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The Zeiss Planetarium of the city of Vienna is considered one of the most modern planetaries in the world. It is located in Vienna's Prater and is set in a common building with the Pratermuseum. Together with the Kuffner and the Urania observatory, the planetarium is a specialized institution of the Vienna Volkshochschulen.
The Wiener Riesenrad, or simply Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
The Vienna State Opera is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, and designs by Josef Hlávka. The opera house was inaugurated as the "Vienna Court Opera" in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It became known by its current name after the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1921. The Vienna State Opera is the successor of the old Vienna Court Opera. The new site was chosen and the construction paid by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1861.
The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the third district of the city, on the south-eastern edge of its centre. It houses the Belvedere museum. The grounds are set on a gentle gradient and include decorative tiered fountains and cascades, Baroque sculptures, and majestic wrought iron gates. The Baroque palace complex was built as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy.
The Mozarthaus Vienna was Mozart's residence from 1784 to 1787. The building is located in Vienna's Old Town, not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is his only surviving Viennese residence. It is now a museum.
Belvedere 21 is a building that was erected in 1958 as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels and was used in Vienna from 1962 to 2001 as a museum of the 20th century and as a branch of the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK). For this purpose, it was moved from Brussels to the Schweizergarten in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße.
The Church of St. Josef is a Roman Catholic branch church of the parish of Kahlenbergerdorf on the Kahlenberg in the 19th district of Döbling in Vienna. Before that, the former monastery church was the parish church of the settlement or former community of Josefsdorf on the Kahlenberg. It is dedicated to St. Joseph. The church is a listed building.
The Esslingen parish church is located in the centre of Essling, a Viennese district in the 22nd district of Donaustadt. The Roman Catholic parish church, dedicated to St. Joseph of Nazareth, belongs to the City Deanery 22 in the Vicariate of Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna. The church is a listed building.
The Spanish Riding School is an Austrian institution dedicated to the preservation of classical dressage and the training of Lipizzaner horses, based in Vienna, Austria, whose performances in the Hofburg are also a tourist attraction. The leading horses and riders of the school also periodically tour and perform worldwide. It is one of the "Big Four", the most prestigious classical riding academies in the world, alongside the Cadre Noir, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art, and the Royal Andalusian School.
The Albrechtsbrunnen, also known as Danubiusbrunnen, is a fountain in the 1st district of Vienna, the inner city. It is located on the Augustinerbastei and bears his name after Feldmarschall Archduke Albrecht von Austria-Teschen, who lived in the building of today's Albertina on the Bastei, the Palais Archduke Albrecht.
The imperial crypt, also a capuchin crypt or imperial crypt at the P.P. Called in Vienna, is a burial site of the Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine in Vienna. The crypt is located on the Neuer Markt under the Capuchin monastery and is looked after by the religious brothers of the same name, the Capuchiners. In terms of space, it is the largest grade system in Austria, according to the number of buried the second largest-after the Batthyány family crypt in Güssing.
12. Palm House
The Palmenhaus Schönbrunn is a large greenhouse in Vienna, Austria featuring plants from around the world. It opened in 1882. It is the most prominent of the four greenhouses in Schönbrunn Palace Park, and is also among the largest botanical exhibits of its kind in the world, with around 4,500 plant species.
13. Neptune Fountain
The Neptune fountain in the Schönbrunner Schlosspark was built in the course of the redesign of the facility under Empress Maria Theresia between 1778 and 1780. The fountain is a good hundred meters long, almost fifty meters wide and without figures a little over seven meters high.
14. Votivkirche
The Votivkirche is a neo-Gothic style church located on the Ringstraße in Vienna, Austria. Following the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1853, the Emperor's brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaugurated a campaign to create a church to thank God for saving the Emperor's life. Funds for construction were solicited from throughout the Empire. The church was dedicated in 1879 on the silver anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Empress Elisabeth.
15. Graben
The Graben is one of the most famous squares in Vienna's first district, the city center. It begins at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz next to the Palais Equitable, and ends at the junction of Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben. Another street in the first district is called Tiefer Graben. It is crossed by Wipplinger Straße by means of the Hohe Brücke, a bridge about 10 meters (33 ft) above street level.
16. Austrian Museum of Applied Arts
The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the museum especially focuses on architecture and contemporary art. The museum has been at its current location since 1871. Since 2004 the building is illuminated in the evenings by the permanent outdoor installation "MAKlite" of American artist James Turrell. In 2015 the MAK became the first museum to use bitcoin to acquire art, when it purchased the screensaver "Event listeners" of van den Dorpel. With over 300,000 objects displayed online, the MAK presents the largest online collection within the Austrian Federal Museums. The audio guide to this museum is provided as a web-based app.
