Isometric Vienna
Isometric Vienna shows the city the way an old city-builder game would: Schönbrunn Palace in the south-west, the old town inside the Ringstraße with St. Stephen’s Cathedral at its heart, the Prater with the Riesenrad, and across the Danube the Donauturm and the towers of Donau City. Drag to explore, zoom in to single streets, and tap a name to learn about the place.
Streets, parks, tram lines and every building footprint come from OpenStreetMap, where about six in ten buildings on this map have a mapped height or number of floors. Those are drawn at their real height; the rest get an estimated four to seven floors. The Riesenrad and the Donauturm are modelled by hand from their published dimensions. Red and white trams run on the real tram network, boats on the Danube and the Danube Canal, lights run round the Riesenrad after dark and sparkle on the hour, and the ☀ button switches the map from night to day.
Places on the map
- Gothic · 136 m
- Vienna’s cathedral and its emblem, “Steffl” to the Viennese. The south tower rises 136 m, and the roof is laid with around 230,000 glazed tiles that form the double-headed eagle. Wikipedia ↗
- 1869 · Ringstraße
- The State Opera opened on the Ring with Mozart’s Don Giovanni and is one of the busiest opera houses in the world. Once a year its stage becomes the dance floor of the Opera Ball. Wikipedia ↗
- Habsburg palace
- For more than six centuries the winter residence of the Habsburgs, grown wing by wing into a city within the city. Today it houses the office of the Austrian president, museums and the Spanish Riding School. Wikipedia ↗
- 1872–1883 · neo-Gothic
- Vienna’s city hall by Friedrich von Schmidt. The iron Rathausmann stands on its 98 m tower; in winter the square in front holds the city’s best-known Christmas market. Wikipedia ↗
- 1856–1879 · neo-Gothic
- Built in thanks after Emperor Franz Joseph survived an assassination attempt in 1853. Its twin openwork spires are 99 m high. Wikipedia ↗
- 1716–1737 · baroque
- Vowed by Emperor Charles VI during the plague of 1713 and designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The green dome is flanked by two columns modelled on Trajan’s Column in Rome. Wikipedia ↗
- 1712–1723 · Prince Eugene
- Two baroque palaces facing each other across a terraced garden, built for Prince Eugene of Savoy. The Upper Belvedere is home to Klimt’s The Kiss. Wikipedia ↗
- summer palace · UNESCO
- The Habsburgs’ summer residence with 1,441 rooms, vast baroque gardens and the Gloriette on the hill behind. Its zoo, opened in 1752, is the oldest still running in the world. Wikipedia ↗
- 1897 · 64.75 m
- The giant Ferris wheel of the Prater, one of the oldest still turning. It became world-famous in the film The Third Man (1949). Wikipedia ↗
- 1964 · 252 m
- The Danube Tower, Austria’s tallest structure, with revolving restaurants at around 160 and 170 m and a view over the whole city. Wikipedia ↗
- 1874–1883 · Theophil Hansen
- The Greek-revival parliament on the Ring, fronted by the Pallas Athene fountain. Wikipedia ↗
- public since 1766
- A former imperial hunting ground that Joseph II opened to everyone. Woods, meadows and the 4.4 km Hauptallee, with the funfair of the Wurstelprater at its tip. Wikipedia ↗
- 2013 · 220 m
- Austria’s tallest building, by Dominique Perrault, on the far bank of the Danube in Donau City. Wikipedia ↗
- 1983–1985
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s colourful council block, with uneven floors, onion domes and trees growing out of the windows. Wikipedia ↗
- 1891 · art history
- The Habsburg collections in a palace on the Ring, including the world’s largest group of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Wikipedia ↗
- former imperial stables
- One of the largest cultural quarters in the world, with the Leopold Museum and the mumok around courtyards full of loungers in summer. Wikipedia ↗
- market · Wienzeile
- Vienna’s best-known market, a long row of food stalls and restaurants along the Wienzeile, with a flea market on Saturdays. Wikipedia ↗
- 1898 · Joseph Maria Olbrich
- The exhibition hall of the Vienna Secession under its dome of gilded laurel leaves, home of Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze. Over the door: “To every age its art, to art its freedom.” Wikipedia ↗
- railway station
- Vienna’s main station, opened in 2014 on the site of the old Südbahnhof, under a roof of folded diamonds. Wikipedia ↗
- arm of the Danube
- The Danube Canal runs along the edge of the old town, lined with summer bars, cycle paths and some of the city’s best street art. Wikipedia ↗
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