Stefanie Jäger

An Architectural Walk Through Historic Vienna 🏛️✨
From a medieval merchants’ depot to the imperial court confectioner …
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Hello, dear travel friends! 🍾🤩❤️🙋🏻‍♀️
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Today I’m taking you on a little walk through Vienna’s old town, from a fairytale house with two towers to the sweetest address in the city.
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We start at Lugeck (pics 1 & 2). This house looks medieval, but it was built in 1897. The real old house stood here for almost 500 years: the Regensburger Hof, where merchants from Regensburg stored their goods. When it was torn down in 1896, the Viennese protested. So the new house got its towers back, just like the old one. The statue in front is Gutenberg, the inventor of printing.
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Next stop: Neuer Markt (pics 3 to 5), one of Vienna’s oldest squares, first mentioned in 1234. In the middle stands the Donner Fountain from 1739. Legend says its naked figures were too much for Empress Maria Theresa and she had them removed. Don’t worry, they came back! Today you see copies, the originals are in the Wien Museum.
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My favourite story: the sculptor is said to have given one of the river nymphs the face of his great love, the young wife of an old gingerbread baker. Her house stood exactly where the yellow building in pic 3 is today 💛
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And then something sweet: Demel on Kohlmarkt (pics 6 to 9), a confectioner since 1786 and supplier to the imperial court. The gorgeous interior dates from 1888. The waitresses, called “Demelinerinnen”, still speak to you in a very old fashioned, polite way: “Haben schon gewählt?” Empress Sisi loved Demel’s candied violets. No wonder the Sisi turning in the window (video) wears a dress full of violet blossoms 💜
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👇 Architecture or cake: what’s your favourite?
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