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The Minoritenkirche has been depicted by many artists, including – sadly – Adolf Hitler. Prior to World World One, he created a pen-and-ink drawing of the church.
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The Minoritenkirche has been depicted by many artists, including – sadly – Adolf Hitler. Prior to World World One, he created a pen-and-ink drawing of the church.
For a brief period before World War I, Café Central played host to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud, Josip Broz Tito, and a mediocre artist named Adolf Hitler. It was called the Schachhochschule (“Chess School”), a place where men could smoke, drink coffee, play chess, and foment revolutions. Although
There’s an oft-told story that places Count Berchtold, foreign minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the early 20th century, and Victor Adler, leader of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party, in a heated discussion.* War was thundering on the horizon, and Adler was arguing that it might lead to a Russian
Saint Leopold III (a.k.a. Leopold the Good) is the patron saint of Austria and Vienna. Leopold had a yen for founding monasteries and a love of promoting cities, including Vienna and Krems. You’ll find his exposed skull, capped with an archducal crown, in Klosterneuburg Abbey. Leopold III died on November
“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” Sigmund Freud. The father of psychoanalysis lived for 47 years at Berggasse 19, in the thick of the Inner City. Admirers of his work still ply their trade in Vienna.
Plague was devastating in cities with crowded conditions and poor sanitation. In A.D. 1679, the Great Plague of Vienna wiped out approximately 76,000 people. Some victims were thrown in the ditch that ran through the Graben. Others were carted to huge pits outside the city to await burning. These pits
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