Itās true: eating out in Vienna is on the higher end of the scale, and many places offer weekday lunch specials or deals to āsoftenā the hit to the wallet. But flip-side, there are many bistros, taverns, and restaurants which provide examples of Viennese cuisine and hospitality. Iām highlighting two Iāve visited over the last two days:
ā¢ Rudiās Beisl, as recommended by the Herknerin herself; my visit on 18 June.
ā¢ Kaffee Alt Wien, as recommended by Falstaff; my visit on 19 June.
Rudiās Beisl
Located in the 5th district (Margareten) at Wiedner Hauptstrasse 88. I took bus 13A to stop Johann-Strauss-Gasse, but thereās also trams 1, 62, or Badener Bahn to stop Laurenzgasse.
Blue and white interior, for a ālightā and breezyā atmosphere.
Towards my spot in the corner.
Outside on the street thereās a board listing this weekās specials, which complements the information on their website. Itās Tuesday (Dienstag), and I had their grilled pork with mushrooms over rice (Champignonschnitzel mit Reis).
Warm day? A half-litre shandy to quaff.
Their grilled pork with mushrooms over rice (Champignonschnitzel mit Reis) was delicious. I couldāve had another plate, but I (barely) have any limits or measure of self-control. No coffee or dessert, I had to get going.
Kaffee Alt Wien
Located in the 1st district (Innenstadt) at BƤckerstrasse 9. Nearest stations: U1/U4 Schwedenplatz; or U1/U3 Stephansplatz.
āCome on in, we have food & drink.ā The chalk board at left lists this weekās lunch specials, found also on their website. The board at right lists other savoury and sweet dishes on offer.
Front, left; towards the bar.
More room and tables at back.
Front, right; towards my spot in the corner. I could simply grab a newspaper (which I did), and spent another 30 minutes reading post-meal. No English-language papers that I could see, however.
This weekās lunch specials on their website: at least one meat-option and at least one vegetarian-option every day. For Wednesday (Mittwoch), I chose āFaschierte Laibchenā with no soup or salad to leave āenough spaceā.
Their in-house ālemonadesā, including this rhubarb-raspberry-vanilla with carbonated mineral water.
āFaschierte Laibchen mit ErdƤpfelpĆ¼reeā: fried mounds of ground-meat with gravy and creamy mashed potatoes. And yes, this is very Austrian, and I couldāve had another plate.
But theyāre also known for their āApfelstrudel mit Schlagobersā. The phyllo pastry simply holds things together, but the real star is the apple chunks: fresh, tart, and a hint of cinnamon. The whipped cream adds creamy sweet lightness to the entire dessert. Y. U. M.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 18 and 19 Jun 2024. I received no support from any external organization. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
Sunny and solidly in the low-30s C (mid- to upper-80s F) today, and thereās more heat on the way for Vienna tomorrow. Meanwhile, Iām in the cityās 13th district, also known as Hietzing. Iām 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 Wagnerās architectural creations for the city railway: that beautiful station-font!
Towards the other end of Schƶnbrunn station.
Schƶnbrunn station: āTrack 1, to trains in the direction of Heiligenstadt.ā
Schƶnbrunn station: āTrack 2, to trains in the direction of HĆ¼tteldorf.ā
Imperial Court Pavilion at Hietzing: designed by Otto Wagner and solely for imperial use. The Emperor Franz Josef I, already wary of things ānewā, only used the station twice. The pavilion interior is open to the public on weekends; more 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.
Gloriettegasse 20.
Present-day secondary school (GRG13) on Wenzgasse 7; this was the location Dr. Berta Karlik (Univ. Vienna) attended secondary school between 1919 and 1923.
Apartment building at Larochegasse 37.
Well-known in Vienna and Austria, stage- and screen-actor Hans Moser used to live in this villa at HĆ¼gelgasse 2, which today is the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan š¦šæ
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 āhelloā to ā¦
ā¦ artist Gustav Klimt ā¦
ā¦ and Otto Wagner.
Otto Wagner has his architectural fingerprints all over Vienna. Itās worth some time to look for some or all of these, if youāre wondering about his massive impact on the cityās 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.
A separate city about 50 km south from Vienna proper, Wiener Neustadt is easily reached inside an hourās ride with a regional-express train. For the most part, I was here to photograph one location to complete a project begun in 2022. But, as always, there are interesting things to see in a new place.
