YOUR VIENNA TOURS

Vienna’s magnificent boulevard in 3 walks
The construction of the Ringstrasse drastically changed the face of Vienna’s inner city. Today we find world-famous buildings and Viennese history streched out over just a few kilometres. Why does the Ringstrasse exist at all? Who lived there and who built the palaces of the rich and famous? Why is the Ringstrasse not an actual circle and what problems did the State Opera and the Burgtheater cause? There are simply too many questions to answer them all in one tour. Therefore, I would like to introduce you to the exciting story of the Ringstrasse in three walks.

Tour 1: Stubenring to Schubertring
Tour 2: Schwarzenbergplatz to Parliament
Tour 3: Rathauspark to Ringturm

Please select the desired tour when making your reservation request.

135 years, 330.000 graves, last resting place for Viennese and many celebrities

Walk with me about Europes second largest cemetery. Our tour takes us past historically interesting graves, graves of honour and into the impressive Art Nouveau church by Max Hegele.
Discover great history and small stories around Viennas Central Cemetery. A graveyard does not necessesarily have to be sad.

On the trail of Art Nouveau from Wienzeile to Karlsplatz

Art Nouveau architects – to a certain extent they were the punks at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The old no longer suited them, so they created something new and never before seen.
On our walk we pass Otto Wagner’s famous houses at Wienzeile, the Secession and also some less known testimonies from the time around 1900.

From the Hohe Brücke to the Stadtpark

Starting at the Art Nouveau bridge, our path leads across the Graben to the Trattnerhof and Fleischmarkt. Otto Wagner’s legendary building for the Postal Savings Bank and the Vienna River Portal in the Stadtpark are further highlights on our way through Vienna around the time of 1900.

Jewish traces in Vienna

Come with me on a walk through the history of the Viennese Jewish community. Exile, ghettos, the Shoah are just as much a part of the history of Viennese Jews as Ringstrasse palaces, Oscar winners and world-famous scientists.
Let’s explore Vienna in the footsteps of 800 years of Jewish life.

You can choose from two tours:

Tour Innere Stadt / 1st district
This is where Jewish life flourished. From the first community in the Middle Ages to its heyday at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Tour Leopoldstadt / 2nd district
Once the Jewish ghetto around 1700, this district was also the place where the Nazis herded together our Jewish fellow citizens before they would murder them in the camps.
Today, this district is the center of our Jewish community.

These tours can also be combined into one longer walk.
If you are interested, please contact me and we will create a customized tour.

A tour of old and not-so-old palais.

A walk to aristocratic residences, houses of the moneyed aristocracy, art and business. Where once counts stabled their horses, today events take place, where once people prayed, today paintings are auctioned.

Palais, palace, palazzo – see and hear what a Viennese palace can be – on a walk through the city centre.

More than 300 years of auction history
From the founding of the Dorotheum by Joseph I in 1707 to the current auctions – in the historical rooms you will learn about the history of the renowned auction house, how auctions work and what the Dorotheum has to offer to its clients in addition to sales.

In cooperation with Dorotheum.

Of “heroes” and other people
Old and new history lie very close together on and around Heldenplatz. The victors of the Habsburg battles, probably the most famous balcony in our country, the temporary quarters of the parliament, the Ballhausplatz – all just a few turns away from each other.
Short distances, but long history. A tour of the “Main Square of the Republic”.

From Aida to Zacherl – on the tracks of traditional Viennese companies in the 1st district.
Between all thecity centers international chains, designer boutiques and souvenir stores we look for and find traces of the “good old business-times”. Where people shop in the Steffl departement store today, there was once a shopping temple designed by Otto Wagner. And not far from there you could find the “most Parisian of all department stores in the world”.
A few traditional companies still exist. Others are now history. On this walk we will bring them back to life a little bit.

Big tragedies and the small drama
Vienna’s largest cemetery also reminds us of the great tragedies of Austrian history. Our tour takes us to memorial sites such as the National Memorial to the Victims for a Free Austria and the February Fighters Memorial. But we also visit places of remembrance on a smaller scale: cemeteries of different religious communities, anatomy graves, forest cemetery… A walk around the central cemetery away from the graves of honour.
Please note, the memorials tour takes about 3 hours.

100 years of Viennese council housing
What Viennese take for granted today was an internationally admired social experiment 100 years ago.
We will visit and talk about seven municipal buildings, which were built between 1919 and 1934 on the Margareten Gürtel and provided decent housing for Viennese workers.

A walk in the green
From the fire station Am Steinhof we walk across the Steinhofgründe to the Otto Wagner Church. From this Art Nouveau icon, our path leads through a stretch of forest, the Paulinensteig with its great view of the city via the Liebhartstal to the Ottakring cemetery. Hear about the Ruinenwiese, Knöpferlmacher and the Ottakringer Cottage. And find out why the Wilhelminenberg is not called Wilhelminenberg at all.
A city tour away from the big city.

Community buildings, football stars and the last executioner of Vienna
The 11th district of Vienna is probably not the first choice for visitors to Vienna. But this former suburb offers a long and interesting history. As one of the centres of Red Vienna fought over in the interwar period, the district is now a popular residential area.
If you would like to see Vienna off the beaten tourist track, I look forward to showing you the Simmering where I grew up.

Housing, leisure, industry – a district tour around Sandleiten

The Sandleitenhof in Vienna’s 16th district is not only the largest municipal building built in Red Vienna – the legendary period after the First World War, when a Social Democratic city administration made Vienna a city of excellence. In Austrias First Republic, the baths and parks were built here – then and now a recreational area for the people of the district. But there was always hard work here too. Even today, the old factory buildings bear witness to the working-class district of Ottakring.
Accompany me on this tour of housing, leisure and industry in and around Sandleiten.