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Exploring Vienna’s Historic Houses and Palaces
Memorial Houses
A stroll around Vienna’s streets provides the visitor an Vienna abounds in the former
unparalleled view of beautifully preserved historic buildings, residences of famous composers.
from former imperial residences to humbler burghers’ They are not all of great
dwellings. The majority date from the 17th and 18th centuries architectural merit, and their
interest resides mainly in the
and illustrate the various phases of Baroque architecture. exhibits they contain. The
In most cases their original function as residences of the Pasqualatihaus was one of
rich and famous has been superseded; a number have Beethoven’s many Viennese
now been turned into museums and even hotels, and their residences – it was here that he
interiors are open to the public. composed the opera Fidelio –
and it now houses portraits and
other mementoes of the great
composer. The Heiligenstadt
Garden Palaces
Testament House (at No. 6 Courtyard of the Heiligenstadt Testament House
Although it seems strange that Probusgasse, Heiligenstadt),
palaces within the city limits where Beethoven stayed in letters, manuscripts, personal Freud Museum houses
should be termed garden an attempt to cure his possessions and the composer’s furnishings, documents and
palaces, when they were built deafness, is now a memorial. two pianos. Mozart and his photographs, and the consult-
they were outside the city The first-floor apartment of family lived from 1784 to 1787 ing room is as it looked when
boundaries, and offered a cool Frescoed ceiling of the Liechtenstein the Haydn Museum in in the Mozarthaus Vienna. Sigmund Freud used to see
refuge for their inhabitants Garden Palace Haydngasse is pleasantly This is where Mozart wrote his patients. It is also used as
Façade of the Schönborn-Batthyány Palace during the hot summer months. furnished and filled with The Marriage of Figaro. The a study centre.
The most famous example is
Schönbrunn Palace, where the Suburban Villas
Town Palaces state apartments can be seen as The Döbling District Museum Decorative Details
The most extensive town palace part of a guided tour. The is housed in the Biedermeier Many of the historic houses and palaces of Vienna Finding the Palaces
is the Hofburg, with its museums Belvedere, to the south of the Villa Wertheimstein (1834–5), were built during a period corresponding to the and Houses
and imperial apartments. The city, houses the Museum of whose interior is furnished Baroque and late Baroque styles of architecture. Belvedere pp154–9
staircase of the magnificent Austrian Art, and many rooms in its original flamboyant Details such as window hoods and pediments over Dreimäderlhaus p133
Winter Palace of Prince Eugene retain their original splendid and overcrowded manner. doorways were often extremely ornate. Ferstel Palace p112
is on view to the public, as is the decoration. The Hermesvilla By contrast, the Geymüller- Freud Museum p112
Liechtenstein Palace (1694– (1884), a cross between a schlössel, containing the Geymüllerschlössel p162
1706), the winter home of the hunting lodge and a Viennese Sobek Collection of clocks and Zum Blauen Karpfen p82
Liechtenstein family. The Neo- villa, was commissioned by watches, is a model of taste Haydn Museum p143
Gothic Ferstel Palace (1860) Franz Joseph for his wife and restraint. In Hietzing, the Hermesvilla p173
houses the Café Central (see Elisabeth. The interior of the Villa Primavesi (1913–15) is a Caryatid on the Hofburg pp98–103
p60). The Obizzi Palace is home Neo-Classical Rasumofsky small Jugendstil masterpiece doorway of the Josefstadt pp116–17
to the Clock Museum (see p88) Palace (1806–7) can be seen designed by Josef Hoffmann Liechtenstein Palace Kinsky Palace p112
and the Lobkowitz Palace to a only on special occasions. The (see p58) for the banker Kurrentgasse p88
theatre museum (see p106). Liechtenstein Garden Palace Robert Primavesi. Liechtenstein Garden Palace p113
Town palaces which can be houses the private art collection Liechtenstein Town Palace p106
admired from the outside only of the Liechtenstein family (see Burghers’ Houses Lobkowitz Palace p106
are the Kinsky Palace (1713– p113). The pieces include Decorative window hood on the façade of Mozarthaus Vienna p78
16), Trautson Palace and Renaissance sculpture and On Tuchlauben, the Neidhart the Trautson Palace Naglergasse p96
Schönborn-Batthyány Palace. Baroque paintings. Fresco House is decorated Neidhart Fresco House p95
with secular frescoes from Obizzi Palace p88
around 1400. Charming Pasqualatihaus p133
Baroque houses of modest Rasumofsky Palace,
dimensions can be seen Rasumofskygasse 23–25,
on Naglergasse and Kurrent- Landstrasse.
gasse and in inner districts Schönborn-Batthyány
such as Spittelberg and Decorative urns on the Decorative pediment with shield on the Palace p111
Josefstadt. A particularly Lobkowitz Palace Schönborn-Batthyány Palace Schönbrunn Palace pp174–7
fine example of external Schwarzenberg Palace p152
decoration can be seen on Spittelberg p119
the Baroque inn Zum Blauen Trautson Palace p118
Karpfen in Annagasse (see Villa Primavesi p187
p82). The Dreimäderlhaus Villa Wertheimstein, Döblinger
in Schreyvogelgasse, built in Hauptstrasse 96. Map 1 B1.
an intermediate style between Winter Palace of Prince
Rococo and Neo-Classicism, Eugene p82
Façade and gardens of the Hermesvilla is also worth visiting. Stucco putti on the façade of Zum Blauen Karpfen

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