The Vienna Karlskirche is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna's 4th district Wieden. The Rectorate Church hl. Karl Borromäus belongs to the city deanery 4/5 in the Vicariate Vienna City of the Archdiocese of Vienna. Built in the first half of the 18th century, the church is a listed building. It is located on the south side of Karlsplatz, which is close to the city center, and is one of the most important baroque churches north of the Alps and one of Vienna's landmarks.
Commissioned by Emperor Charles VI, it was designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach as the central link between Rome and Byzantium. So she leans on the appearance of the Hagia Sophia and imitates the Trajan's column.
Since the Karlsplatz was rebuilt as an ensemble in the late 1980s, the Karlskirche not only has a dome and two flanking relief columns, but also an architectural counterweight to the buildings of the Musikverein and the Technische Universität. (Wikipedia).
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The Donau City is a newly built in 1996 district in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt. It is located right next to the Reichsbrücke bridge and is the next district on the left bank of the Danube.
Danube City: Danube Tower, Ares Tower, STRABAG House, DC Tower 1, Andromeda Tower, Tech Gate Vienna, Vienna International Center and New Danube Tower
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Klosterneuburg is located on the right bank of the Danube, which flows here in a right turn initially to the east and later to the south, and immediately north of Vienna, from which it is separated by the Kahlenberg and the Leopoldsberg. It has been separated from the sister city of Korneuburg on the left bank by the Danube since the late Middle Ages. Part of the municipality is protected as the nature park Eichenhain. The highest elevation in the city is the Exelberg with 516 m above sea level. A., the lowest point Schüttau with 161 m. In the east, the river Danube is part of the municipality, as the municipality boundary runs on the left bank. Furthermore, due to the regulation of the Danube, there are left-sided small strips and one northernmost part of the Danube Island including the inlet structure within the municipal boundaries.
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View from the Leopoldsberg to the Vienna Danube region
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Schönlaterngasse
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Schönlaterngasse with the entrance to the Heiligenkreuzer Hof in the background
Schönlaterngasse ("beautiful lantern alley") is a small winding alleyway in central Vienna. In the Middle Ages it was known as Straße der Herren von Heiligenkreuz ("street of the gentlemen of Heiligenkreuz"), as it passes the Heiligenkreuzer Hof ("Holy Cross courtyard"). Later on, it carried several names that still referred to the Heiligenkreuzer Hof before being named after the "beautiful lantern" in 1780. The buildings along the alley date back to Baroque times.
Schönlaterngasse originally terminated in an alleyway that was removed to make way for the Jesuitenkirche, upon which it was lengthened to Postgasse, where it still ends today.
The so-called "beautiful lantern" is located at Schönlaterngasse 6. The original lantern is currently in Vienna’s City Museum, but a replica was installed in its original location in 1971.
Schönlaterngasse 7 inscribed with the basilisk myth
The house opposite the lantern, Schönlaterngasse 7, is home to a well-known Viennese myth. According to this myth, on 26 June 1212 in the morning, the servant of a baker discovered a basilisk at the bottom of the well in the courtyard. The baker’s apprentice noticed the creature and subsequently destroyed it by holding a mirror to it (looking into its eyes was known to be fatal). The basilisk exploded.[1] The facades of the house tell this tale, which was inscribed in its walls in 1932 using the original text from 1577.
An old blacksmith's smithy can be viewed at Schönlaterngasse 9, and serves as home to an art association.
The street is also home to several eating and drinking establishments today, which are open nights and evenings.
Schönlaterngasse has been on Austrian postage stamps four times. It can also be seen in Carol Reed's The Third Man.[
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