Heiligenstadt 
Heiligenstadt, incorporated in Döbling in 1892, is the oldest and prettiest of the Viennese villages.
Its narrow winding streets have helped to keep it free from too much bustle. In the area around Probusgasse and Armbrustergasse it is still possible to see how the place used to look, with its Empire and early 19th C. houses.
St Jacob's Church on the Pfarrplatz was built in Romanesque times on Roman foundations; although frequently destroyed, altered and rebuilt, it is still worth seeing.
Beethoven stayed in Heiligenstadt on several occasions.
Its narrow winding streets have helped to keep it free from too much bustle. In the area around Probusgasse and Armbrustergasse it is still possible to see how the place used to look, with its Empire and early 19th C. houses.
St Jacob's Church on the Pfarrplatz was built in Romanesque times on Roman foundations; although frequently destroyed, altered and rebuilt, it is still worth seeing.
Beethoven stayed in Heiligenstadt on several occasions.
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Beethoven's House
Beethoven stayed in Heiligenstadt on several occasions including the autumn of 1802 while working on his Second Symphony. He wrote his "Heiligenstadt Testament", a letter to his brothers Carl and Johann which he never sent, at 6 Probusgasse. The house is under the administration of the Vienna City Historical Museum. In 1817 he was once more living in Heiligenstadt, this time at 2 Pfarrplatz, where he worked on his Pastoral Symphony.