Austria National Rail (ĆBB) station, at Wiener Neustadt.
Friedrichsgasse 3.
Cathedral, began as parish church in 1279.
Lichtzeichen Wien no. 26, at Baumkirchnerring 4: location of 1902 synagogue heavily damaged in the 1938 November Pogrom; building remnant used as warehouse until complete demolition in 1952. This image completes my photography of all 26 Lichtzeichen memorial locations, a project I started in 2022.
From underneath, looking up into the sky.
Hauptplatz (main plaza), with Dom (Cathedral) & MariensƤule (Mary column) at centre background and right foreground, respectively.
Rathaus (City Hall) with flags of Austria, Lower Austria, Wiener Neustadt, and the European Union (left to right, respectively).
Once Imperial Residence from 13th to 15th century, Empress Maria Theresa converted the āBurgā into a military academy in 1752. St. Georgeās Church appears at top-centre.
Inside St. Georgeās lies the tomb of Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). I first saw his grand cenotaph at Innsbruckās Hofkirche in 2018, not realizing then it wasnāt his grave.
Facing west, Bahngasse at Neunkirchner Strasse.
Time to head back and north, to Wien.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 17 Jun 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
Established in 1365 as one of the oldest universities in Europe, the University of Vienna has been home to her share of remarkable people in teaching and research. A first love is physics; so I go willingly into that space, to look for a number of physicists at Uni.Wien.
Main building of the university (HauptgebƤude), built by Heinrich Ferstel on the Ringstrasse; inaugurated 1884.
Erwin Schrƶdinger, atomic & nuclear physics; awarded 1933 Nobel Prize in physics.
Viktor Franz Hess, for his work on atmospheric cosmic rays, awarded 1936 Nobel Prize in physics.
Arkadenhof (arcade courtyard), where prominent university staff and faculty are highlighted as plaques and busts.
Left: Christian Doppler, physics professor 1860-1863. Right: Erwin Schrƶdinger, and his famous equation for quantum mechanics.
Johannes and Karl Littrow: Littrow, as in Littrow configuration in optics.
Franz Exner, physics professor (1891-1920) and whose PhD students included: Stefan Meyer, Lise Meitner, Felix Ehrenhaft.
Josef Stefan, of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law; physics professor from 1863 to 1893.
Ludwig Boltzmann, of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law; physics and maths professor.
Lise Meitner, atomic & nuclear physics, who should have had a share in the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Berta Karlik, atomic & nuclear physics; in 1956 Karlik the first woman to receive full professor from the University of Vienna.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 16 Jun 2024. I received neither sponsor nor support from any organization. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
If something has carried on for over one hundred years, surely thatās long enough to count as ātradition.ā I can live with that here in Vienna.
Saturday saw the heat return to the capital city with a balmy high of +28C (82F), likely touching low-30s in the Danube valley plains. Hanging out in the 3rd district (Landstrasse) brought me to some munchies at Rochusmarkt and some beautiful old streetcars at a transport museum.
TrzeÅniewski
Since 1902, this Vienna-only chain offers simple delicious open-faced sandwiches. Their āBrƶtchenā consist of fresh rye bread cut to small rectangular slabs on which thick savory spreads are applied. (āTschress-nee-ev-skiā is my best attempt.)
Itās 125pm and cozy inside their space at Rochusmarkt.
Rich creamy savory spreads on solid rye; very tempting to buy individual spreads in 100gram-jars for the apartment.
Remise transport museum
In a former rail maintenance yard, the cityās public transport operator, Wiener Linien, has their own history museum describing how Vienna went from horse-drawn trams in the 1840s to the U- and S-Bahn trains within the metro region today. Thereās the visual bonus of many old pretty red trams, a.k.a. streetcars, a.k.a. āBimsā.
Lounge- or trailer-car, no.1504 (1871).
āRund um Wienā (Around Vienna), no.82 (1912).
With the introduction in 1962 of rapid transit or Schnellbahn, this 1965 logo with the white jagged rune-like āSā on a blue background became a standard sight around Vienna.
āSilberpfeilā (silver arrow), no.2022, 1976 with the introduction of the first U-Bahn line, the U1, in Vienna.
Tracks out from the sheds.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 15 Jun 2024. I received neither sponsor nor support from any organization. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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