Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Vienna, Austria

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 12.4 km
Ascend 250 m
Descend 304 m

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 Vienna

Sight 1: Schieberkammer

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Schieberkammer Manfred Werner - User:Tsui / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Alte Schieberkammer is a historic building and event centre located at Meiselstraße 20 in Vienna's 15th district. It was built between 1870 and 1873 as part of the Schmelz water reservoir of the First Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline on a hill opposite Schönbrunn Palace and served to accommodate blocking devices (gate valves) and pipes needed for the operation of the water tank. In 1995, the Schieberkammer was converted into an event centre in the course of the redevelopment of this area by the City of Vienna in cooperation with Wiener Städtische Versicherung, which built apartments and a shopping centre here.

Wikipedia: Alte Schieberkammer (DE)

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Rudolfsheimer Pfarrkirche Maria Königin der Märtyrer

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The Rudolfsheim parish church is a Roman Catholic parish church and is located in the 15th district of Vienna Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus on Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz. It is dedicated to the name of Mary, the Queen of Martyrs. The Rudolfsheim parish church has been the parish church of the parish of Hildegard Burjan since 2017.

Wikipedia: Rudolfsheimer Pfarrkirche (DE)

1148 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 3: Neufünfhauser Pfarr- und Gedächtniskirche Christus König

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Neufünfhauser Pfarr- und Gedächtniskirche Christus König

The Christ the King Church, also known as the Seipel-Dollfuß Memorial Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the 15th district of Vienna. From 1935 to 2016, it served as the parish church of the parish of Neufünfhaus and was called the "Neufünfhausen Parish and Memorial Church of Christ the King" during this time. On 1 January 2017, the parish of Neufünfhaus was merged with the parishes of Rudolfsheim and Schönbrunn-Vorpark to form the new parish of Hildegard Burjan. Since then, the Church of Christ the King has been a branch church of the parish of Hildegard Burjan.

Wikipedia: Pfarrkirche Neufünfhaus (DE)

582 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Märzpark

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Märzpark

The Märzpark is a park of around 16,000 m² in the 15th district of Vienna, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus. It was laid out in 1925 on a plot of land in the abandoned Schmelzer cemetery.

Wikipedia: Märzpark (DE)

1151 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 5: Renaissancetheater

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Renaissancetheater

The Renaissance Theatre is a Viennese theatre in Neubaugasse in the 7th district and currently serves as one of the venues for the Theater der Jugend. The theatre hall, for the installation of which the brothers Eduard and Emanuel Schweinburg were probably responsible, is located in a tenement house and has 667 seats. Since it is not an independent theatre building, it is often called the Renaissance stage.

Wikipedia: Renaissancetheater (Wien) (DE), Website

261 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: KosmosTheater

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The Kosmos Theater in Vienna is a production and performance venue at Siebensternplatz in Vienna's 7th district of Neubau.

Wikipedia: Kosmos Theater (Wien) (DE)

405 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Stiftskaserne

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Stiftskaserne

The Stiftkasernne, officially Stiftkaserne General Spannocchi, named after the officer Emil Spannocchi, also Amtsgebäude Stiftgasse General Spannocchi, in the 7th district of Vienna, Neubau, is a military building in Vienna. It is located in Stiftgasse 2 – 2a, a side street of Mariahilfer Straße. On the initiative of Defence Minister Thomas Starlinger, the name was named after Emil Spannocchi on 27 January 2020.

Wikipedia: Stiftskaserne (DE)

565 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Architecture Centre Vienna

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Architecture Centre Vienna Hertha Hurnaus / Copyrighted free use

The Architekturzentrum Wien is a museum in Vienna, in the Museumsquartier. It is conceived as a centre for exhibitions, events and research into architecture and related topics, particularly the architecture and urban design of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is the national architecture museum of Austria.

Wikipedia: Architekturzentrum Wien (EN), Website

452 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Grete-Rehor-Park

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Grete-Rehor-Park

Schmerlingplatz is located in Vienna's 1st district, the Innere Stadt. It was named in 1893 after the politician Anton von Schmerling.

Wikipedia: Schmerlingplatz (DE)

583 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: City Hall Square

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City Hall Square

The Rathausplatz is a square in Vienna, Austria. The Rathausplatz is in the Innere Stadt, near the new Rathaus, after which it is named. Because of its size, its design and the architecture of the surrounding buildings it is one of the most important squares in central Vienna.

Wikipedia: Rathausplatz, Vienna (EN)

519 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer Hubertl / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Grillparzer Monument stands in Vienna's Volksgarten and is a larger-than-life seated figure of Franz Grillparzer by the sculptor Carl Kundmann (1838–1919) made of Lasa marble. It is a listed building (list entry).

Wikipedia: Grillparzerdenkmal (Wien) (DE)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Deserter monument

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The Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice is located at the Ballhausplatz in the centre of Vienna, opposite the President's office and the Austrian Chancellory. The monument was created by German conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai. The inscription atop the three-step sculpture features the poem by Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay consisting of just two words: all alone.

