Around the Opera

I have no information about the church in Pic 1.  The legal German from 1952 is most amusing, and prohibits making slides, skating and skiing or even walking on the untreated paths when there is black ice.  Pic 3 shows the roses in the park wrapped up against frost, with the opera in the background.  Pic 4 shows the opera to the right and the City Hall behind.  No information about the impressive building in Pic 5.

The Austrian Parlament

Over the road from the Hofburg and next to the City Hall (the sunlit spire in pic 2) the Parlament dates from the 1880s. 

The 'Burbs

Walking back to the centre from Schoenbrunn past the tram station, we passed through a down-at-heel suburb looking for somewhere to have a late lunch.  An almost empty Vietnamese restaurant obliged by making us wait about half an hour for our meals, but it was freshly-cooked and beautifully served.  We had a long chat with the owner about photography.  

Tram Station

New and old trams on the Mariahilfestrasse.

Schoenbrunn Palace

Art Nouveau Canal

This flood defence runs through the Stadtpark to the Donaucanal.  It is decorated along its length as a promenade for the gentry in an Art Nouveau style, as are the stations on the Schoenbrunn Line.  In the top photo a 'bride' was being photographed.

Beethoven Memorial

Beethoven's memorial was bigger than anyone else's; quite right, too, as he would have said.  It is in Beethovenplatz, alongside the grammar school where Schubert was a pupil for seven years.  Another sign on the same wall says: 'We remember those students and teachers who in 1938 [the date of the Anschluss with Nazi Germany] had to leave this school because they were Jews.'