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24T50 Vienna Hütteldorf station

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I’m passing through the station, because I’m looking for the location where a well-known Viennese writer, Doderer, was born. After multiple stops here over multiple years, I know this station well; perhaps, the station knows me well, too.

“Diese Station wird videoüberwacht.” (This station is under video surveillance.)

*Hütteldorf is not only the terminus station for the green U4 line, but also a major transfer point to S-Bahn and regional trains.*

I made the photos above with an iPhone15 on 26 Jun 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T44 Vienna’s Cottage Quarter

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I spend a few afternoon hours walking the streets of this neighbourhood, admiring the villas and mansions, and marveling over how architect and neighbourhood co-founder Heinrich Ferstel had intended the target audience to be mid- to upper-class families in the late 19th-century. It might be worthwhile to examine the “economic differences” between then and now. Alternatively, we can imagine how the lure of these quiet English-style spaces would surely have been tempting, as a means of escaping the hustle and bustle of the “inner city.”

*Physicist Ludwig Boltzmann and his family lived here from 1902 to 1906.*

*… where Felix Salten wrote “Bambi” in 1923.*

*Sternwarte Straße 53, where Vienna’s Cottage Association was formed.*

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 20 Jun 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T42 Hitzig in Hietzing

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Sunny and solidly in the low-30s C (mid- to upper-80s F) today, and there’s more heat on the way for Vienna tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’m in the city’s 13th district, also known as Hietzing. I’m either walking the streets among villas, mansions, bungalows, and 20th-century apartments; or in narrow paths among graves in another more modest cemetery.

*One of Otto Wagner’s architectural creations for the city railway: that beautiful station-font!*

*Towards the other end of Schönbrunn station.*

*Schönbrunn station: “Track 1, to trains in the direction of Heiligenstadt.”*

*Schönbrunn station: “Track 2, to trains in the direction of Hütteldorf.”*

Imperial Court Pavilion at Hietzing: designed by Otto Wagner and solely for imperial use. The Emperor Franz Josef I, already wary of things “new”, only used the station twice. The pavilion interior is open to the public on weekends; more about the pavilion **here**.

*The regulation of the Vienna river was completed in conjunction and in parallel with the city railway. Otto Wagner had a lot on his plate. This view is from street-level outside Hietzing station.*

Present-day secondary school (GRG13) on Wenzgasse 7. This was the location Berta Karlik attended secondary school between 1919 and 1923, and later, joined the research staff at the University of Vienna.

*Apartment building at Larochegasse 37.*

*Well-known in Vienna and Austria, stage- and screen-actor Hans Moser used to live in this villa at Hügelgasse 2, which today is the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan* 🇦🇿

*Located just west of Hietzing station is Hans Moser Park. The building at right is the district hall for districts 13 (Hietzing) and 14 (Penzing). Image at 0.5x.*

*At the west side of Hans Moser Park is this memorial statue to Hans Moser (1880-1964).*

*I returned to Hietzing cemetery to look for the Knips family grave created by Josef Hoffmann. I quickly breezed through the cemetery to say ‘hello’ to …*

Otto Wagner has his architectural fingerprints all over Vienna. It’s worth some time to look for some or all of **these**, if you’re wondering about his massive impact on the city’s evolution in the early 20th-century.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 18 Jun 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T35 Vienna, 3rd consecutive summer-visit

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Travel day 35 requires another long day of a rail trip from Bamberg to Vienna, via Nürnberg, that goes halfway across Germany and a good length across Austria. Not only will this be a 3rd consecutive visit to Vienna in 3 years, but also a 3rd consecutive 1-month stay: 2022 in the city’s 6th district (Mariahilf), last year in the 2nd district (Leopoldstadt), and this year I return to the 6th. In reacquainting myself with the ‘hood, the following are direct reminders of what I’d discovered 2 years ago, and that it’s great to be back in “the 6.” again.

*Neubaugasse; Vienna Pride 2024 took place 25 May to 9 June.*

*Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) at T-intersection of Amerlingstraße & Gumpendorfer Straße: male-male, red.*

*Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) at T-intersection of Amerlingstraße & Gumpendorfer Straße: male-male, green.*

*Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) at T-intersection of Amerlingstraße & Gumpendorfer Straße: female-female, red.*

*Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) at T-intersection of Amerlingstraße & Gumpendorfer Straße: female-female, green.*

*Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) at T-intersection of Amerlingstraße & Gumpendorfer Straße: male-female, red.*

*Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) at T-intersection of Amerlingstraße & Gumpendorfer Straße: male-female, green.*

The diversity of Vienna’s Ampelpärchen (traffic-light couples) began with the city as hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015. Finding overwhelming popularity, the lights stayed on as permanent fixtures throughout the city after the festival.

I made all images above in Vienna’s 6th district with an iPhone15 on 11 Jun 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T24 Stralsund in Germany’s northeast corner

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Stralsund has existed as a city with its first charter assigned in 1234 CE. The name of the settlement is taken from the narrow water channel, Strelasund, a sound separating the mainland (on which the town resides) and the neighbouring island of Rügen.

I arrive at the hotel in late-afternoon, and get myself out the door for a couple of hours as “visual appetizer” for tomorrow’s full day (under forecast sun). Prominent are the “big 3 churches” in the city’s Old Town whose area is designated UNESCO world heritage site.