Wikipedia: Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice (EN), Website

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Wasserwellen-Lebens-Brunnen

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The Water Wave Life Fountain, also known as the Lapis Lazuli Lazurite Wave Water Sculpture, Lapis Lazuli Fountain, Kreisky Fountain or Blue Sign, is a fountain in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt.

Wikipedia: Wasserwellen-Lebens-Brunnen (DE)

387 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Globenmuseum

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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.

Wikipedia: Globe Museum (EN), Website

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Kohlmarkt

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KohlmarktFred Romero from Paris, France / CC BY 2.0

The Kohlmarkt is one of the most famous streets in the center of Vienna. It stretches from Michaelerplatz to the Graben and is considered Vienna's luxury shopping street due to a high density of jewelers and branches of international fashion labels. Together with the Graben and the Kärntner Straße, the Kohlmarkt forms Vienna's so-called "Golden U" of inner-city shopping streets, which offer upscale stores and are pedestrian zones.

Wikipedia: Kohlmarkt, Vienna (EN), Website

290 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Tuchmacherbrunnen

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The Tuchmacherbrunnen or Tuchlaubenbrunnen is a fountain in the 1st district of Vienna.

Wikipedia: Tuchmacherbrunnen (Wien) (DE)

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Kornhäuselturm

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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 in Vienna according to the current Viennese building regulations.

Wikipedia: Kornhäuselturm (DE)

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Georgskirche

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Georgskirche

St. George's Church, also known as the Greek Church of St. George, is an Orthodox church in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, on the Hafnersteig in the former "Greek Quarter".

Wikipedia: Georgskirche (Wien) (DE)

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Zum gelben Adler

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Zum gelben Adler is a former inn on the corner of Hafnersteig and Griechengasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt. The building, which is now used as a residential building, is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Zum gelben Adler (DE)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Theater franzjosefskai21

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Theater franzjosefskai21

The theater franzjosefskai21 is a small stage at the eponymous Franz-Josefs-Kai 21 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt.

Wikipedia: Theater franzjosefskai21 (DE), Website

705 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 21: Dreifaltigkeitssäule

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The Holy Trinity Column is a Baroque memorial column in Vienna, which was erected in memory of a former chapel that stood not far away. The column stands in front of the headquarters of the Vienna Emergency Service at the corner of Radetzkystraße 1 and Obere Weißgerberstraße in the Weißgerberviertel of Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitssäule (Wien-Landstraße) (DE)

751 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 22: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts

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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.

Wikipedia: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (EN), Website

304 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Dominikanerbastei

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The Dominican Bastion was part of the Vienna city wall as a fortification. Today, a street created in its place in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, bears this name.

Wikipedia: Dominikanerbastei (DE)

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Dominikanerkirche

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The Dominican Church, also known as the Church of St. Maria Rotunda, is an early Baroque parish church and minor basilica in the historic center of Vienna, Austria. It is the third church built on the same site in the course of time.

Wikipedia: Dominican Church, Vienna (EN)

1015 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 25: Jewish Museum Vienna

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The Jüdisches Museum Wien, trading as Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien GmbH or the Jewish Museum Vienna, is a museum of Jewish history, life and religion in Austria. The museum is present on two locations, in the Palais Eskeles in the Dorotheergasse and in the Judenplatz, and has distinguished itself by a very active programme of exhibitions and outreach events highlighting the past and present of Jewish culture in Austria. The current director is Barbara Staudinger and the chief curator is Astrid Peterle.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum Vienna (EN), Website

399 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Schweizertor

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The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. Located in the centre of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn Palace was the summer residence. Since 1946, it is the official residence and workplace of the president of Austria.

Wikipedia: Hofburg (EN), Website

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Ephesos Museum

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The Ephesos Museum in Vienna displays antiquities from the city of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey. Begun in the late 19th century, the collection includes original works of sculpture and architecture, and belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Wikipedia: Ephesos Museum (EN), Website

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Prince Eugene of Savoy memorial

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The Prince Eugene Equestrian Monument is an equestrian statue of the general of the House of Austria, known as Prince Eugene, who was unveiled in 1865. It is located on Heldenplatz in the Austrian capital Vienna.

Wikipedia: Prinz-Eugen-Reiterdenkmal (DE), Url

462 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 29: Goethe

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The Goethe Monument is a monument in honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Vienna and is located on the corner of Opernring and Goethegasse in the 1st district of Innere Stadt. The monument, designed by Edmund von Hellmer, was unveiled on December 15, 1900. On the opposite side of the Ringstrasse, on Schillerplatz, is the Schiller Monument, which was erected in 1876.

Wikipedia: Goethedenkmal (Wien) (DE)

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Burggarten

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Burggarten

The Burggarten is a public park on Vienna's Ringstrasse.

Wikipedia: Burggarten (Wien) (DE)

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