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u Amalienbad o Technical a Otto-Wagner-
Reumannplatz 23, Favoriten. Museum Hofpavillon
Tel 6074747. % Reumannplatz. Mariahilfer Strasse 212, Penzing. Hietzing
@ 7A, 14A, 66A, 67A, 68A. v 6, 67. Tel 899980. @ 10A v 52, 58. Schönbrunner Schlosstrasse 13,
Swimming pool: Open 12:30–3pm Open 9am–6pm Mon–Fri, 10am– Hietzing. Tel 8771571. % Hietzing.
Mon, 9am–6pm Tue, 9am–9:30pm 6pm Sat, Sun & public hols. & (free @ 51A, 56B. v 10, 58, 60. Open
Wed–Fri, 7am–8pm Sat, 7am–6pm for under-19s). 7 (free admission). 10am–6pm Sat & Sun. Closed 1 Jan,
Sun. Sauna: Open 1–9:30pm Tue, - ∑ tmw.ac.at 1 May & 25 Dec. & (free 1st Sun of
9am– 9:30pm Wed–Fri, 7am–8pm Sat, month). 8
7am–6pm Sun. 7
Franz Joseph founded the Otto Wagner (see pp56–9)
Public baths may not seem like Technisches Museum Wien designed and built this railway
an obvious tourist destination, in 1908, using the Habsburgs’ station for the imperial family and
but the Jugendstil Amalienbad personal collections as core royal guests in 1899. The lovely
(1923–6) shows how the material, but it only opened build ing is in the shape of a Hermesvilla in the grounds of the Lainzer Tiergarten
municipal administration in its doors to the public 10 years white cube with green iron work
the 1920s not only provided later. It documents all aspects and a copper dome. Its waiting two-bedroom homes that were and meadows brings you to the
essential public facilities, but of technical progress, from room is decorated with wood plain and functional. No. 19 Hermesvilla, a favourite summer
did so with stylistic vigour and Spinnerin am Kreuz domestic appliances to and glass panelling, a peach and Woinovichgasse is by Adolf retreat of the imperial family.
conviction. The two designers, large turbines, and includes russet asymmetrical carpet and a Loos (see p94) and Nos. 83–5 The interior of the Hermesvilla is
Otto Nadel and Karl Schmalhofer, i Spinnerin am exhibitions on heavy industry, marble and brass fireplace. The Veitingergasse are by Josef currently closed to the public.
were employees of the city’s Kreuz energy, physics and musical cupola is decorated with glass Hoffmann (see p58). Each
architectural department. instruments. and gilt flower and leaf motifs. architect had to design a
The magnificent main pool Triesterstrasse 10, Meidling. A major section of the Wagner built the pavilion single building, placed side f Wotruba-Kirche
is covered by a glass roof that % Meidling. @ 15A, 65A. v 1. museum features interactive without a commission from by side with the rest in order
can be opened in minutes and displays on computer the emperor in an attempt to evaluate the different Georgsgasse/Rysergasse, Mauer.
is surrounded by galleries A medieval column marks the technology and oil and gas to showcase his work. qualities of each. Although Tel 8885003. @ 60A. Open 2–8pm
overlooking the pool. Elsewhere southernmost boundary of drilling and refining, as well Unfortunately, Franz Joseph intended to be temporary, Sat, 9am–4:30pm Sun & hols
in the building are saunas and Vienna’s inner suburbs. Built in as a reconstruction of a used the station only twice. they have luckily survived. Tel 0650 3324833 to make an
smaller baths and pools used 1452 and carved on all sides, it coal mine. appointment to see the church.
for therapeutic purposes. stands on the spot where, The Railway Museum d Lainzer
The interior throughout is according to legend, a woman forms an integral part of the Built between 1965 and 1976
enlivened by imaginative sat spinning for years awaiting Technical Museum. It houses Tiergarten in uncompromisingly modern
mosaic and tile decoration. her husband’s return from the an extensive collection of Lainzer Tiergarten, Hietzing. Tiergarten: style, this church stands on a
When first opened, the Crusades. Known as the Spinner imperial railway carriages Tel 400049200. @ 55A. v 60. hillside very close to the Vienna
baths were one of the largest at the Cross, it was designed by and engines. Open mid-Feb–mid-Nov 8am–dusk Woods. It consists of a pile of
of their kind in Europe, Hans Puchsbaum. Pinnacled daily. & Hermesvilla: Closed to the uneven rectangular concrete
designed to accommodate canopies shelter groups of public. slabs and glass panels, some
1,300 people. The baths were statuary, including a Crucifixion p Schönbrunn of the latter rising to the full
damaged in World War II and a grotesque figure placing Palace and Gardens The Lainzer Tiergarten is a height of the church. They
but were impeccably restored the crown of thorns on the former Habsburg hunting provide its principal lighting
in 1986. head of Christ. See pp174–7. ground which has been and views for the congregation
converted into an immense out on to the woods and hills.
nature reserve in the Vienna The building is raw in style,
The Hofpavillon Hietzing Woods (see p178). The Tiergarten but powerful and compact.
was opened to the public in Designed by the sculptor
1923 and is still encircled by Fritz Wotruba (1907–75), the
s Werkbund- its 24-km (15-mile) stone wall, church looks different from
siedlung protecting its herds of deer every angle and has a strong
and wild boar. There are three sculptural quality. It accom-
Jagdschlossgasse, Veitingergasse and restaurants in the park and modates a congregation of
Woinovichgasse, Hietzing. @ 54B, scenic viewing up to 250.
55B. v 62. posts overlooking
the favourite
In the 13th district you can feeding areas
find the 30 or so fascinating for the wild boar,
“model” houses of the bighorn sheep,
Werkbundsiedlung (housing deer and elk.
estate) built in the early 1930s There is also a
for the municipality by some large bat habitat.
of Europe’s leading architects. From the entrance,
They are neither beautiful nor a 15-minute walk
lavish, since the idea was to along paths The exterior of the Wotruba-Kirche by Fritz Wotruba, not
Decorative, geometrically patterned tiling from the 1920s in the Amalienbad produce a formula for cheap through woods unlike a modern sculpture

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