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Maps Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Shopping Events Hotels Vienna MMarcharch - AAprilpril 22015015 The Prater Season opening Springtime Vienna Parks and terraces inyourpocket.com N°27 - €1.75 Restaurant „Das Schick“ at Hotel Am Parkring Indulge in treats – above the rooftops of Vienna „Das Schick“ your restaurant in Vienna, combines $XVWULDQWUDGLWLRQDQGVSLULWHG6SDQLVKÁDLU Experience a unique, appealing atmosphere, GHOLFLRXV$XVWULDQFXLVLQHZLWK6SDQLVKLQÁXHQFHV and a menu that will enchant you. Indulge in the fantastic view over the roofs of the Austrian capital and treat yourself to culinary delights in the elegant atmosphere of the restaurant. Experience the superb quality of the creative and seasonal meals with the adapted wines and beverages. Enjoy premium Austrian cuisine – with a “Spanish kiss” at Restaurant “Das Schick”! Restaurant “Das Schick” at Hotel Am Parkring Parkring 12, 1010 Vienna Tel. +43 (1) 514 80-417, [email protected], www.das-schick.at Opening hours – Monday to Friday 12:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Sunday and holiday 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Kitchen at noon until 2.30 p.m., in the evenings until 10.00 p.m. Contents History 5 Arriving in Vienna 6 Getting your bearings on S, U and tram Getting Around 7 Plains, trains, automobiles Vienna Districts 8 Getting streetwise Stadtpark Basics 9 Essential travel tips Nightlife 34 The Prater 10 Bars, clubs and other dark rooms Vienna’s prime amusement park Heurigen & Wine bars 38 Culture & Events 12 Wine, wine and Wien Concerts, exhibitions and more Skiing 39 City of Classical Music 18 Slippery slopes near Vienna Vienna sounds good Sightseeing 40 Restaurants 20 From imperial to contemporary From Wiener Schnitzel to BBQ Jewish Vienna 46 Coff eehouses 32 Synagogues & museums Coff ee, cake & culture Day trips 48 The best sights around Vienna Children’s Vienna 49 It’s a child’s world Shopping 50 Whatever you want Hotels 54 From park bench to Park Grand Expat Vienna 58 Tips for expats Directory 60 Maps & Index Centre map 61-63 Street register 64 Public transport map 65 The Prater Venue index 66 facebook.com/ViennaInYourPocket March - April 2015 3 Foreword This year, the usually reserved Austrians may betray a shred of excitement, as Vienna hosts the huge Eurovision Publisher song festival event in May, watched by millions across the In Your Pocket GmbH Axel-Springer-Straße 39 planet. And Australia is participating as a special guest in this 10969 Berlin European party – see page 17 for more details. Tel: +49 30 27 90 79 81 Until the world drops by in May, we have Vienna all to Fax: +49 30 24 04 73 50 ourselves, and there’s plenty to enjoy this spring. As the Vienna offi ce Tel: +43 664 131 85 97 weather warms it’s fi nally time to take back the parks and [email protected] public spaces in Vienna. Finally we can enjoy a coff ee on the www.inyourpocket.com terraces of the famed cafés again. For a special experience, Printed by Ueberreuter Druckzentrum GmbH head to the mother of all parks in Vienna, the Prater Circulation 15,000 copies bimonthly amusement park, which celebrates the arrival of the warmer season in March. Editorial Editor-in-Chief Jeroen van Marle Whatever you do, do let us know your tips and comments at Contributors Paul Nogid, Dune Johnson, Gretl Satorius [email protected]. Enjoy Vienna. Layout Tomáš Haman; Photos Evi Bauer, Reinhard Böhm Maps IYP GmbH, Cover © Prater Wien GmbH COVER STORY Sales & Circulation General Manager Stephan Krämer The Riesenrad Ferris wheel towers Production Manager Philippe Krüger behind the carousel at Vienna’s Accounting Martin Wollenhaupt famous Prater amusement park. Don’t Advertising Managers Stefan Bauer, Mario Böhm miss the festivities as the park kicks off the 2015 season on 15 March. Read all Copyright notice & Editor’s note about it on page 10. Text and photos (unless otherwise stated) copyright In Your Pocket GmbH 2010-2015. