Northern Outer Districts

being an exhibit in itself and an exhibition hall for the varied work of this rebel architect. The house, designed by Hundertwasser and Pelikan in the style of the nearby Hundertwasserhaus, was used from 1892 by the Thonet brothers as a workshop for their world famous bow wood furniture. There are over 100 different Thonet chairs to try out in the ground level museum cafe. The privately owned KunstHausWien has on two floors about 300 paintings, graphics, tapestries and models of Hundertwasser's environmentally friendly architectural projects, both fulfillled and unfulfilled, and two further floors dedicated to changing exhibitions of internationally famous artists' work. This fascinating architectural dream of forms and colors has a colorful tiled facade with different types of windows on a wavy chess board pattern background. In keeping with the natural feel the floor is uneven a "melody for the feet" designed to stimulate and "uplift" the visitor.The relatively new KunstHaus has quickly become an important cultural center in Vienna. The museum is held in the former Thonet houses, with colorful murals adorning the sides of the exterior walls.The museum gives great emphasis on Friedensreich Hundertwasser, with the only permanent display of his work in the world. The museum also puts on specialized exhibitions on other subjects.Also impressive is the KunstHaus Café and Restaurant, with a hundred Thonet chairs that can be used by patrons.A Museum shop is also open during the same hours as the museum.

including "Dreams and their Meaning" (1900) and received the official announcement in 1902 that the Emperor had awarded him an honorary Professorship.Of the 15 rooms in the house, only Freud's "working" rooms are open to the public: the vestibule, waiting room, treatment room and study have been turned into a museum by the Sigmund Freud Society in 1971 and contain some original furnishings, documents and photographs. The vestibule and waiting room have been almost exactly recreated, down to the hat and cane in the cloakroom and the plush upholstery from the turn of the century.The Psychological Wednesday Society which became the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association met here until 1908. Among the displays in the museum are items from Freud's collection of antiquities which his daughter Anna Freud donated to the Society; the majority of the pieces used to be kept in the study. A film narrated by Anna Freud tells the story of the life of the Freud family.

(1919-34) and immortalized in a workers' song as the "little red brick to build a new world". There were 64,000 dwellings in total, but mainly in outlying districts and financed by taxes on luxury items such as the employment of servants and cars, and steep graduation of taxes on housing construction. The tenants, however, paid rents which were well within their means (5-8% of their wages) for the relatively small flats; gas and electricity rates were low and there was no charge for water. The scheme also offered excellent community facilities such as baths, laundries, community rooms, public houses, shops and libraries, nursery schools and paddling pools; but not least there were many green areas which made living in the "Welfare Palaces" more agreeable. Karl Marx Hof, in its brick red and ochre colors, was built with 25 million bricks between 1927 and 1930 to a design by Karl Ehn and contains some 1,600 flats and communal facilities grouped around several inner courtyard gardens (about 80% of the Karl Marx complex is made up of parks and gardens). In February 1934 Karl Marx Hof was the center of the riots between left-wing workers and right-wing extremists and was stormed by the army to suppress the uprising. Today it ranks as an historic monument.

in the 17th C. they first built themselves a little chapel. The present church is based on plans drawn up by Lucas von Hildebrandt in 1716. A number of changes were introduced, and the building was not completed until the middle of the 18th C., probably by Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer. It was consecrated in 1771, but the towers were not completed until 1858-60. It is decorated with particularly beautiful frescoes by F. A. Maulbertsch; dating 1752-53, they are his first major frescoes. The church has eight chapels; the oldest, the Chapel of Sorrows, is in fact the foundation chapel, dating from 1699. The historic votive painting of "Our Lady of Malta" dates from the first half of the 15th C. Of the other chapels, the most important by far is the Chapel of the Holy Cross, to the left of the choir. The picture of Christ on the Cross is also by Maulbertsch and dates from 1722. The votive picture of the Virgin above the High Altar is only a copy. The original is in Rome.