Vienna Day 1

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September 30th 2011

Published: March 13th 2024

We left Budapest at 8:00 a.m. for Vienna. The coach followed the M1 motorway through Hungary and then picked up the A4 in Austria. The drive took us through the Little Hungarian Plain, an area of rolling countryside south of the Danube in Western Hungary. After a rest stop midway, we reached Vienna at about 11:20 a.m. There was a break or lunch on our own before meeting for a walking tour of centr... Read Full Entry

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"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." I've traveled for a long time and have many memories of places and people. I enjoy travel, especially to new places I haven't seen before. Every journey, whether brief or extended, provides the opportunity for a new experience or a different way to see things. I like travel photography, too, and always have my camera with me. I look to the "4Hs of Tourism" as a guide when traveling: understanding the Habitat; Heritage; History and Handicrafts. Member of the TravBuddy travel blogging community from 2007 until its demise in 2018. [world... full info

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Nave

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Nave and view into the Choir. The Nave was expanded and vaulted in 1446-1454. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "The Interior (entered by the Prim-Tor or the Adler-Tor) is 355 ft. long, and 115 ft. broad, and 74 (in the nave, 92) ft. high. The nave has no upper lights so that a solemn twilight always prevails. The rich groined vaulting is borne by 18 massive pillars, adorned with over 100 statues. Numerous baroque altars of the 17th cent. enhance the picturesque effect."--Baedeker 1909 P1260105

Nave and High Altar

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Nave and view into the Choir and High Altar. The Nave was expanded and vaulted in 1446-1454. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "The Interior (entered by the Prim-Tor or the Adler-Tor) is 355 ft. long, and 115 ft. broad, and 74 (in the nave, 92) ft. high. The nave has no upper lights so that a solemn twilight always prevails. The rich groined vaulting is borne by 18 massive pillars, adorned with over 100 statues. Numerous baroque altars of the 17th cent. enhance the picturesque effect."--Baedeker 1909 P1260106

Stephansdom Pulpit

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. The elaborately carved stone pulpit depicts St. Gregory the Great, St. Jerome, and St. Augustine of Hippo. Attributed to Anton Pilgram, 1514-1515. "The Nave contains the late-Gothic Pulpit, in sandstone, ascribed to the architect Ant. Pilgram (ca. 1512) and adorned with the four Fathers of the Church, while under the stairs is the figure of the master, looking through a window."--Baedeker 1909 P1260107

Nave

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Rear of the nave and vaulted ceiling. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. P1260108p1

Nave Vaulting

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Vaulting in the rear nave. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. .P1260109

Stephansdom Pulpit

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. The elaborately carved stone pulpit depicts St. Gregory the Great, St. Jerome and St. Augustine of Hippo. Detail. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "The Nave contains the late-Gothic Pulpit, in sandstone, ascribed to the architect Ant. Pilgram (ca. 1512) and adorned with the four Fathers of the Church, while under the stairs is the figure of the master, looking through a window.".--Baedeker 1909 P1260110

Stephansdom High Altar

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. High Altar. The High Altar, built in 1641-1647, represents the stoning of St. Stephen. It is framed by figures of patron saints from the surrounding areas – Saints Leopold, Florian, Sebastian, and Rochus. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "In the Hauptchor (centre-choir) is the high-altar of black marble by Hans Bock, with an altar-piece of the Stoning of St. Stephen, by Tobias Bock..."--Baedeker 1909 P1260112

Wiener Neustädter Altar

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. The Wiener Neustädter Altar is composed of two triptychs. The altar was commissioned in 1447 for the Cistercian Viktring Abbey and came to St. Stephen's in 1885. The opened panels show gilded wooden figures depicting events in the life of the Virgin Mary. P1260114p1

Archbishop's Chair

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Bischofsstuhl - Archbishops. chair. P1260115p1

Archbishop's Chair

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Bischofsstuhl - Archbishops. chair. P1260116p1

Stephansdom Organ

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Organ loft with the Rieger organ of 1991. P1260119

Rear Nave

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. View towards the rear of the nave and the main entrance named the Giant's Door, or Riesentor. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. P1260121p1

Tomb of Frederick III

Tomb of Frederick III (1415-1493), Holy Roman Emperor, in St. Stephen's Cathedral. The red and white marble tomb was completed in 1513. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "The Thekla Choir or Apostelchor contains the Sarcophagus of Emp. Frederick III. (d. 1493), by Lerch, completed in 1513, a most elaborate work in red and white marble, surrounded by 32 coats-of-arms; in 8 sections below are scenes from the history of Wiener-Neustadt, etc.; at the feet of the figure various animals".--Baedeker 1911 P1260122p1

Stephansdom Lamp

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Pillar and lamp in the nave. P1260123

Funerary Monument

Funerary Monument in the wall of Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. P1260126p1

Mozart Plaque in Stephansdom

Plaque commemorating the marriage of Mozart and Constanze Weber at St. Stephen's in 1782. Two of their children were baptized in the cathedral. P1260127

Baptismal Font

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. Baptismal font in St. Katherine's Chapel. The font, completed in 1481, shows the twelve Apostles. Stephansdom Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "Adjacent is the Chapel of St. Catharine (1395), with good groined vaulting, a wooden crucifix of the 14th cent., and a fine late-Gothic font (1481) ."--Baedeker 1911 P1260128

Katharinenkapelle

St. Catherine's Chapel at the base of the South Tower. Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral.. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "Opposite is the Chapel of St. Catharine (1396), with beautiful groined vaulting, which contains a wooden Crucifix of the 14th cent, and a fine font of 1481."--Baedeker 1911 P1260130p1

West Tower

Stephansdom - St. Stephen's Cathedral. The two 215-foot (65 m) west towers date from 1245 and were incorporated into the present church in 1263. They are known as the Heidentürme. Historic Centre of Vienna UNESCO World Heritage site. "After another fire in 1258 the transepts and a polygonal choir were added, while the nave and facade were heightened. The two towers of the last, called the Heidentürme (210 ft. high), still retain late Romanesque features".--Baedeker P1260132p1

Vienna Tram

Vienna tran on Franz-Josefs-Kai. P1260134p1

Donaukanal

Donaukanal - Danube Canal from the Franzensbrücke. Donaukanal - Danube Canal. A former arm of the river Danube, now regulated as a water channel (since 1598), within the city of Vienna, Austria. It is 10.7 miles (17.3 km) long. "...the Danube, which is here divided into several arms. ... The S.W. arm, converted into the Donau-Kanal in 1869-73, flows through part of the city, where it receives the waters of the Wien, now almost wholly bridged and built over, and is protected by locks against floods and floating ice."--Baedeker 1911 P1260041

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