Vienna, Austria 2017 Part V

Still in Vienna and walked a couple of parks/gardens and then took a “Fiaker” ride around the old historic city.

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“Fiaker”, Petersplats, Vienna, Austria

A fiacre is a form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. In Vienna such cabs are called Fiaker. (not us)


Fürstentum Liechtenstein Botschaft, Löwelstraße 8, Vienna


Wüstenrot House, Kohlmarkt, Vienna


View down Kohlmarkt to The Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel, Vienna


Storefront, Graben, Vienna


St Michael Gate, The Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel, Vienna


Statue, Kaiser Franz I, Löwelstraße, The Hofburg, Vienna

Franz Joseph Karl from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine was from 1792 to 1806 as Franz II the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In 1804 he founded the empire of Austria, which he reigned as Francis I until his death.


Water Hydrant, Löwelstraße, The Hofburg, Vienna


Statue, Swiss Gate, In der Burg, The Hofburg, Vienna


The Swiss Gate, The Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel, Vienna


The Hofburg, Vienna

The Hofburg is the official residence and workplace of the President of Austria and was formerly the principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty. Located in the center of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century.


Müllverbrennungsanlage Spittelau (Waste Incineration Plant), Spittelauer Lände, Vienna

(Taken from a tram)


Citroen 2CV, Klosterneuburger Straße, Brigittenau, Vienna


Chevrolet Utility, Alserbachstraße, Vienna

Not the sort of vehicle I expected to see in this historic city!


Schubertbrunnen (Schubert Fountain), Alserbachstraße, Josefstadt, Vienna c.1928


Entry Gate, Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Fürstengasse, Vienna

Lichtenstein Park, Gardens and Palaces, Fürstengasse, Vienna

The Liechtenstein Palace is now a private art museum in Vienna, Austria. It contains much of the art collection of its owners, the Princely Family of Liechtenstein, rulers of the principality of Liechtenstein. It includes important European works of art, forming one of the world’s leading private art collections.


Bank Austria Building, Julius Tandler Platz, Vienna


Colourful Building, Lampigasse 19, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


“Big Brother”, Lampigasse, Vienna


Park Railing, Augarten, Lampigasse, Vienna


Tree-Lined Avenues, Augarten, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


Monument, Augarten, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


Flakturm VII G-Tower (Anti-Aircraft Tower), Augarten, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


Flakturm VII L-Tower (Anti-Aircraft Tower), Augarten, Leopoldstadt, Vienna

Flak towers (German: Flaktürme) were large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed by Nazi Germany. There were 8 flak tower complexes in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2), and Vienna (3) from 1940 onwards. Other cities that used flak towers included Stuttgart and Frankfurt. Smaller single-purpose flak towers were built at key outlying German strongpoints, such as at Angers in France, Helgoland in Germany. The towers were operated by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied strategic air raids against these cities during World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of local civilians.



Vienna, Austria 2017 Part IV

Gartenpalais Liechtenstein (Garden Palace), Fürstengasse, Vienna, Austria

The City Palace of the Princely family of Liechtenstein is the first major example of High Baroque architecture in Vienna and holds insights into artistocratic life. The Lichtenstenstein Garden Palace is home to an art collection once owned by Prince von und zu Liechtenstein. Known as The Princely Collections, they contain masterpieces from the early Renaissance to the Biedermeier era, including highlights from Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals and Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. The collections also include unique and precious holdings of prints and engravings, Italian bronzes of the 16th and 17th century, pietra dura objects, furniture,porcelain, tapestries, ivories and arms that once graced the castles and palaces owned by the family.


Flakturm VII G-Tower (Anti-Aircraft Tower), Augarten, Leopoldstadt, Vienna

Flak towers (German: Flaktürme) were large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed by Nazi Germany. There were 8 flak tower complexes in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2), and Vienna (3) from 1940 onwards. Other cities that used flak towers included Stuttgart and Frankfurt. Smaller single-purpose flak towers were built at key outlying German strongpoints, such as at Angers in France, Helgoland in Germany. The towers were operated by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied strategic air raids against these cities during World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of local civilians.


Café Restaurant Augarten Wall, Obere Augartenstraße, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


Entry Gate, Augarten, Obere Augartenstraße, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


Wine Barrel, Café Restaurant Augarten, Obere Augartenstraße, Vienna


Das Porzellanmuseum Augarten, Obere Augartenstraße, Vienna


Old Building, Augarten, Obere Augartenstraße, Vienna


Entry Gate, Augarten, Obere Augartenstraße, Leopoldstadt, Vienna


Tech Gate, Donau-City-Straße, Vienna


Andromeda Tower, Donau-City-Straße, Vienna


Saturn Tower, Leonard Bernstein Straße, Dabube City, Vienna


Commercial Building, Bruno Kreisky Platz, Vienna


“Große Skulptur” (Fritz Wotruba, 1965), Bruno Kreisky Platz, Vienna


Donauturm Aussichtsturm (Danube Obersavtion Tower), Mispelweg, Vienna

The Donauturm (English: Danube Tower) is a tower in Vienna, the tallest structure in Austria at 252 metres (827 ft), and is the 59th tallest tower in the world. Opening in April 1964, the tower is located near the north bank of the Danube River in the district of Donaustadt. Travel to the top and there is a revolving restaurant.


