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The Danube
The River Danube often flooded its
banks, so its course was altered and
regulated in the 1890s by a system of
canals and locks.

Vienna Café Society
In the 19th century, Vienna’s cafés became the
haunts of literary and political cliques.

The Naturhistorisches Museum pp130–31
(Gottfried Semper, 1871–90)
Museum of Applied Arts pp84–5
(Heinrich Ferstel, 1867–71)
Kunsthistorisches Museum pp124–9 Horse-drawn Trams
(Gottfried Semper, 1871–90) Trams appeared on the Ringstrasse in the
1860s. Horseless trams ran along it by the
end of the 19th century.
Stadtpark

Opera House pp140–41
(Eduard van der Nüll and August Siccardsburg, 1861–9)

Ringstrasse
This great boulevard, built under Franz The Opening of the Stadtpark
Joseph, separates the Stephansdom and Laid out on either side of the River Wien,
Hofburg Quarters from the suburbs. the Stadtpark was inaugurated in 1862.
Completed in the 1880s, the Ringstrasse
is as grand now as it was then.

1874 First performance of Strauss’s 1889 Suicide of Archduke
Die Fledermaus at the Theater an der Rudolf at Mayerling
Wien. Opening of Central Cemetery

1870 1875 1880 1885
1873 Stock market crash
1879 Lavish historical parade 1890 Vienna expands as
1872 Johannes Brahms settles in Vienna
as director of the Gesellschaft der along the Ringstrasse celebrates the outer suburbs are
Musikfreunde. Death of Austrian poet Franz Joseph’s silver wedding incorporated into the city
and dramatist Franz Grillparzer

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