17. Mahnmal Aspangbahnhof
The memorial Aspangbahnhof was opened in Vienna in September 2017 - 75 years after the last deportations of this train station in the east of the city. It is reminiscent of people who were deported from Vienna by the National Socialist rulers between 1939 and 1942. It is located in the area of the former Aspangbahnhof in Vienna-Landstrasse, the third district of Vienna. On February 1, 1941, the Viennese Gestapo boss Karl Ebner announced the first 13 instructions for the deportation of the Jewish population of Vienna to the official director of the cultural community. From this train station, 47,035 people were deported to Eastern Europe in the concentration camps and extermination camps. Only 1073 people survived these deaths.
18. Palais Liechtenstein (Gartenpalais)
The garden palace Liechtenstein is a baroque palace on Fürstengasse in the 9th district of Vienna, Alsergrund. A park is located between the Palais, in which the Liechtenstein Museum was until the end of 2011, and the "Alserbachpalais" originally executed as a Belvedere. The Gartenpalais Liechtenstein has been available as a place for events since the beginning of 2012. Part of the private art collection of the prince of and to Liechtenstein is still in the gallery rooms of the palace. In 2010 it began to officially call the Palais to avoid confusion as garden palaces, since the Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in the old town of Vienna was renovated until 2013 and then also equipped with part of the Liechtenstein art collection.
Wikipedia: Palais Liechtenstein (Fürstengasse) (DE), Website
19. Pfarrkirche Neusimmering
The Roman Catholic Neusimmering parish church is located in Vienna's 11th district of Simmering on Enkplatz and is a listed building. It was built between 1907 and 1910 according to designs by the architect Hans (Johann) Schneider in the Neo-Romanesque style and is dedicated to Mary, Immaculate Conception. The parish of Neusimmering, which belongs to the parish church, is located in the city deanery 11 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. On 1 April 2018, the parish of Neusimmering was merged with the parishes of Hasenleiten and St. Lukas to form the parish of Divine Love. Since then, the parish church of Neusimmering has been the parish church of the parish of Divine Love.
20. Augartenpalais
Palais Augarten is a Baroque palace in the district of Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria. Constructed in the late seventeenth century by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach on the site of a Jagdschloss and gardens, the palace and gardens were expanded in the nineteenth century under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Despite extensive damage suffered during World War II, the palace has been maintained almost in its original appearance, and many of the original furnishings can still be found there. Today, Palais Augarten is the home and rehearsal space of the Vienna Boys' Choir, who also have their own school there. The palace is located in the 130-acre Augarten park, which is the oldest Baroque garden in Vienna.
21. House of the Sea
The Haus des Meeres is a public aquarium in Vienna, Austria. It is located in Esterhazy Park in downtown Mariahilf district, one block south of the busy Mariahilfer Straße. The Haus des Meeres houses over ten thousand aquatic beings on an area of around 4,000 square meters (43,000 sq ft) inside a tall concrete flak tower built during World War II. In 2012 the Haus des Meeres attracted a record high of 650,000 visitors. The Haus des Meeres is managed by Aqua Terra Zoo, a private non-profit organization which, according to its web site, receives only marginal financial support from municipal authorities. However, the maintenance costs for the former flak tower are paid by the taxpayer.
22. Kongresspark
The congress park is a 61,000 m² public park in Ottakring in the western Vienna, on the district border with Hernals. He was created in 1927/28 on a former sand of the architect Erich Franz Leischner's plans and is to be understood in the ensemble with the neighboring municipal residential complexes of the 1920s. At the same time as the park, the congress pool, which was subsequently, was built. The extensive congress park with its extensive play opportunities for children plays an important role in the still populated outer west of the Vienna core city for leisure activities and also attracts visitors from other parts of the 16th and 17th districts.
23. Kuffner Observatory
The Kuffner observatory is one of two telescope-equipped public astronomical observatories situated in Austria's capital, Vienna. It is situated in the West of the city's Ottakring district, on the slope of the Gallitzinberg at 302 m altitude. Originally a private research institution, it was converted into an educational astronomy facility after World War II as buildings and city lights had encroached to a degree that severely hampered scientific nightsky observations. Today the main tasks of the observatory consist in public education on astronomy, operating and preserving the historical equipment, and minor projects in scientific astronomy.
24. Marionettentheater Schloss Schönbrunn
The Marionettentheater Schloss Schönbrunn is a marionet theater founded in 1994. It is located in the Hofrattract Castle Schönbrunn in the 13th Vienna district of Hietzing and organizes theater performances and operas for adults and children. The marionet theater is run as a private theater. The two founders and artistic director, Christine Hierzer-Riedler and Werner Hierzer, can look back on over 40 years of international experience in the art of playing the puppet. The game with puppets has a long tradition in Schönbrunn. Already during Mozart's lifetime, Empress Maria Theresias played the marionet theater founded by Fürst Esterházy.
