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The stations of the former city railway were constructed by Otto Wagner in the 1890s (see p117).

The Baroque palace in Augarten park is now the Vienna Boys’ Choir school.

Palaces built in richly decorated Baroque style can be found throughout Vienna.

Decorated with arabesques and frescoes, the house was built in the 19th century during the Biedermeier age.

The massive Karl-Marx-Hof building was constructed in 1930.

The grand palace in Neo-Baroque style, built between 1898 and 1901 by Emil Ritter von Förster, is home to one of Europe’s largest auction houses and pawnshops. Four major auctions are held annually in the numerous showrooms and salons (see p93).

Another great composer commemorated in Stadtpark is Franz Schubert, seated on a marble base. The monument was commissioned by the men’s choir Wiener Männergesangs-verein, which specialized in Schubert’s songs, and was created by Carl Kundmann in 1872.

Located on the charming Franziskanerplatz (see p90), the church and the adjacent monastery of the Franciscan Order were constructed between 1603 and 1611 on the site of an older church. Dedicated to St Hieronymus, it is Vienna’s only religious building with a Renaissance façade, but it also bears numerous Gothic as well as Baroque features. These include six side altars in ornate recesses and a fine Baroque High Altar of 1707 by Andrea Pozzo.

The former gas storage towers from 1899 were converted into apartments in 2001.

Next to the Burggarten is a monument to one of the greatest writers in the German language, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The statue, seated on a massive base and cast in bronze, was created by Edmund Hellmer in 1900. Opposite the monument is a memorial to another distinguished writer of German literature and Goethe’s contemporary, Friedrich Schiller (see p110).