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1865, 2015. 150 Jahre
Wiener Ringstraße.
Anlässlich des 150.
Geburtstages der Wiener
Ringstraße hat Wien
Tourismus dreizehn
international bekannte
Autoren gebeten, sich
Gedanken über den Prachtboulevard
zu machen.
Zu den Autoren zählen
Sybille Berg, Eva Menasse,
Marlene Streeruwitz und
Wladimir Sorokin.
On the occasion of the
150th birthday of
Ringstraße Vienna, Wien
Tourismus asked thirteen
internationally renowned
authors to think about this
magnificent boulevard. The
authors include Sybille
Berg, Eva Menasse,
Marlene Streeruwitz and
Vladimir Sorokin.
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Auch die neue Wiener
Universität fand Platz an der
Ringstraße.
The new Vienna University was
also built on Ringstraße.
from Sicardsburg, who designed the Vienna State
Opera together with Viennese Eduard van der Nüll,
did not come from the Austrian part of the monarchy,
but the Hungarian part. Heinrich Ferstel, who
designed the University of Vienna, Votivkirche church,
the Museum for Applied Arts and the Palais
Wertheim, came from Vienna.
The dominant building style is historicism, with
buildings from the Renaissance, Baroque and Gothic
periods as role models. It is this stylistic mixture
which makes Ringstraße so attractive. If you walk
along Ringstraße today, you will notice the many luxury
hotels located on this boulevard. However, they
were not originally planned. Only in 1873, when Vienna
hosted a world exhibition, and there was a demand
for sophisticated accommodation, palaces and
residences were turned into hotels. The oldest hotel
on the Ring is the Grand Hotel between the State
Opera and Schwarzenbergplatz; it was opened in
1870, emerged from a residential house and impressed
at the time with its advanced technical
equipment – a mechanical lift and telephone in every
room were a sensation. Above all the nobility relished
this modern house – Crown Prince Rudolf regularly
met his lover Mary Vetsera here. The Palais
Württemberg, which is opposite the Grand Hotel,
was also converted into a hotel. Today, the Hotel Imperial
is still seen as one of the top addresses in the
city. The history of the Palais Hansen on Schottenring
is interesting. This huge palace should also have
been used as a hotel during the world exhibition –
but it took until 2013 when it actually became a luxury
hotel. Today, the Palais Hansen Hotel Kempinski
is one of the best Grand Hotels in Vienna.
Right from the start, Ringstraße was the strolling
promenade of the Viennese middle classes. In particular,
the corner of Kärntner Ring and Kärntner
Straße quickly developed into a hotspot. Because the
leather goods shop Sirk was located here, this corner
was soon called „Sirk corner“. If you arranged to
meet on Ringstraße, you met here. With the strollers
came the coffee houses. 150 years ago, there were 25
big coffee houses on Ringstraße – only a few of them
still survive today. Artists and entrepreneurs, the
middle classes and simple people met here. They
were egalitarian institutions. The most famous coffee
house, even today, is Café Landtmann, which was
strategically located in the hotspot of politics (City
Hall Vienna, the Parliament, various party headquarters),
art (Vienna Burgtheater) and science
(University of Vienna). It is one of the most popular
meeting points in the city. To this day, political press
conferences and artist interviews are held here. Café
Landtmann is located in the Palais Lieben-Auspitz.
Above the coffee house, Berta Zuckerkandl once
held her literary salon, where Arthur Schnitzler,
Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler and many other artists,
writers, musicians and other greats of the Vienna
cultural scene met.
However, Ringstraße was not just a strolling promenade.
It was also the location for marches, demonstrations
and parades. Austrian and European
history was repeatedly written on Ringstraße. The
first big parade took place in 1879. More than 14,000
people took part in the festive procession for the
25th wedding anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph
and his Sisi. Later, the First Republic was declared on
the Ring (on 12 November 1918), and in 1934, there
was such violent fighting in front of the Palace of Justice,
that it ended in a civil war. On 15 March 1938,
Adolf Hitler drove along the Ring in triumph to announce
Austria’s inclusion in the German Reich at
Heldenplatz. Even today, the “proletariat” still marches
on Ringstraße on 1 May. Fan miles are set up, as
with the European Football Championship in 2008,
the participants of the Vienna City Marathon ran towards
the finishing line, the Vienna Festival is opened
here and the guests enter the Life Ball location,
the annual charity event.
