Stephansplatz, Vienna
The Stephansplatz is a
Stock im Eisen
The Stock-im-Eisen ("staff in iron") is located at the corner of Kärntner Straße and Graben in a niche on the corner of the Palais Equitable. It is a section of tree trunk into which hundreds of nails have been hammered since the Middle Ages, and which is ringed by an iron band closed by a large padlock. The earliest written mention of it dates to 1533 and it is the subject of legends about the Devil.
U-Bahn station
The U-Bahn station at Stephansplatz is one of the busiest in the city, and is the only junction between the U1 and U3 underground lines. It is also the nearest U-Bahn station to many of the tourist attractions in the city centre.
Virgilkapelle
In 1973, during excavation works for the U-Bahn station, a
In Popular Culture
The site was the scene of the assassination of Viktor Kedrin in the hugely popular BBC Show Killing Eve, he is murdered outside a sushi restaurant by the assassin Villanelle slicing his femoral artery.
History
At the end of the 19th century, the entire square and its immediate surroundings underwent a redesign with increased building density. (Demolition of the area around the neighboring Brandstätte, moving back the building line at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, removal of the Schmidlinsches Haus, etc.). In this context, Stephansplatz also briefly became a retail center, featuring the Rothberger department store and Anton Kranner's commercial building.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Earlier still, until the 18th century, Stock-im-Eisen-Platz was the Alt-Roßmarkt or Old Horsemarket; Gustav Adolph Schimmer, Das alte Wien. Darstellung der alten Plätze und merkwürdigsten jetzt grösstentheils verschwundenen Gebäude Wien's nach den seltensten gleichzeitigen Originalen. Mit einem erlauternden Texte aus den bewahrtesten Geschichtsquellen, volume 8 Vienna: Zamarski, 1855, p. 14.
- ^ "Haas-Haus". Glass Steel and Stone. Retrieved September 30, 2006.
- Wien Museum. Archived from the originalon April 27, 2006. Retrieved September 30, 2006.
- ^ IDM_admin (2021-01-29). "Verlorenes Erbe (Wien): Rothberger Warenhäuser, Haas-Haus, Stephansdom-Brand". Initiative Denkmalschutz (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-27.
External links
- 360° panorama of Stephansplatz at Panoramic Earth