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a tablet from 1571 warns visitors y Neue Burg o Hofjagd und
not to carry weapons or to Heldenplatz. Map 4 D1 & 5 B4. Rüstkammer
fight here. The injunction was Tel 52524484. % Volkstheater, As Neue Burg. Tel 525244502.
famously ignored when the Herrengasse. v D, 1, 2, 71. ∑ khm.at
1848 Revolution (see p33) was Open 10am–6pm Wed–Sun.
ignited on this very spot. & ∑ hofburg-wien.at The Hofburg’s weapons
The long, low Neo-Classical collection is impressive both for
façade of No. 7 received its The Neue Burg, a massive curved its size and for the workmanship
present appearance from building situated on Heldenplatz, of its finest items: ivory and
Ludwig Pichl and Giacomo was added to the Hofburg filigree inlay on weapons,
Quarenghi in 1811. At No. 5 Complex between 1881 and medieval ceremonial saddles
Anton Ospel (1677–1756) 1913. It embodies the last gasp and jewelled Turkish and Syrian
gave the Wilczek Palace of the Habsburg Empire as it maces. Of note are the
The pedestrianized Kohlmarkt, home to many exclusive shops and beautiful shopfronts (built before 1737) an unusual strained under aspirations of 16th­century ceremonial suits
façade, with angled pilasters in dependence from its domains, worn by the Habsburgs for
0 Kohlmarkt its name. This narrow lane lending the central bays an when the personal prestige of tournaments and military
follows the line of a wall that illusion of perspective. Emperor Franz Joseph was all that parades, and the decorative
Map 2 D5 & 5 C3. % Herrengasse.
@ 1A, 2A. used to stand here in Roman seemed able to keep it intact. fighting and hunting weapons.
times. Today Naglergasse is r Mollard-Clary It was not the perfect moment The core of the collection is
Leading directly up to the lined with a succession of to embark on an extension to the personal armouries of the
Imperial Palace, the Kohlmarkt gorgeous Baroque houses. The Palace the Hofburg, but the work was Habsburg emperors and, not
is pedestrianized and lined with delightful Renaissance bay Herrengasse 9. Map 2 D5 & 5 B3. undertaken never theless, and the surprisingly, houses one of the
some of Vienna’s most exclusive window of No. 19 is ornamented Tel 53410710. % Herrengasse. Neue Burg was built to designs finest collections in Europe.
shops and remarkable shopfronts. with carved cherubs. No. 13 @ 1A, 2A. Globe Museum: by the Ringstrasse architects Karl
No. 9, the Jugendstil Artaria Haus dates from the 16th century Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (to 9pm von Hasenauer (1833–94) and p Weltmuseum
(1901), was the work of Max but has been considerably Thu). ∑ onb.ac.at Gottfried Semper (1803–79). Five
Fabiani (1865–1962), a protégé altered since. No. 21 (1720) is years after its completion, the Wien
of Otto Wagner (see p59). No.16, now an inn with a particularly This magnificent Baroque Habsburg Empire ended. Suit of armour at Hofjagd und Rüstkammer As Neue Burg. Tel 534305052. Open
the bookshop and publisher snug and cosy interior. palace, dating from 1686, owes In 1938, Adolf Hitler stood on 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (to 9pm Fri). &
Manz, boasts a charac teristic its name to two aristocratic the terraced central bay to i Sammlung Alter 7 - ∑ weltmuseumwien.at
portal from 1912 by Adolf Loos tenants, Mollard and Clary. It proclaim the Anschluss – the
(see p94). The striking abstract e Herrengasse is famous for the reforming union of Austria and Germany Musikinstrumente Collecting for the Weltmuseum
shopfront of jewellers Schullin Map 2 D5 & 5 B2. % Herrengasse. cultural soirées presided over – to tens of thousands of As Neue Burg. Tel 525244602. began in 1806, and young
(1982) was designed by the @ 1A, 2A. there by Emperor Joseph II. Viennese (see p38). ∑ khm.at archdukes on their travels across
architect Hans Hollein (see p93). Today it is home to the world’s The Neue Burg is home to the the globe were avid contri bu­
Flanking the Hofburg, this only museum devoted solely reading room of the national Pianos that belonged to tors. The “Museum of Man”, as
street was the prime location to globes and is part of the library, as well as a number of Beethoven, Schubert and Austria’s foremost ethnological
q Demel Konditorei for the palaces of the Habsburg Austrian National Library. A museums (see following entries) Haydn, among countless other institution is sometimes called,
nobility. In 1843 a visiting writer, special chamber houses the that are all under the direction items, are housed in the musical has as its centrepiece the Italian
Kohlmarkt 14. Map 2 D5 & 5 C3.
Tel 53517170. % Stephansplatz. J G Kohl, wrote of the street’s huge globes of Venetian of the KHM­Museumsverband. instrument museum. More Renaissance­style Hall of
@ 1A, 2A. Open 9am–7pm daily. 7 “silent palaces”, and today little Vincenzo Coronelli and the impressive, however, is the Columns. There is a café and
has changed. giant 16th-century globes by collection of Renaissance bistro and 14 galleries themed
This famous pastry shop at The office of the provincial Gerard Mercator. u Ephesos Museum instruments, widely believed to by region or subject. There is a
No. 14 Kohlmarkt still bears government of Lower Austria, the As Neue Burg. Tel 525244902. be the finest in the world. The permanent exhibition on the
its imperial patent – K.u.k. Landhaus, is at No. 13; the façade t Hofburg Complex Open 10am–6pm Wed–Sun. claviorgan (1596), the oldest English explorer James Cook.
Hof-Zuckerbäcker – proudly of the present building dates ∑ khm.at surviving example of this But the most prized piece is the
lettered above the shopfront. from the 1830s. In the courtyard See pp98–103. instrument, is particularly 500­year­old green quetzal­
The pastry shop was founded For decades interesting, and features stops feather Penacho tribal head­
in Michaelerplatz in 1785 and Austrian used to create special effects dress from Mexico, sometimes
acquired by the pâtissier archaeologists such as birdsong. attributed to Montezuma. There
Christoph Demel in 1857, before have been exca­ is also a rare collection from
moving to its present site on va ting the Greek Benin, but everyday items from
Kohlmarkt in 1888. Its many and Roman site primitive cultures ranging from
small rooms are in an ornate of Ephesus in Turkey. the Arctic and Himalayas to
late 19th-century style. Since 1978 their discoveries mud huts are equally evocative.
have been displayed in the main
block of the Neue Burg. Also on
w Naglergasse show are finds from the Greek
island of Samothrace, excavated
Map 2 D5 & 5 C2. % Herrengasse.
@ 1A, 2A. in the 1870s. The main exhibits
include a huge frieze com mem­
During the Middle Ages needle- o rating Lucius Verus’s victory over
makers had their shops here, the Parthians in AD 165, and Renaissance cittern from the
which is how the street acquired People walking along Herrengasse, a street with a rich history many architectural fragments. Sammlung Alter Musikinstrumente

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