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was executed in 1867 9.
Nearby is a Neo-Classical
building housing the
Bezirksmuseum Hietzing 0;
outside it is Vienna’s last
gas lamp.
Trauttmansdorffgasse and
Gloriettegasse
Turn left into Maxingstrasse,
named after Maximilian, then o Detail from the majolica façade of the Lebkuchenhaus
right into Altgasse. Almost
facing Fasholdgasse is an old road, at No. 27 is a house belonged to Katharina Schratt,
Heuriger, a Biedermeier building where the composer Alban an actress and confidante of
with ochre walls q. Berg (see p41) once lived e. Emperor Franz Joseph during
Nos. 48 and 50 are contrasting his later years. It is said that the
examples of Viennese turn-of- Emperor was in the habit of
the-century architecture r.
arriving here for breakfast p.
N I S S E L G . GYROWETZG. More examples of
Biedermeier style can be Maxing Park and
Braunschweig- seen at Nos. 54 and Schönbrunn Park
H I E T Z I N G E R
gasse 1 H A D I K G A S S E 56 t. At the end of Walk to the end of Gloriette-
DO MMAY ERG. K A I KLE I N - G . Hietzing S C H Ö N B R U N N E R S C H LO S S S T R . into Gloriettegasse. gasse, then turn right up
2
the road, turn right
E D U ARD-
3
Maxingstrasse and cross the
On the right at Nos. 14
5
detour a little further up the hill
6 4 and 16 is a villa with road at Maxing Park. A half-hour
monumental sculpted figures takes you to Hietzing cemetery,
H I E T Z I N G E R H A U P T S T R A S S E
7 resting in the pediments, built which contains the graves of
9
q 0 8 SCHÖNBRUNN in 1913–15 by Josef Hoffmann Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Kolo
A LT GASSE
L A I N Z E R S T R A S S E e w GASSE Primavesi y. Cross the road to among others. Alternatively,
FASHOLD-
PAR K
Moser and Franz Grillparzer,
for the financier Robert
pass a terrace of Biedermeier
enter Maxing Park a and follow
WOLTERGASSE M A N N G A S S E
the main path upwards to the
houses – Nos. 38 and 40 have
r
lunettes above the windows u.
right. At the top, go through the
t
designed by Friedrich Ohmann
Schönbrunn, passing the forestry
T R A U T T M A N N S D O RF F G A S S E f M A X I N G S T R A S S E No. 21 is the Villa Schopp, gates marked Zum Tiergarten
W A T T
in 1901–2 i. Turn left down research institute on your left.
y o Wattmanngasse to see Although you are actually in the
u G LO R I E T T E G . TIROLERGASSE No. 29, the extraordinary grounds of Schönbrunn, this
i
d Lebkuchenhaus (Gingerbread heavily wooded area feels very
p House) o, so-called because of remote from the formal gardens
its dark brown majolica and you may catch a glimpse of
s decoration. It was built in 1914 deer. At the crossroads in the
Turn down to designs by a pupil of Otto path turn left, signposted to the
W E I D L I C H G A S S E
a Fasholdgasse Wagner (see pp56–9). Turn back Botanical Garden. You soon
into Trautt- into Gloriettegasse. At its arrive at a little wooden hut,
mansdorffgasse, southern junction with which was Crown Prince
MAXING a street full of Wattmann- Rudolf’s playhouse s.
PARK
interesting houses. gasse, at No. The path eventually leads to
No. 40 is a 9, is the the formally planted Botanical
SECKENDORFF-GUDENT WEG w, while across the that in 1848 under Emperor Franz I.
house
beautifully restored,
Garden d, which was laid out
long and low
Take the path through the
Biedermeier villa
garden, keeping to the boundary
wall with Hietzing. Exit into
Maxingstrasse (this gate may be
locked on Sundays) and
continue north. At No. 18 is
the house where Johann
Strauss II wrote Die Fledermaus
in 1874 f. Carry on north
along Maxingstrasse and
retrace your steps to Hietzing
y Sculpted figure in a pediment of the Villa Primavesi U-Bahn.
For keys to symbols see back flap
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