About this walk
Within a single square kilometre, a handful of thirty-somethings turned European art, music and architecture on its head.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
The city that reinvented everything at once
Around 1900, a generation of thirty-somethings in Vienna decided that art, architecture and even the way we think about the mind had to start over.
- 2Stop 2
The boulevard that never came
Two facades of a boulevard that was never finished, one covered in tiled flowers, the other in gold.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
The glass bathtub
Otto Wagner had a bathroom with a glass bathtub built for himself, and first put it on display at an exhibition.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
The river beneath the market
Under the stalls of Vienna's most famous market runs a river the city would rather forget.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
The birdcatcher above the gate
Above a side gate of this theatre stands the man who had it built, dressed as a birdcatcher.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
The Golden Cabbage
The Viennese christened the gilded dome the golden cabbage straightaway, and that is what it has stayed ever since.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
The academy that said no
Two years running, this academy turned away the same applicant, and watched another walk out in protest.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
Café Nihilism
The interior was so bare that Vienna renamed the place Café Nihilism, and that is exactly why everyone turned up.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
Mahler closes the doors
For ten years Mahler ran this house, and he started by shutting the doors once the music began.
Read the story - 10Stop 10
A station as a calling card
A city tram stop got marble, gold and sunflowers, because to Wagner public transport mattered.
Read the story - 11Stop 11
The house they walked out of
The house they walked out of, and the argument that led up to it, came down to money and influence more than anything else.
Read the story - 12Stop 12
The Slap Concert
A concert in this hall got so out of hand that it went down in history as the slap concert.
Read the story - 13Stop 13
The year it all stopped
In 1918 Klimt, Wagner, Moser and Schiele all died within a single year, and with them this city ceased to exist.
Ready when you are
Walk 1900 with ROODS.
13 stops through Vienna. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
