Vienna - Neuer Markt

From 1220 onwards the "New Viennese Market place" served as a corn and vegetable market, as the site for jousting, as an arena for mountebanks such as Hans Wurst, and as a place where the Court and nobility could come to skate. Today it is a large parking lot and a feeder for the Kärnterstrasse pedestrian zone. The oldest remaining houses date from the 18th C. No. 14 is a Baroque bourgeois house, No. 25 was formerly the residence of the piano virtuoso Mayseder, and No. 27 is known as the "Herrnhuter House". From 1795 to 1796 Joseph Haydn lived where No. 2 now stands, and it was there that he wrote the Austrian national anthem. The Kapuzinerkirche dominates the west side of the square.