Wikipedia: Marionettentheater Schloss Schönbrunn (DE), Website
25. Eisenbahnerfarm
Settlements in the former Lainz Tiergarten were created in the twenties and thirties of the 20th century in Vienna near the Vienna of the Lainzer Tiergarten, which was then part of Lower Austria, one of the public forest that was not accessible to the public until 1918. The area of these settlements, like the Tiergarten in 1938, was incorporated into the majority of National Socialism. Even then, the south -facing settlements were assigned to the 13th district of Vienna, Hietzing, the Tiergarten itself and the railway farm in 1956. All settlements, like most of the zoo, belong to the catastral community Auhof.
26. Leopoldsberg
The Leopoldsberg is perhaps Vienna’s most famous hill, towering over the Danube and the city. Leopoldberg’s most prominent landmark is the church which stands at the top, and which is clearly visible from Vienna below. Construction of the Leopoldsberg church, dedicated to Saint Leopold, began in 1679; an expansion following a design by Antonio Beduzzi was undertaken 1718–30. Other renovations were to follow. Across the square from the church, on what used to be a tower of the fortification system, a memorial to those Austrians who returned home from captivity after World War II was created in 1948.
27. Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Kunsthalle Wien is the city of Vienna's institution for international contemporary art and discourse with two locations, in the Museumsquartier and at Karlsplatz. Kunsthalle Wien does not have a collection of its own, but instead dedicates its changing solo and thematic exhibitions to art and its relations to social change. It produces exhibitions, researches art practices, and supports local and international artists. It seeks to ground its knowledge of international contemporary art in and for Vienna, and advocates for the usefulness of artistic thinking in the wider public sphere.
28. Klinik Penzing
The Penzing clinic is located in the 14th district of Penzing, on the Baumgartner Höhe. The clinic is in its organizational form a merger of five formerly independent institutions of the Vienna Health Care; these include the Social Education Center »Baumgartner Höhe«, the Neurological Hospital of the City of Vienna »Maria-Theresien-Schlössel«, the nursing home »Sanatorium Strasse« and the Psychiatric Hospital »Baumgartner Höhe« and the Pulmological Center »Baumgartner Höhe«. The individual departments of these institutions remained unchanged.
29. Jüdischer Friedhof Währing
The Jewish Cemetery in Währing, opened in 1784, was the main burial site for members of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. Besides the St. Marx Cemetery it is the last remaining cemetery of Vienna in the Biedermeier style. After its closure in the 1880s, it was partially destroyed during the time of the Third Reich, and is now only partly accessible due to its deteriorating condition. A long-running debate over the restoration of the cemetery has been taking place since 2006 between politicians of the federal and local levels as well as experts.
30. Wohnhausanlage Breitenfurter Straße 401–413
The residential building Breitenfurter Straße 401–413, also known as the “Breitenfurter Fisch”, is located in the south of Vienna in the 23rd municipality of Liesing. It was built in 1984–1987 in accordance with plans by Luxembourg architect Rob Krier together with architect Hedwig Wachberger and architect Peter Gebhard. A total concept was developed from three different individual ideas. Between Liesingbach and Breitenfurter Straße, a postmodern-style facility was built with a fish-shaped floor plan shape, which covers 324 housing units.
31. Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages
The Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages, commonly known as the Esperanto Museum, is a museum for Esperanto and other constructed languages in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1927 by Hofrat Hugo Steiner and was incorporated into the Austrian National Library as an independent collection in 1928. Today, it is a museum, library, documentation center, and archive. It accommodates the largest collection of constructed languages in the world and a linguistic research library for language planning. Its catalogue is available online.
Wikipedia: Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages (EN), Website
32. Hochstrahlbrunnen
The high-jet fountain is a fountain in Vienna. It is located at Schwarzenbergplatz and was put into operation on the occasion of the completion of the First Vienna Hochquellenwasserleitung after a construction period of four months on 24 October 1873 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Prince Johann Adolf II of Schwarzenberg had agreed to the construction of the well in September 1872 and requested that the “discharge of water quantum” be used to “irrigate the facilities existing there and dedicated to public pleasure”.
33. Donnerbrunnen
Donnerbrunnen is the popular name for the Providentia fountain designed by Georg Raphael Donner and built between 1737 and 1739 on the Neuer Markt in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt. The Viennese, however, had little use for the term providentia, which is why they named it after its builder. In art history, the Flour Market Fountain is often mentioned, as the New Market was still called the Flour Market in the 18th century. During the construction of an underground car park, the well was temporarily removed from 2018 to 2022.
