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Vienna’s Best: Historic Houses Frescoes dating from 1400,
Neidhart Fresco House
and Palaces depicting the songs of the
medieval minnesinger Neidhart
Baroque mansions dominate the streets of the Stephansdom van Reuenthal, decorate the
dining room of this former
Quarter, while outside the centre of Vienna are the grand house of a wealthy clockmaker.
summer palaces where the Habsburg emperors and
aristocracy lived during warm Central European summers.
The interiors of several of the houses can be visited, while
others can only be admired from the outside or from their Freud Museum 0 metres 500
inner courtyards and staircases. Further details can be The home – and office – of Sigmund 0 yards 500
Freud, who lived here from 1891 to
found on pages 46–7. 1938, is full of memorabilia of Freud’s
working and domestic life (see p112).
Mozarthaus Vienna
Kinsky Palace Mozart lived in this Baroque
This mansion (1713–16) by building for three years between
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt Schottenring and Schottenring and 1784 and 1787, and composed
(see p154), was built for the AlsergrundAlsergrund one of his most famous works,
Daun family, and is sometimes The Marriage of Figaro, here.
called the Daun Kinsky Palace.
Wirich Philipp von Daun was
commander of the city
garrison, and his son Leopold
Joseph von Daun was Maria
Theresa’s field marshal. D A N U B E C A N A L

Museum and Stephansdom
Townhall Quarter
Hofburg Quarter Winter Palace of Prince Eugene
The apartments here are made up Hofburg J B Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lukas
Hofburg
of over 20 rooms; among them are Quarter von Hildebrandt designed this Baroque
Quarter
ceremonial halls and living quarters palace, with its spectacular staircase, for
that were once occupied by Franz the war hero Prince Eugene (see pp28–9).
Joseph (see pp34–5) and the
Empress Elisabeth.

Opera and
Naschmarkt
Zum Blauen Karpfen
A stucco relief of a blue
Belvedere Quarter carp and a frieze of putti
Schönbrunn Palace adorn the façade of this
17th-century house on
Annagasse.
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Schönbrunn Palace
This palace, by J B
Fischer von Erlach, was
built on a scale to rival
the palace of Versailles
outside Paris. Parts of it
were later redesigned Belvedere
by Maria Theresa’s Designed by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt,
architect Nikolaus Prince Eugene’s summer palaces were built
Pacassi (see pp174–7). on what were originally the southern outskirts
of Vienna. The Upper Belvedere now houses
the Museum of Austrian Art.

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