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form with- out written permission from the copyright owner. The IYP & LES CLEFS D’OR brand name In Your Pocket is used under license from UAB In Your Pocket (Bernardinu 9-4, Vilnius, Lithuania The Vienna In Your Pocket city guide is of- tel. (+370-5) 212 29 76). fi cially endorsed by Les Clefs D’Or (www. 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By 15 BCE, the town had developed into a that off ers people work and the Roman frontier city called Vindobona, protecting the youth a wide range of oppor- Roman Empire from Germanic tribes. tunities. Vienna is also the city of green parks, calm, dreamy alleys, art and music. This city © Stadt Wien/PID, HABSBURGS attracts people. Vienna is grow- Photo: Hubert Dimko AND OTTOMANS ing; life can be felt on every corner and in every street. During the Middle Ages, Vienna became the residence Vienna is rightly deemed a city worth living in, a model of the Habsburg dynasty in 1440 and eventually grew to of providing medical and social benefi ts. become the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. On their As the headquarters of international agencies such march towards western Europe, the Ottoman armies as OPEC, the UN and the International Atomic Energy were twice stopped at Vienna in the 16th and 17th Agency, Vienna is also a cosmopolitan city of culture centuries. During the 1529 Siege of Vienna, the city was and gastronomy. The rich spectrum of cultural off erings lucky to escape defeat and was saved by an early winter makes Vienna a leading cultural metropolis; one often and epidemics. A century later, the city’s fortifi cations hears the term “international capital of music” connect- had been greatly expanded and proved their worth ed with it. The Viennese music institutions with their during the 1683 Battle of Vienna, when they helped grand tradition constantly keep this reputation fresh the city survive for two months, allowing the army led and carry it forth into the world. by Polish King Jan Sobieski to assemble and defeat the In the best tradition of the many Viennese markets, Ottomans for good. I can only say: have a look around! Welcome to Vienna! Dr. Michael Häupl 18TH CENTURY Baroque was the style of the century, and local nobility started constructing palaces in the countryside immediately built, but also shelling of locals supporting the socialist outside the city, resulting in several magnifi cent summer militia by the Austrian Army during the 1934 civil war. palaces. Adolf Hitler – himself an Austrian – triumphantly TH marched into town and spoke from the Hofburg balcony 19 CENTURY during the Anschluss (‘joining’) of Austria in 1938. Vienna became the capital of the huge Austrian Vienna’s thousands of Jews suff ered badly, harassed by Empire in 1804, and later of the Austro-Hungarian both the state and anti-Semitic citizens, and decimated Empire, playing an important role in European and by the Holocaust. world politics. The arts blossomed, and classical music witnessed golden years. The rule of Emperor Franz Vienna was badly damaged in 1944 and 1945 during Joseph I transformed the city; the city walls were the Soviet advance, but largely reconstructed in the demolished to make way for the Ringstraße boulevard 1950s-60s, with the city centre proclaimed a UNESCO lined lined with impressive buildings, the city expanded World Heritage Site in 2001. Post-war Vienna was divided to include, and the Danube river which caused serious into sectors ruled by The USA, UK, France and the Soviet floods was canalised and tamed. Union just like Berlin. The occupation lasted 10 years, in which time spies from east and west played their Cold 20TH CENTURY War games. Industrialisation of and immigration to Vienna lead to a Austria regained full independence in 1955, and period of expansion. By 1910, Vienna was the sixth largest from the 1970s Vienna became the host city of many city in the world, with large numbers of Czech and Jewish important international organisations, including various residents.