The Fillgraderstiege is a staircase in the sixth district of Vienna, Mariahilf. It was built from 1905 to 1907 and designed by Max Hegele, a student of Victor Luntz and Carl Hasenauer, in an Art Nouveau style to connect the two streets, Fillgradergasse and Theobaldgasse.
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The stairs were blocked off in 1981, having been worn down for almost 80 years, and were then repaired between 1982 and 1984, in the process of which a café and art gallery were added in a previously unused inner room behind the stairs, both of which opened on the 1 August 1985.
The Fillgraderstiege staircase was named the fourth most beautiful steps in Europe in a 2004 poll of European art professors .[1]
References
edit- ^ "Die schönsten Stiegen von Wien und Europa" (in German). City of Vienna. 2004-08-30. Archived from the original on 2005-11-05. Retrieved 2006-11-11.
External links
edit- (in German) Das Fillgrader - The bar on the steps Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
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