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A spacious arcaded courtyard,
lined with busts of the
university’s most distinguished
professors, is located in the
centre of the building. Among
the figures on display include
the founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (see p112) and
the philosopher Franz Brentano.
Nearby are the smoke-filled and
poster-daubed corridors of
today’s university students.
t Café Landtmann
Universitätsring 4. Map 1 C5 & 5 B2.
Tel 24100100. % Schottentor, Her-
ren gasse. v D, 1, 71. Open 7am– One of the arcades surrounding the university courtyard
midnight daily. 7 ∑ landtmann.at
u Mölker-Bastei its original owner, Baron
If the Café Central (see p60) is the Map 1 C5 & 5 B2. % Schottentor. Johann von Pasqualati, it was
coffee house of Vienna’s intel li- v D, 1, 71. Beethoven’s home between
gent sia, this café (see p60) is surely 1804 and 1808, and from 1810
the coffee house of the affluent A few paces away from the to 1815. He composed many
middle classes. Established in bustling Schottentor is the of his best-loved works here,
1873 by coffee-maker Franz quiet street of Mölker-Bastei, including Symphonies 4, 5, 7
Landtmann, it was Sigmund built on a former and 8, the opera Fidelio,
Freud’s (see p112) favourite bastion of the city Piano Concerto No. 4, and
coffee house, and is still very walls. It boasts string quartets. Today,
popular. The walls are adorned some beautiful the rooms on the
with mirrors and elegant late 18th-century fourth floor which the
panelling, creating an attractive houses. Beethoven composer occupied
setting for a cup of coffee. lived here, and the house a small museum.
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
in 1853 when a tailor the Pasqualatihaus photograph of his
attempted to grave at Währing
assassinate him. No. 10 is the cemetery, a deathbed engraving
house where the Belgian Prince and early editions of his scores
Charles de Ligne lived during the are on display. The museum also
Congress of Vienna in 1815 (see contains busts and paintings of
p32). De Ligne wrote several Beethoven and his patron Prince
cynical commentaries on the Rasumofsky, the Russian
activities of the crowned heads ambassador to Vienna.
The attractive Dreimäderlhaus (left) on of Europe who came to Vienna
Schreyvogelgasse at that time. A ladies’ man, he
caught a fatal chill while waiting
y Dreimäderlhaus for an assignation on the bastion.
Schreyvogelgasse 10. Map 1 C5 & 5
B2. % Schottentor.
i Pasqualatihaus
Houses on one side of the Mölker-Bastei 8. Map 1 C5 & 5 B2.
cobbled Schreyvogelgasse Tel 5358905. % Schottentor. Museum:
are a reminder of Biedermeier Open 10am–1pm & 2–6pm Tue–Sun.
Vienna and the prettiest of all & 7
is the Dreimäderlhaus (1803).
There is a legend that Schubert The Pasqualatihaus is no
had three sweethearts (drei different in appearance from
Mäderl) ensconced here, but any of the other houses along
it is more likely that the house this lane, but it is the most
was named after the 1920s famous of more than 30 places
operetta Dreimäderlhaus, where Ludwig van Beethoven Liebenberg monument (1890) below the
which uses his melodies. resided in Vienna. Named after Mölker-Bastei

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