34. Lichtentaler Pfarrkirche
The Lichtental Parish Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Lichtental, now part of Vienna, Austria. Officially the Lichtentaler Pfarrkirche zu den heiligen vierzehn Nothelfern, it is dedicated to the Fourteen Holy Helpers. The church has elements of Baroque and Neoclassical architecture. It is also known as the Schubertkirche, because Franz Schubert was baptised there in 1797 and wrote several compositions for use in the church, including his first mass for the centenary, first performed on 25 September 1814.
35. Maria Geburt
The Parish Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstraße near Rennweg 91. Since 1 October 2017, the Parish Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary has been the parish church of the parish of Maria-Drei-Kirchen in the City Deanery 3 of the Vicariate of Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna. The church is a listed building. It was the church of the former orphanage on Rennweg, from which its common name orphanage church originates.
36. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the modern Serbian language. For his collection and preservation of Serbian folktales, Encyclopædia Britannica labelled him "the father of Serbian folk-literature scholarship." He was also the author of the first Serbian dictionary in the new reformed language. In addition, he translated the New Testament into the reformed form of the Serbian spelling and language.
37. Madame Tussauds Vienna
Madame Tussauds Vienna is a wax museum and tourist attraction located at the famous amusement park Wiener Prater in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Marie Tussaud and is the eleventh location for the Tussauds franchise. It officially opened on 1 April 2011 by the former Austrian president Heinz Fischer. So far, it features more than 80 figures on three floors. Madame Tussauds is now owned and operated by the United Kingdom-based entertainment company Merlin Entertainments.
38. St. Maria Malankara
The Lainzer Kirche is a church of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church in the district of Lainz in the 13th district of Hietzing in Vienna, at Lainzer Straße 154a. Originally dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity, the Roman Catholic parish church of Lainz and Speising was a Syriac Orthodox church under the patronage of St. Ephrem from 1974 to 2015. Since 2015, it has been a place of worship of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church under the patronage of St. Maria Malankara.
39. Hermesvilla
Hermesvilla is a palace in the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna, a former hunting area for the Habsburg nobility. Emperor Franz Joseph I gave it to his wife Empress Elisabeth, and he called it the "castle of dreams.“ The name of the villa refers to a statue of Hermes made of white marble that is located in the garden of the villa. Today, the Hermesvilla is noted for its art and natural setting, and is used by the Vienna Museum for special exhibitions on cultural history.
40. Miller-von-Aichholz Schlössel
The Miller-Aichholz Castle, now also called Europahaus Vienna, at Linzer Straße 429 was originally a baroque building in the Vienna suburb of Hütteldorf. The place was incorporated in 1892 in the new 13th district of Vienna, Hietzing, and has been part of the 14th district of Vienna, Penzing since 1938. The historical property with its extensive park is owned by the Republic of Austria. Today the castle can be booked for weddings, solemn events and seminars.
41. Pfarrkirche Liesing
The parish church of Liesing is a Roman Catholic round church in the 23rd district of Liesing in Vienna and is located in Färbermühlgasse 6. It is the largest church in the city deanate 23. The building built from 1953 to 1955 is Maria, mother of the divine Grace and the patron of the old church, the sacred servant. The ringing of the parish church consists of four bells, which are located in the 38 -meter -high tower that has been moved away from the church.
42. Austrian National Theatre
The Burgtheater, originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the national theater of Austria in Vienna. It is the most important German-language theater and one of the most important theatres in the world. The Burgtheater was opened in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the Viennese population; its theater company has created a traditional style and speech typical of Burgtheater performances.
43. Ganserlberg
The Ganserlberg is a hill in the 18th district of Vienna, Germany. It forms the continuation of the mountain range from the Schafberg via the Mitterberg and the Gürtel to the Brünnlfeld and is part of the Vienna Woods Mountains. At the same time, the ridge formed the right, southern bank of the Währinger Bach and the left, northern bank of the Alserbach. Today, the hill occupies the area between Anton-Baumann-Park and Johann-Nepomuk-Vogl-Platz.
44. Maria Mutter der Kirche
The residential park church Maria Mother of the Church is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Atzgersdorf district in the 23rd Vienna district of Liesing in the Alt-Erlaa residential park at Anton-Baumgartner-Straße 44. Until the end of March 2023 it was the parish church of the parish of Alterlaa, this parish became this parish With the same date and with the neighboring parish Neu-Erlaa under the new name parish St. John XXIII. merged.