Views from Donauturm Revolving Restaurant, Donauturm Aussichtsturm (Danube Obersavtion Tower), Mispelweg, Vienna


Memorial to Salvador Allende, Donaupark, Vienna

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

Allende’s involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race. He was elected in a run-off by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority.


Miniature Railway Track, Donaupark, Vienna


“Golf Kills”, Papstwiese Donau Park, Donauturmstraße, Vienna


Stone Sculpture, Donaupark, Vienna


View to Millenium Tower from Danube Park, Handelskai, Vienna


Business District, Austria Centre, Bruno Kreisky Platz, Vienna


Graffitied Lamp, Platz der Vereinten Nationen, Vienna


Mondial Apartments, Alserbachstraße, Josefstadt, Vienna

Our accommodation for Vienna stay.



Vienna, Austria 2017 Part III

Sculptures, Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria


Fiaker Driver, Michaelerplatz, Vienna

A fiacre is a form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. In Vienna such cabs are called Fiaker.


Emperor Joseph II Statue, Josefplatz, Hofburg Palace, Vienna

Josefsplatz is centred on a full-sized equestrian statue and monument of Emperor Joseph II, erected by sculptor Franz Anton von Zauner between 1795 and 1807. Modelled on the statue of Marcus Aurelius on Capitoline Hill in Rome, the statue was commissioned by Emperor Francis II who, from the age of 16, had been raised under the supervision of his uncle, Joseph II. The depiction of Joseph II as a Roman conqueror, dressed in a toga and a laurel wreath, reflects the Habsburg belief that they were descendants of the ancient Roman emperors.


Palais Pallavicini, Josefplatz, Vienna, Austria


Josefsbrunnen (Joseph’s Fountain), Graben, Vienna

There are written records that in the middle of the 15th century, a fountain was built on the ditch, whose water was derived from the garden of the Hofburg in tubes and because of the four lion heads, which probably served as gargoyles, was referred to as “Löwenbrunn”. As of 1651, in the center of the fountain was a statue of Jupiter , designed by the sculptor Johann Jakob Pock . In the middle of the 16th century, another well was built east of the ditch. Among the wells also worked the court stonemason and sculptor Antonius Bregno (also called Premb ) and the court painter Stephan Simpeckh . After the erection of the plague column(1679), Emperor Leopold I wished that the two fountains, on either side of the column , be rebuilt, and that the fountains should be equipped with portraits of “St. Joseph” and “St. Leopold” . The reorganization took place 1680-1681. Around 1730-1740, the fountains were significantly changed. In 1804, the saints sculptures designed by the sculptor Joseph Frühwirth were replaced by lead figures by Johann Martin Fischer and the fountains were restored or redesigned. [1]

Below the Josefsbrunnen, in 1904/05, Vienna’s oldest underground public utility , the public public utility on the Graben , was built. For this purpose, first the Josefsbrunnen had to be removed and later re-erected. In the course of a renovation of the public institution of need around 1987/88 also over it Josefsbrunnen was redeveloped.


Cartier, Kohlmarkt, Vienna


Chanel Building, Tuchlauben, Vienna


Rozet & Fischmeister, Kohlmarkt 11, Vienna

Rozet & Fischmeister jewellery business was established in 1770, has been among Vienna’s most famous gold and silversmiths.


Hofburg Palace, Michaelerplatz, Vienna


Café Griensteidl, Michaelerplatz, Vienna


Michaelskirche (Catholic Church of St Michael), Michaelerplatz, Vienna


Roman Ruins, Michaelerplatz, (Historic Centre of Vienna), Vienna

The ruins on the Michaeler Platz in the city centre were uncovered between 1989 and 1991. 

Under the remains from the Renaissance-period, the foundation walls of the old Hofburg Theatre (built in 1776) and rented houses of the 18th century (demolished in 1889) there are structural remains of the canabae legionis, the settlement outside the Roman legionary fortress Vindobona. In the settlement lived the families (i.e. concubines and children) of the legionaries, there were also some inns, shops and brothels. The settlement was probably destroyed between 168 and 180 by Marcomans.

There has been a crossroads of two main streets – the “Amber street” from the Aquae region (today Baden south from Vienna) and the street along the limes – since the 1st century.


