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with nailhead ornament and 4 Grinzing
has spindly screwshaped pillars, % Heiligenstadt. @ 38A. v 38.
topped by wreaths, supporting
the porch. Four stone columns Grinzing is the most famous
on the façade are adorned with Heuriger village (see pp188–9),
angels by Othmar Schimkowitz but it is also the most touristy,
(1864–1947). The statues at with many of the inns here
each end of the façade are of catering to very large groups.
St Leopold and St Severin to It is nonetheless very pretty.
the left and right respectively. It is divided into the Oberer
They were designed by Richard Ort and Unterer Ort (upper and
Luksch and are seated in chairs lower towns), the lower town
by Josef Hoffmann (see p58). being where you will find more The peach- and salmon-coloured façade of the Karl-Marx-Hof
Inside is a single space with authentic Heurigen along lanes
shallow side chapels, decorated such as Sandgasse. astonishing Verduner Altar, (see p38), when 63,000 new
with gold and white friezes Grinzing was repeatedly whose 51 panels were dwellings went up across the
and square roof panels orna attacked by Turkish troops completed in 1181 city between 1919 and 1934.
mented with gilt nailhead. during the many sieges (see p25). In the 18th The architect of the Karl-Marx-
Illumination is provided by of Vienna (see pp28–9), and century it was Hof was Karl Ehn, a pupil of
daylight shining through lovely was later damaged by expanded by Karl VI, Otto Wagner (see pp56–9).
blue glass windows by Kolo Napoleon’s forces in who inten ded to
Moser (see p59). 1809 (see p32). build a complex on
the same grand scale as 8 Donaupark
3 Geymüller- 5 Kahlenberg the Escorial palace near % Kaisermühlen. @ 20B. Open 24
Madrid. The work
schlössel hours. Donauturm: Tel 4000 8042.
@ 38A. was halted after his Open 10am–11:30pm daily. 7
Khevenhüllerstrasse 2, Währing. Statue in Grinzing death in 1740.
Tel 71136231. @ 41A. v 41. Kahlenberg, at 484 m Adjoining UNO-City (see p39),
Open May–Nov: 11am–6pm Sun. (1,585 ft), is the highest point 7 Karl-Marx-Hof the complex of United Nations
& 8 by reservation. ∑ mak.at in the Vienna Woods (see agencies, is the Donaupark.
pp178–9). It has a television Heiligenstädterstrasse 82–92, Döbling. Developed in 1964, the park
The Geymüllerschlössel in mast at the top, as well as a % Heiligenstadt. v D. Closed to the features a variety of beautiful
Pötzleinsdorf, northwest of the church, an observation terrace public. gardens, cycle lanes and cafés.
city, is a temple to Biedermeier and a restaurant. The views Its landmark is the Donauturm,
Detail of Ernst Fuchs’ Brunnenhaus, next to Wagner Villas style (see pp32–3). Dating from over the vineyards below The Karl-Marx-Hof, dating from which rises 252 m (827 ft)
1808, the house was built for and the city beyond are 1927 to 1930, is an immense above the park and has two
1 Wagner Villas than brick. It is lightly deco rated Johann Heinrich von Geymüller, fabulous, with the Danube social housing project, containing revolving restaurants and an
in a geometrical style with a rich banker. Now a branch of bridges to the left and the 1,382 flats. It is the most observation platform. The park
Hüttelbergstrasse 26, Penzing. Tel
9148575. % Hütteldorf. @ 52A & deep blue panels and a glass the Austrian Museum of Applied Vienna Woods to the right. celebrated of the municipal and the surrounding area are
52B to Camping Platz Wien West. nailhead ornament by Kolo Arts (see pp84–5), it has a collec The Kahlenberg played a housing developments built incorporated into Donau City,
Open 10am–4pm Tue–Sat, by Moser (see p59). tion of intricate Biedermeier and crucial part in the city’s history during the period of Red Vienna a vast urban project.
appointment Sun & Mon. & Empire furniture, such as an in 1683, when the Polish king,
∑ ernstfuchsmuseum.at 2 Kirche am apparently simple desk that Jan Sobieski, led his troops
combines a writing desk with a
down from this spot to rescue
The Villa Otto Wagner, design ed Steinhof watercolour cabinet. There are the Viennese forces who were
by Wagner from 1886 to 1888 as Baumgartner Höhe 1, Penzing. also spittoons, stilllifes painted fighting for the city.
his own residence, is stylistically Tel 9106011007. v 48A. on porcelain, bowls, as well as
midway between his earlier Open 4–5pm Sat, noon–4pm Sun. 200 clocks dating from 1780
Ringstrasse architect ure and the 8 by appointment. & to about 1850, the heyday of 6 Klosterneuburg
decorative elements of Jugendstil Viennese clock manufacture. Stift Klosterneuburg. Tel 022434110.
(see pp56–9). The house is built Completed in 1907, % Heiligenstadt. < Franz-Josefs-
on a grand scale, incor po rating this astonishing Bahnhof to Klosterneuburg-Kierling.
Classical elements such as Ionic church was Otto @ 238, 239. Open 9am–5pm
columns, and seems more Wagner’s (see daily. 8 Daily tours include the
suited to a north Italian hillside pp56–9) last Monastery Museum and Imperial
than to Austria. The present commission. It is Apartments. & ∑ stift-
owner, the painter Ernst Fuchs set within the klosterneuburg.at
(see p38), has imposed his own grounds of the
personality on the villa, adding a Psychiatrisches Above the Danube, 13 km
fertility statue and garish colours. Krankenhaus, a (8 miles) north of Vienna,
The simpler villa next door was large mental stands the vast monastery
built more than 20 years later. hospital. The and fortress of Klosterneuburg.
Completed in 1913, Brunnenhaus exterior is Jugendstil angels by Othmar Schimkowitz adorning the façade of the Dating originally from the
is of steel and concrete rather marbleclad Kirche am Steinhof 12th century, it houses the The Klosterneuburg monastery with its Baroque dome
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