45. Rudolf-Bednar-Park
Opened in 2008, the Rudolf Bednar Park in Vienna's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt, is the largest Viennese park built since 1974. The park, named after the head of the district from 1977 to 1984, is surrounded in the northeast by new blocks of houses on Vorgartenstraße, in the southeast by the newly created Jakov-Lind-Straße, in the southwest by the Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner campus and in the northwest by the newly created Krakauer Straße.
46. Brigittakirche
The Roman Catholic parish church Brigittakirche is located in the 20th district of Vienna, Brigittenau, which was separated from the 2nd district in 1900 on Brigittaplatz. It was built between 1866 and 1874 in neo-Gothic style according to plans by the architect Friedrich von Schmidt and is dedicated to St. Brigitta. The parish is located in the city deanery 2/20 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna.
47. Maria Schmerzen im Kaasgraben
The Kaasgrabenkirche, also known as the Wallfahrtskirche “Mariä Schmerzen”, is a Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church in the suburb of Grinzing in the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling. The church has been managed since 1903 by the order of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and is equally the seat of the branch of the order covering Austria and Southern Germany. It has had the status of a parish church since 1939.
48. Tegetthoff-Denkmal
The Tegetthoff monument in Vienna was designed by Carl Kundmann (statue) and Carl von Hasenauer (architecture) and commemorates Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, vice-admiral and commander of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian navies in the 1860s. It was unveiled on 21 September 1886 on the Praterstern at the end of Praterstrasse in Vienna's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt, at one of the most important traffic junctions in the city of Vienna.
49. Faschismus-Mahnmal
The memorial against war and fascism is a work by the Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka. It has been standing since 1988 on the Albertinaplatz in Vienna – named after Helmut Zilk in 2009 – opposite the Palais Archduke Albrecht and the back of the Vienna State Opera. As a walk-in monument, it is intended to serve as a reminder of the darkest epoch in Austrian history. It is dedicated to all victims of war and fascism.
50. Spinnerin am Kreuz
The German name Spinnerin am Kreuz is the title given to two separate Austrian stone-tower sculptures, one in Vienna and the other in the nearby city of Wiener Neustadt. They are related to the story of a wife spinning beside a cross. Both columns had been designed originally by Meister Michael Knab:in Vienna, the stone tower was built in 1375, rebuilt c.1452; in Wiener Neustadt, the stone tower was built in 1382-84.
51. Pfarrkirche Mariabrunn
The parish and pilgrimage church of Mariabrunn is a baroque Roman Catholic parish church in Hadersdorf, part of the 14th Vienna district of Penzing. The patronal feast is a Mariä's search and is celebrated on July 2nd. The church belongs to the city deanery 14 in the Vicariate Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna. The church building is structurally connected to the former Mariabrunn monastery.
Wikipedia: Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche Mariabrunn (DE), Website
52. Schottenkirche
The Schottenkirche is a parish church in Vienna attached to the Schottenstift, founded by Hiberno (Irish)-Scots Benedictine monks in the 12th century. In 1418, the Duke Albert V of Austria transferred it to the German-speaking Benedictine monks from the Melk Abbey during the Melker Reform initiated after the Council of Constance. The church was elevated to the rank of Basilica Minor in 1958.
53. Gallitzinberg
The Gallitzinberg is a forested hill in the West of Austria's capital, Vienna. While it is relatively inconspicuous in the broader context of the Northeastern end of the Wienerwald mountain range, it is nevertheless remarkable because of its multifaceted history, and because it functions as an important recreational area in the Western uphill part of the densely populated Ottakring district.
54. Kapuzinerkirche
The Capuchin Church in Vienna, Austria, is a Catholic church and monastery run by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Located on the Neuer Markt square in the Innere Stadt near the Hofburg Palace, the Capuchin Church is most famous for containing the Imperial Crypt, the final resting place for members of the House of Habsburg. The official name is the Church of Saint Mary of the Angels.
55. Pfarre St. Benedikt
The parish church of St. Benedikt am Leberberg is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 11th district of Simmering in Vienna, Germany. The parish is located in Deanery 11 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It was built in 1996 and 1997 and is dedicated to St. Benedict. It is currently the youngest parish church in the Archdiocese of Vienna.
56. Alois-Drasche-Park
The Alois-Drasche-Park in Vienna's 4th district, Wieden, is a 1.6-hectare traffic-free park near the Wiedner Gürtel, named after the cloth manufacturer and Wiedner benefactor Alois Drasche. The park is lined with upscale tenement houses of late historicist and secessionist character, which Felix Czeike and Friedrich Achleitner described as having varying architectural quality.
57. Johanneskirche
The Church of St. Johann zu Unterlaa (Johanneskirche) is a Roman Catholic church in the Unterlaa district in the 10th Vienna district of Favorites. It is considered one of the oldest churches in today's Vienna, since the high medieval components could go back to the first third of the 11th century. St. Johann zu Unterlaa is a branch church of the parish church of Oberlaa.