Coat of Arms, Ferdinand I, In der Burg, The Hofburg, Vienna


Statue, Kaiser Franz I, Löwelstraße, The Hofburg, Vienna

Franz Joseph Karl from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine was from 1792 to 1806 as Franz II the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In 1804 he founded the empire of Austria, which he reigned as Francis I until his death.


Sentry Box, Löwelstraße, The Hofburg, Vienna


The Emperor’s Gate (Kaisertor), The Hofburg, Vienna


Lamp, The Hofburg, Vienna


Dome, The Hofburg, Vienna


Statuary, The Hofburg, Vienna


Heraldry, Michaelertor Entrance To Michaelerplatz Hofburg Imperial Palace Complex Vienna


Memorial Plate, St Michael’s Church, Michaelerplatz, Vienna

Honor and thanks the Women of Austria for their heroic work in the world wars 1914-1918


Laneway, Habsburgergasse, Vienna


Friedensbrücke (Peace Bridge), Danube Canal, Alserbachstraße, Vienna



Vienna, Austria 2017 Part II

Tramlines, Alserbachstraße, Vienna, Austria


Westbanhof Tram, Alserbachstraße, Vienna, Austria


Old Building, Alserbachstraße, Vienna, Austria


Railway Map, Friedensbrücke Station, Vienna, Austria


St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Domkirche Street, Stephansplatz, Vienna, Austria


St Peter’s Catholic Church, Petersplatz, Vienna, Austria


Eisgrübel, Goldschmiedgasse 10, Vienna


Fiaker Horse Team, Jungferngasse, Vienna


Mozart Plaque, Am Hof 13, Palais Collalto, Vienna


Former Civic Armoury, Am Hof, Vienna


Mariensäule (Marian Column), Am Hof, Vienna


Window Advertisement, Heldinnen & Helden, Heidenschuß, Vienna


Street Lamp, Herrengasse, Vienna


Street Sign, Josef-Meinrad-Platz, Vienna


Rathaus (Town Hall), Friedrich Schmidt Platz, Vienna


Burgtheater, Josef Meinrad Platz, Vienna


Street Lamp, Löwelstraße, Vienna


Metastasiogasse (off Löwelstraße), Vienna


President’s Office, Löwelstraße, Vienna


Fiaker Horse Team, Michaelerplatz, Vienna


Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, Vienna


Erzherzog Karl (Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen), Heldenplatz, Vienna


Dome of The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ringstraße, Vienna


The Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel, Vienna



Vienna 2017 Part I – Doors & Windows

A trip backwards to repost what was lost when changing hosts last year – Our holiday from 2017


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Mondial Apartments Entrance, Pfluggasse, Vienna, Austria

This was where we stayed


Inside St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Domkirche Street, Stephansplatz, Vienna, Austria


Doorway, Goldschmiedgasse 4, Vienna, Austria


Neuwallsches Haus, Schulhof, Vienna, Austria c.1728


Grand Entrance, Josef Meinrad Platz, Vienna, Austria


Door, Burgtheater (Austrian National Theatre), Josef Meinrad Platz, Vienna, Austria


Doorway, Burgtheater, Universitätsring, Vienna, Austria


Window, Prasindentenkonferenz der Landwirtschaftskammer, Löwelstraße, Vienna, Austria


Haus-Löwelstraße, Löwelstraße 6, Vienna, Austria c.1566


Doorway, Police Inspectorate, Ballhausplatz, Vienna, Austria


Archway, Courtyard of Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria


Entrance to Palais Pallavicini, Josefplatz, Vienna, Austria


Door, Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat HB, Dorotheergasse, Viena, Austria


Door, Salvatorianer Kolleg St Michael Provinzialat, Habsburgergasse 12, Vienna, Austria


Habsburgergasse 12, Vienna, Austria


Entrance, Kohlmarkt 4, Vienna, Austria


Entrance, Kohlmarkt 16, Vienna, Austria


Doorway, Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria


Window, Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria


Palace Gate to Heldenplatz, In der Burg, The Hofburg, Vienna, Austria


Door, The Hofburg, Vienna, Austria


Antique Shop Window, Laneway, Habsburgergasse, Vienna, Austria


Doorway to Palais Equitable, Kärntner Straße, Vienna, Austria


Mondial Apartments Entrance, Pfluggasse, Vienna, Austria


Doorway, Schloß Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße, Vienna, Austria


Doorway, Schloß Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße, Vienna, Austria


Window, Schloß Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße, Vienna, Austria


Kaiserliche Wagenburg, Schloß Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße, Vienna, Austria

“Imperial Carriage Museum”


Doorway, Schloß Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße, Vienna, Austria


External Gate, Schönbrunn Palace, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47, Vienna, Austria


Doorway, Julius Tandler Platz 9, Vienna, Austria


Colourful Doorway, Lampigasse 19, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria


Café Restaurant Augarten Wall, Obere Augartenstraße, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria