of his scores
8:30pm Mon–Fri, 8am–1pm Sat. 7 house where the Belgian Prince
8 6pm Thu (in German), 11:30am Sat Charles de Ligne lived during the are on display. The museum also
(in English). ∑ univie.ac.at Congress of Vienna in 1815 (see contains busts and paintings of
p32). De Ligne wrote several Beethoven and his patron Prince
Founded in 1365 by Duke cynical commentaries on the Rasumofsky, the Russian
Rudolf IV, the University of activities of the crowned heads ambassador to Vienna.
Vienna now has over 90,000 The attractive Dreimäderlhaus (left) on of Europe who came to Vienna
students. The versatile architect Schreyvogelgasse at that time. A ladies’ man, he
Heinrich Ferstel designed its caught a fatal chill while waiting
present home in 1883, adopting y Dreimäderlhaus for an assignation on the bastion.
an Italian Renaissance style. Schreyvogelgasse 10. Map 1 C5 & 5
From the entrance hall, B2. % Schottentor.
huge staircases lead up to the i Pasqualatihaus
university’s ceremonial halls. In Houses on one side of the Mölker-Bastei 8. Map 1 C5 & 5 B2.
1895 Gustav Klimt was commis­ cobbled Schreyvogelgasse Tel 5358905. % Schottentor. Museum:
sioned to decorate the hall are a reminder of Biedermeier Open 10am–1pm & 2–6pm Tue–Sun.
with frescoes, but the degree Vienna and the prettiest of all & 7
of nudity portrayed in some is the Dreimäderlhaus (1803).
panels proved unacceptable There is a legend that Schubert The Pasqualatihaus is no
to the authorities. Eventually, had three sweethearts (drei different in appearance from
when no agreement could be Mäderl) ensconced here, but any of the other houses along
reached, Klimt returned his fee it is more likely that the house this lane, but it is the most
to the government and took was named after the 1920s famous of more than 30 places
Front elevation of the Neues Rathaus, showing the Rathausmann on his tower some 98 m back the paintings; they were operetta Dreimäderlhaus, where Ludwig van Beethoven Liebenberg monument (1890) below the
(320 ft) above the ground destroyed during World War II. which uses his melodies. resided in Vienna. Named after Mölker-Bastei

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