58. Pfarrkirche Cyrill und Method
The parish church of Cyrill & Methodius is a Roman Catholic parish church in the district of Neu-Stammersdorf in the cadastral municipality of Stammersdorf in the 21st district of Floridsdorf in Vienna. The parish is located in the city deanery 21 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is dedicated to Saints Cyril and Methodius.
Wikipedia: Pfarrkirche Cyrill und Method (Floridsdorf) (DE), Website
59. Neugebäude Palace
Neugebäude Palace is a large Mannerist castle complex in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria. It was built from 1569 onwards, at the behest of the Habsburg emperor Maximilian II. The site of the palace is said to be where the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent's tent was erected during the 1529 Siege of Vienna. The palace was apparently modeled after it.
60. Maria-Loretto-Kirche
The parish and pilgrimage church of Jedlesee is a Roman Catholic parish church at Lorettoplatz 1 in the district part of the 21st Vienna municipal district of Floridsdorf. The parish is located in the city dean of the Vicariate Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. She is consecrated to St. Maria Loreto. The building is under monument protection.
61. Zur heiligen Dreifaltigkeit
The parish church of Süßenbrunn is a Roman Catholic parish church on Süßenbrunner Platz in the district of Süßenbrunn of the 22nd Vienna municipal district of Donaustadt. It is consecrated to the Holy Trinity and belongs to the Deanery Wolkersdorf in the Vicariat under the Manhartsberg of the Archdiocese of Vienna. The building is under monument protection.
62. Justizanstalt Wien Mittersteig
The Wien-Mittersteig Prison is a special institution of the Austrian penal system in the 5th district of Vienna, Margareten. The prison is mainly used to house inmates of the execution of measures against sane, mentally abnormal offenders. On the other hand, mentally abnormal offenders who are not of sound mind are housed in the prisons of Göllersdorf and Asten.
63. Werkbundsiedlung
The Werkbund Estate in Vienna is a model housing estate opened in 1932 in the Lainz district of the 13th district, Hietzing, which is now largely owned by the Vienna City Council. The original 70, now 64 single-family houses were built by 31 architects from Germany and abroad. At its opening, it was described as the "largest building exhibition in Europe".
64. Kornhäuselturm
The Kornhäuselturm is a building built between 1825 and 1827 according to designs by Joseph Kornhäusel in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt. At the time of its construction, it was the tallest secular tower in Vienna. With a height of over 35 meters, it is the oldest high-rise building in Vienna according to the current Viennese building regulations.
65. Rumänisch-orthodoxe Kirche
The Romanian Orthodox Parish Church of the Holy Resurrection is a church in the 11th district of Simmering in Vienna. It is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox community of Vienna, the legal representative of the Romanian Orthodox Church – Patriarchate of Romania for Austria and belongs to the diocese of Central and Central Europe, located in Nuremberg.
Wikipedia: Rumänisch-orthodoxe Pfarrkirche (Wien-Simmering) (DE), Website
66. Hendlkreuz
The Bildstock Skinny Henne, also called Hendlkreuz, is a listed picture column at Laaer-Berg-Straße 100, on the back of the Laaer Berg, in the 10th district of Vienna Favoriten, district of Oberlaa. The original column was built in 1548 as the border stone by Max Beck from Leopoldsdorf. The reliefs on the tabernacle attachment are greatly weathered.
67. Krim
The Parish Church of St. Francis de Sales is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 19th district of Vienna and is dedicated to Saint Judas Thaddeus. The church is located at Pater-Zeininger-Platz No. 1, named after its former chaplain Josef Zeininger, which opened in 2023 Grätzlzentrum Frieda Krim and the parish office are located in the basement.
68. Prentlhof
The Prentlhof is a former hunting lodge in Vienna's 10th district Favoriten, in the district of Unterlaa in Klederinger Straße 169. It was created in the time of Maria Theresia under the name Thurner Hof. The first owner is no longer known; later the court passed over to the possession of the Maltese knight and is now under monument protection.
69. Joseph Wessely
The Joseph-Wessely monument is located north side at Linnéplatz next to the University of Natural Resources in the 19th Vienna district of Döbling. The monument in memory of the General Forest and Domain Inspector, Fora Academy Director in Mariabrunn and forest writer Joseph Wessely is a work by Rudolf Weyr and was unveiled on May 16, 1908.
70. Deutschmeister-Denkmal
The German Meister Monument is a monument to the German Championship Square in the 1st district of Vienna Innere City. It was the first great monument to the Danube Monarchy, dedicated not to a single person but to a troop unit. The German Master Monument in 1945 was possibly also a model for the Heroes of the Red Army in Schwarzenbergplatz.
