My Vienna: urban frame
Above/featured: Belvedere Garden, north from Marble Hall in Upper Belvedere to Lower Belvedere and beyond to St. Stephen’s Cathedral at left-centre – 19 May.
It’s easy to reduce a city to stereotypes, distilling landmarks to short paragraph summaries designed for easy consumption.
Some might say: you’re making things too complicated; they’ve got to be simpler. That misguided sentiment needlessly and carelessly minimizes the diversity and complexity of a city, her people, and the infrastructure through which citizens reside, navigate, and thrive. Although I chased after traces of Otto Wagner throughout Vienna, I’m also interested in illuminating the city as reflections from past and present and as glimpses of resident and visitor.
Vienna is an exceptional city
- on the blue Danube,
- whose historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
- that’s home to one of the four world headquarters of the United Nations,
- and home to over 100 years of the arts and culture movement known as “Vienna Modernism”.
Einige meiner Bilder von Wien
Wieden (4th District): Wiedner Hauptstrasse at Johann-Strauss-Gasse – 16 May.
Apartment blocks surround the geographic spot where Johann Strauss II lived from 1878 until his death in 1899: Wieden – 16 May.
Naschmarkt – 16 May.
Gal Gadot, for Huawei (華為): next to Kettenbrückengasse station – 16 May.
“Secession” – 16 May.
Heading home with the dry-cleaning: Mariahilf (6th District) – 16 May.
Votivkirche, north from Rathausplatz and Reichsratsstrasse – 16 May.
Arkadenhof der Universität Wien / Arcade Court, University of Vienna – 16 May.
Grünangerstrasse 8: above the door frame is a bakery crest for the Kipferlhaus, marking the apparent and disputed location of the first Kipferl (“crescent”) made in Vienna before appearing years later in France as the “croissant.” As for the street name “Grünanger”, the historical meaning would have been “green meadow” – 18 May.
Altstadt (Old Town): Ballgasse at dusk – 18 May.
Nussdorf: Greinergasse, west from Nussdorfer Platz (Döbling, 19th District) – 19 May.
Schemerl Bridge, Nussdorf Weir: Brigittenau (20th District) – 19 May.
Green space along the blue Danube, in Brigittenau – 19 May.
MuseumQuartier (Museum Quarter)- 19 May.
A clash of the times: miniature golf in front of the Museumsquartier, with NHM Wien (left) and KHM Wien (centre) – 19 May.
Hauptbahnhof (central station), tracks 3 and 4 – 20 May.
Hauptbahnhof or the new central station, began operations in 2012 – 20 May.
Karlsplatz: an evening of tango – 20 May.
Michaelerplatz – 20 May.
In the queue, after the queue: outside Café Central – 20 May.
Kohlmarkt 9, plus 1 – 20 May.
I made all photos above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20 May 2018. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-c1Z.
4 Responses to “My Vienna: urban frame”
Love that shot of Belvedere Garden. Can’t wait to visit this city soon 🙂
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Hi, Lorelle. I like that shot, too, but it’s not my favourite or the most memorable! 😅 I hope you arrive in Vienna soon: there’s a lot to see and not enough time to see everything. Thanks for your comment!
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