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District guide · Vienna
Alsergrund, Vienna's ninth district, lies immediately north of the historic center and functions as a densely populated residential area. The Sigmund Freud Museum, Votivkirche, and Schubert Geburtshaus document the district's cultural heritage through the lives of notable figures and architectural landmarks. The area provides substantial interest through its museums, religious sites, and historical palaces for those exploring Vienna's intellectual and artistic past.
Editorial responsibility: Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor
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The Sigmund Freud Museum occupies the apartment and consulting rooms at Berggasse 19 in Alsergrund where Sigmund Freud lived and practised from 1891 until June 1938, when he fled Vienna for London after the Nazi annexation of Austria.
Votivkirche
The Votivkirche exists because somebody tried to kill the emperor and failed.
Volksoper
The Volksoper is Vienna's second opera house, in the 9th district, Alsergrund, built for a public that the court-affiliated Hofoper across town did not serve.
Palais Liechtenstein (Gartenpalais)
The Garden Palace (Gartenpalais Liechtenstein) is the Liechtenstein princely family's Baroque summer residence in Alsergrund, the 9th district, built 1691-1711 for Prince Johann Adam Andreas I of Liechtenstein.
The Strudlhofstiege is a public outdoor Art Nouveau stairway in Alsergrund, connecting the upper street Strudlhofgasse to the lower Liechtensteinstrasse across a steep slope.
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