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District guide · Vienna

Landstraße

A photograph of Landstraße
Photograph · C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0

Landstraße, Vienna's 3rd district near the city center, is a densely populated urban area established in the 19th century. The Belvedere palace, Hundertwasserhaus, and Wiener Konzerthaus stand among its notable landmarks. The district holds architectural and cultural significance, with historical palaces, museums, and gardens reflecting centuries of Viennese heritage.

Editorial responsibility: Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

Practical information
Language spoken
German
German is Austria's official language; Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian also have official status in some regions
Dialling code
+43 1
Vienna landlines; drop the leading 0 of 01 when calling from abroad
Currency
Euro (€, EUR)
Austria introduced euro banknotes and coins in 2002
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 144 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Not recorded
No verified national official source was found
Tap water
Safe to drink
Austria's national tourism authority states that tap water is drinkable in every region

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Historic monuments 6 Museums 3 Places of worship 1 Nature sites 1 Viewpoints 0 Food and drink 0 Markets and shopping 1 Entertainment 0 Nightlife 0 Family attractions 0 Art and culture 0 Activities 0

Typical visit duration

Up to 1 hour 8 1 to 2 hours 3 Half a day or more 1

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History 10 Art 1 Museums 3 Nature 1 Sea and beach 1 Viewpoints 0
  1. Belvedere Belvedere
    01 2 hours

    Belvedere

    Belvedere is Prince Eugene of Savoy’s former summer residence, not one palace but a carefully staged Baroque ensemble in Vienna’s Landstraße district.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  2. Hundertwasserhaus Hundertwasserhaus
    02 15 min

    Hundertwasserhaus

    Hundertwasserhaus is a private residential complex in Vienna’s 3rd district, Landstraße, at the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse. Friedensreich Hundertwasser created the artistic concept with architect Joseph Krawina, and construction took place from 1983 to 1985.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  3. Belvedere 21 Belvedere 21
    03 1 hr 30 min

    Belvedere 21

    Belvedere 21 is Vienna's museum for contemporary art, housed in a steel-and-glass pavilion in the Schweizergarten, a few hundred metres south of the Baroque Belvedere palace complex it is administratively part of.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  4. Wittgenstein House Wittgenstein House
    04 30 min

    Wittgenstein House

    Haus Wittgenstein

    Haus Wittgenstein — also called the Stonborough House — is a modernist house at Kundmanngasse 19 in Vienna's 3rd district, built in 1926-1928 for Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  5. Trinity column, Radetzkystraße 1, Landstraße Trinity column, Radetzkystraße 1, Landstraße
    05 45 min

    Trinity column, Radetzkystraße 1, Landstraße

    Dreifaltigkeitssäule

    The Dreifaltigkeitssäule, or Trinity Column, stands at Radetzkystraße 1 in Vienna's Landstraße district. This religious monument represents the Holy Trinity and forms part of the city's extensive heritage of plague columns and devotional structures erected across Central Europe.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  6. Soviet War Memorial Soviet War Memorial
    06 10 min

    Soviet War Memorial

    Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee

    The Soviet War Memorial on Schwarzenbergplatz commemorates the Red Army soldiers killed during the Vienna Offensive of April 1945, and was built and unveiled by Soviet authorities the same year, within months of the city's capture.

    • High
    • Historic monument
  7. Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Heeresgeschichtliches Museum
    07 2 hr 30 min

    Heeresgeschichtliches Museum

    The Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, the Museum of Military History, is Austria's oldest purpose-built museum structure, opened in 1891 inside the Arsenal complex as the k.k. Hofwaffenmuseum and renamed to its current form in 1955.

    • High
    • Museum
  8. Palais Schwarzenberg Palais Schwarzenberg
    08 15 min

    Palais Schwarzenberg

    Palais Schwarzenberg is a Baroque garden palace at the edge of the Belvedere district, begun for Count Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld-Fondi and continued after his death by the Schwarzenberg family, who gave it its present name.

    • Notable
    • Historic monument

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