71. Familienkirche
The Neuottakringer Church, the Roman Catholic parish church "Zur Heiligen Familie" in Vienna, was built between 1894 and 1898 under the protectorate of Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, a member of the Reichsrat. It is located in Vienna's 16th district of Ottakring between Wattgasse, Degengasse, Rückertgasse and Arnethgasse at Familienplatz.
72. Die Macht zu Lande
The power on land is a monumental wall fountain on the facade of the Michaelertract of the Hofburg on Michaelerplatz in the 1st district of Vienna Inner city. The fountain was designed by the sculptor Edmund von Hellmer, unveiled in 1897 and is under monument protection. On the opposite side of Michaelerplatz is the fountain power at sea.
73. Josefsbrunnen
The Josefsbrunnen is a fountain on the west side of the Plague Column on the Graben in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt. To the east of the Plague Column is the Leopold Fountain with very similar architecture and building history (48° 13′ N, 16° 22′ E). Taken together, they are often referred to as ditch wells in the literature.
74. Hl. Franz von Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi Church, also known as the Emperor's Jubilee Church and the Mexico Church, is a Basilica-style Catholic church in Vienna, Austria. Built between 1898 and 1910, it was consecrated in 1913. It is located on the Mexikoplatz in Vienna's Second District, Leopoldstadt, and is administered by the Order of the Holy Trinity.
75. George-Washington-Hof
The George-Washington-Hof is a large, listed municipal building in Triester Straße 52 in the 10th district of Vienna, Favorites, and on the Wienerbergstraße in the 10th and 12th district, Meidling. The construction is under monument protection and it is defined as a structural protection zone in both districts by the city of Vienna.
76. Jesuitenkirche (St. Ignatius)
The Jesuit Church, also known as the University Church, is a two-floor, double-tower church in Vienna, Austria. Influenced by early Baroque principles, the church was remodeled by Andrea Pozzo between 1703 and 1705. The Jesuit Church is located on Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz, immediately adjacent to the old University of Vienna buildings.
77. St. Johann Nepomuk
Johannes Nepomuk parish church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna's 2nd municipal district, Leopoldstadt, on Praterstraße. The parish is located in the dean office 2/20 of the Vicariates Wien Stadt, belonging to the Archdiocese of Vienna. She is dedicated to St. John Nepomuk. The building is under monument protection.
78. Donauinsel
The Donauinsel is a long, narrow artificial island in central Vienna, Austria, lying between the Danube river and the parallel excavated channel Neue Donau. The island is 21.1 km (13.1 mi) in length, but is only 70–210 m (230–689 ft) wide. It was constructed from 1972 to 1988 primarily as a measure for flood protection.
79. Staatsgründungsdenkmal
The State Foundation Monument is a monument erected to commemorate the founding of the Austrian Republic in 1918 and its resurrection in 1945. It is located in the Schweizergarten in Vienna's 3rd district Landstraße and was erected on 25 October 1966. It is not to be confused with the Republic Monument on the Ringstrasse.
80. Karmeliterkirche
The parish church of St. Josef is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt on Karmeliterplatz. The parish is located in the Deanery 2/20 of the Vicariate Vienna City belonging to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is subject to the patronal feast St. Joseph. The building is under monument protection.
81. Geymüllerschlössel
The Geymüllerschlössel is a small palace situated in Pötzleinsdorf, a neighborhood in Vienna's suburban outskirts. It is a branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art, displaying a diverse collection of furniture and decorative art from the Biedermeier period as well as Franz Sobek's clock collection.
82. Funeral Museum
The Bestattungsmuseum Wien is a museum in Vienna, Austria. With around 1,000 exhibits, the Vienna Funeral Museum gives a comprehensive overview of funeral customs, burial rites, funerary art and the special Viennese perspective on death and provides information on the historical and current funeral services in Vienna.
83. Theater am Alsergrund
The Theater am Alsergrund is a cabaret and event stage in the 9th district of Vienna, Alsergrund, which was founded by Andreas Hutter (1961–2010) and began operating for the first time on 7 October 1995 in a coal cellar converted by Hutter himself. The theatre is run as an association and offers space for 68 people.
84. Hundsturmer Linienkapelle
The Hundsturmer Chapel is a Roman-Catholic former line chapel in the 5th district of Vienna, Margareten, on the corner of Schönbrunner Straße and St.-Johann-Gasse on the edge of the Bruno-Kreisky Park and belongs to the parish church of St. Josef in Margareten. It is one of the few line bands in Vienna to this day.
