Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #20 in Vienna, Austria
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Experience Vienna in Austria in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in ViennaIndividual Sights in ViennaSight 1: Remise Transport Museum
The Vienna Transport Museum "Remise", formerly the Viennese Tram Museum, is a museum in Vienna, Austria, run by Wiener Linien and dedicated to public transport. It is the largest tram museum dedicated to the public transit vehicles of a single city.
Sight 2: Donauprallhang
The list of natural monuments in Vienna/Landstraße lists all objects designated as natural monuments in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstraße. According to the definition of the City of Vienna, the eleven natural monuments are ten individual natural monuments and one extensive natural monument.
Sight 3: Linienwall
The Linienwall was the outer line of the fortifications for the city of Vienna, Austria, that lay between the city’s suburbs and outlying villages. Constructed in 1704, it was razed in 1894 to make way for the Vienna Beltway.
Sight 4: Maria Geburt
The parish church of the Nativity of 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 in the Vicariate of Vienna, city of the Archdiocese of Vienna. The church is a listed building (list entry). It was the church of the former orphanage on Rennweg, from which its common name Waisenhauskirche originates.
Sight 5: Villa Mautner-Jäger
The Villa Mautner-Jäger is a building in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstraße. It is located on Landstraßer Hauptstraße and is a listed building (list entry).
Sight 6: Herz-Jesu Kirche
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a Roman Catholic church and branch church of the parish church Rennweg in the 3rd district of Vienna.
Sight 7: Aspang Railway Station Memorial
The Aspangbahnhof memorial was opened in Vienna in September 2017 – 75 years after the last deportations from this station in the east of the city. It commemorates people who were deported from Vienna by the National Socialist rulers between 1939 and 1942. It is located on the site of the former Aspang railway station in Wien-Landstraße, the third district of Vienna. On February 1, 1941, the head of the Vienna Gestapo, Karl Ebner, announced the first 13 directives for the deportation of Vienna's Jewish population to the director of the Jewish community. From this station, 47,035 people were deported to the concentration camps and extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Only 1073 people survived these death trains.
Sight 8: Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien
The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna is a botanical garden in Vienna, Austria. It covers 8 hectares and is immediately adjacent to the Belvedere gardens. It is a part of the University of Vienna.
Wikipedia: Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna (EN), Website
Sight 9: Belvedere
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.
Sight 10: 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 of Landstraße and was erected on 25 October 1966. It is not to be confused with the Republic Monument on the Ringstrasse.
Sight 11: Schweizergarten
The Schweizergarten is a park in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße, between the park of the Belvedere or the Landstraßer Gürtel in the north, the Quartier Belvedere or Arsenalstraße in the west and the Arsenal or Ghegastraße in the southeast.
Sight 12: Belvedere 21
Belvedere 21, formerly 21er Haus or Einundzwanziger Haus, is a modernist style steel and glass building designed by Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975). Originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion or temporary showroom for the Expo 58 in Brussels, it was later transferred to Vienna to house the Museum of the 20th Century, which explains why it was first nicknamed "20er Haus". Between 1979 and 2001, the building also acted as a depository for contemporary art works. From 2009 to 2011, it was remodeled by the architect Adolf Krischanitz and consequently renamed 21er Haus to reflect the 21st century. It was renamed Belvedere 21 in 2018.
Sight 13: 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 apartment buildings of late historicist and secessionist character, which Felix Czeike and Friedrich Achleitner described as having different architectural qualities.
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