In 2001, Ringstraße was named as a world cultural
heritage site by UNESCO. Even today, it is still a
place for strollers, a place for culture, politics and entertainment.
PHOTO: RALPH MANFREDA
Ausstellungen zum 150. Geburtstag der Wiener Ringstraße
Exhibitions on the 150th birthday of Ringstraße Vienna
Jüdisches Museum Wien
Der Ring – ein jüdischer Boulevard.
Die Ringstraße ist untrennbar mit dem Schicksal der jüdischen Unternehmer und Bankiers verbunden,
die als Investoren eine wichtige Rolle spielten und die am Boulevard ihre großartigen Palais
errichteten. Die Ausstellung im Jüdischen Museum Wien untersucht den Aufstieg dieser jüdischen
Elite vor dem Hintergrund eines aufkeimenden Antisemitismus. 25. März bis 4. Oktober.
Vienna The Ring - A Jewish boulevard. Ringstraße is inseparably linked with the Jewish entrepreneurs
and bankers, who played an important role as investors and built their huge palaces on the
boulevard. The exhibition in the Jewish Museum Vienna investigates the rise of this Jewish elite in
light of a burgeoning anti-Semitism. From 25 March to 4 October.
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Wien Museum
Der Ring. Pionierjahre einer Prachtstraße 1857 bis 1865.
Diese Ausstellung im Wien Museum konzentriert sich auf die Jahre zwischen 1857, als der Entschluss
zum Bau der Ringstraße gefasst wurde, und 1865, dem Jahr der Eröffnung. Gezeigt werden Pläne,
Modelle, Entwürfe und Fotografien, die die Planungsgeschichte des Boulevards erzählen.
11. Juni bis 4. Oktober.
The Ring. The pioneer years of a beautiful street 1857 to 1865. This exhibition in the Vienna
Museum concentrates on the years between 1857, when the decision was made to build Ringstraße,
and 1865, the year of the opening. Plans, models, drafts and photographs will be shown which tell the
story of the boulevard. From 11 June to 4 October.
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Unteres Belvedere
Klimt und die Ringstraße.
Gustav Klimt war der bedeutendste Künstler der Gründerzeit. Ihm und den anderen bedeutenden
Malern der Ringstraße – wie etwa Hans Makart – ist diese Ausstellung gewidmet.
3. Juli bis 11. Oktober.
Klimt and Ringstraße. Gustav Klimt was the most important artist of the founding period. This
exhibition is dedicated to him and other meaningful painters of Ringstraße such as Hans Makart. 3
July to 11 October.
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Architekturzentrum Wien
Wien, die Perle des Reiches. Planen für Hitler.
Auch der Führer hatte Pläne mit der Ringstraße. Das Architekturzentrum Wien zeigt die teilweise
unbekannten Pläne Adolf Hitlers und der Nationalsozialisten für Wien und die Ringstraße.
19. März bis 17. August.
Vienna, the pearl of the empire. Planning for Hitler. The Führer also had plans for Ringstraße. The
Architekturzentrum Vienna shows the sometimes unknown plans of Adolf Hitler and the national socialists
for Vienna and Ringstraße. 19 March to 17 August.
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Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Wien wird Weltstadt. Die Ringstraße und ihre Zeit.
Die Ausstellung zeigt, wie sich Wien von einer aristokratisch geprägten Stadt in eine moderne
Metropole verwandelte. 22. Mai bis 1. November.
Vienna becomes a world city. Ringstraße and its time. The exhibition shows how Vienna changed
from a city characterised by the aristocracy to a modern metropolis. From 22 May to 1 November.
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The Paintings Gallery of the Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna
94 Cercle Diplomatique 1/2015
1., Schillerplatz 3 | Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm
www.akademiegalerie.at
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