My summer pause has ended, and I again welcome all friends and visitors of my blog Rene Delicious Life.
I travelled a lot some months and now I’m ready to tell about and to show all places that I visited.
Today I begin the chronicle story about lengthy and, in my opinion, very interesting architectural-historical route of Vienna.
We’ll start from one of the Viennese landmark – Karlskirche, the creation of architect Johann Bernhard Fisher von Erlach and will finish with other, no less known Shönbrunn Palace of the same architect.
A little bit of history.
The 19th century was coming to the end. There were implemented some important city projects in Vienna. And one of them was: Wien River that flows through the Vienna (15 km within the city limits) was concluded in concrete beds or hidden under the ground. Thus, it was possible to stop the floods. In result, the landscape of a big territory from Karlskirche up to Schönbrunn Palace completely was changed, and the main architect of those years Otto Wagner completely transform a habitual view of this flooded area before to magnificent parkway which now named Wienzeile and is one of the Vienna’s longest Streets.
Karlskirche or St Charle’s Church was built in 18th century and was a parish church of imperial family. In times when there wasn’t infill development around Ringße and Hofburg Palace was in direct vision from the Church.
Karlskirche is one of the most well known Viennese sights so I won’t overburden my story with details as Karlskirche is described well in any tourist guide. My purpose for today was to designate a start point of a route and I place some photos of Karlscirche and we begin a walk along one of the longest Viennese streets – Wienzeile.