85. Maria Grün
The Maria Grün pilgrimage church is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage and branch church in the Prater in the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt. The church is a branch church of the parish of Donaustadt and is located in the Deanery 2/20 of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. She is consecrated to St. Mary.
86. Johannes-Nepomuk-Statue
The statue of St. John of Nepomuk is a baroque statue of a saint on Oberlaaer Platz 9, in front of the parish church of Oberlaa "Zum heilige Aegidius", in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten, district of Oberlaa. The object is registered in the digital register of cultural property of the City of Vienna (list entry).
Wikipedia: Johannes-Nepomuk-Statue am Kirchenplatz Oberlaa (DE)
87. Maria Hietzing
Maria Hietzing is a Roman Catholic parish church in the district of Hietzing in Vienna, the 13th district of Hietzing. The parish is located in the Dean of 13 of the Vicariates of Vienna, a member of the Archdiocese of Vienna. She is dedicated to the Feast of Mary's birth. The building is under monument protection.
88. Johannes-Nepomuk-Kapelle
The Johannes Nepomuk Chapel, also known as the Chapel of the Ski Jumping, was consecrated to the priest and martyr Johannes Nepomuk on the Upper Donaustraße in Wilhelm Kienzl Park in Vienna and is under monument protection. The statue of the Saint here is one of the numerous John Nepomuk representations in Vienna.
Wikipedia: Johannes-Nepomuk-Kapelle (Obere Donaustraße) (DE)
89. Otto Wagner Villa
Villa Wagner I has been a villa building at Hüttelbergstrasse 26 in Hütteldorf, built from 1886 to 1888 according to plans by Otto Wagner, part of the 13th district since 1890/1892 since 1938. The villa is currently in possession of the heirs of the painter Ernst Fuchs and houses the Ernst Fuchs private museum.
90. Johann Strauss Monument
The Johann bouquet monument is located in the Vienna City Park and is one of the most photographed monuments in Vienna. In memory of the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss (son), it was built next to the Kursalon Hübner. His name is based on the spelling of his family name, which is common at the time the construction.
91. St. Leopold
The Parish Church of St. Leopold is a Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna's 2nd district Leopoldstadt at Alexander-Poch-Platz 6. The parish is located in deanery 2/20 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is dedicated to St. Leopold. The building is a listed building.
92. Januariskapelle
The (garden) Palais Harrach was located in Hungargasse, today's order numbers 67a-69, in Vienna's suburb Landstrasse, part of the 3rd district since 1850, on the area on which the Hungarian school center (SZU) today has existed. The very large property extended to Juchgasse, Boerhaavegasse and Barmherzigengasse.
93. Globenmuseum
The Globe Museum is a museum in the Palais Mollard, Vienna, Austria, part of the Austrian National Library. It was opened in 1956, and is the only public museum in the world devoted to globes, being three-dimensional models of Earth or other celestial bodies, or spherical representations of the celestial sphere.
94. Haus 1
The Semmelweis-Frauenklinik is a women's clinic in the 18th district of Vienna known as Währing. It is named after Ignaz Semmelweis. The clinic is registered as an historically significant place and is to be found at Bastiengasse 36–38 in Vienna. It encompasses six five-story pavilions surrounded by a park.
95. St.-Antonius-von-Padua-Kirche
The parish church of Schwarzlackenau is a Roman Catholic parish church in the district of Schwarze Lackenau of the 21st Vienna municipal district of Floridsdorf. The parish is located in the city dean of the Vicariate Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is consecrated to St. Antonius.
96. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Parish Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Floridsdorf district of the 21st district of Vienna. The parish is located in the city deanery 21 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
97. Böhmischer Prater
The Bohemian Prater is a small amusement park at the edge of Vienna, in Favoriten, Vienna's 10th district. It dates to the second half of the 19th century, and some of the rides are more than 100 years old. The name is derived from the larger Wiener (Viennese) Prater in Vienna's Leopoldstadt (2nd) district.
98. Pfarrkirche Neumargareten
The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 12th district of Meidling in Vienna, Germany. The location on the district border with Margareten is reflected in the name of the parish of Neumargareten, a former district of Margareten, which later became part of Meidling.
99. Schulzentrum Friesgasse
The educational campus Flora Fries is an educational location of the association of religious schools in Austria and is located in the 15th Vienna district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus. The Catholic private school with public law was founded by the poor school sisters by the order community by our dear wife.
100. St. Paul - P.A.-Hansson-Siedlung Ost
The parish church of St. Paul is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Ost in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten. The parish is located in Deanery 10 of the Vicariate of Vienna City, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Vienna. It was built in 1975 and is dedicated to St. Paul.
Wikipedia: Pfarrkirche St. Paul (Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Ost) (DE), Website
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