Come with me! Tour guide Michael
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in Vienna
Join me on a unique tour to the Schönbrunn Palace Park and let’s enjoy together the most beautiful baroque garden in Austria […]
Follow me on a moving tour through a green oasis, the beginning of the Alps in the middle of Vienna and lets feel the vibrant athmospher! […]
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The eventful history of Palais Auersperg in the 8th district begins in 1710 with the opening of the residence planned by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt for Hieronymus Capece de Rofrano. He was Postmaster General and a member of the Spanish Council under Emperor Charles VI, the highest authority for […]
The bronze bust of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by sculptor Johann Baptist Feßler from 1849, which impresses with its realistic depiction, was commissioned by art patron and wholesaler Pietro di Galvagni for a memorial in the new building in Rauhensteingasse – the Mozarthof, which had been completed a year earlier. A memorial plaque on the plinth […]
The neo-Gothic mausoleum of Moritz and Wilhelmine von Montléart in the palace park on Gallitzinberg in the 16th district commemorates the French aristocratic Montléart family, who settled in Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century. The starting point was Jules Maximilien Thibaut, Prince de Montléart, Marquis de Rumont, who had acquired a castle (predecessor […]
The Tegetthoff Monument at the Praterstern in the 2nd district from 1886 by Carl Kundmann and Carl von Hasenauer with the 3.5m high figure of Wilhelm von Tegetthoff on a 16m high “honorary column” made of marble on a 5m high pedestal commemorates the victories of the vice-admiral and commander of the Austrian navy in […]
The Roman Catholic Church of St. John in Unterlaa in the 10th district, right next to the Liesingbach stream, is considered one of the oldest churches in Vienna, as some of its components date back to the early 11th century. The location and alignment of the stone foundations in particular suggest a sacred building and […]
Even though the monument is located in the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria, the memorial stone on the municipal border between Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen is also of central importance for Vienna. The 6m-high granite block depicting a knight with a horse by the Austrian sculptor Carl Hermann errected in 1978 commemorates the Battle of Marchfeld […]
The “Memorial for the Victims of Spiegelgrund” on the Otto Wagner site in the 14th district commemorates the children and young people who were systematically tortured and murdered there during the National Socialist era with 772 light steles. The criminal doctors working there killed sick, disabled or, from their point of view, “uneducable” people as […]
The 50,000m2 Rabenhof in Vienna-Landstrasse on the site of the former Krimsky barracks is a housing project from the 1920s that has urban and cultural significance and is considered a prime example of the municipal buildings of “Red Vienna”. The building, designed by Arch. Heinrich Schmid and Hermann Aichinger with its clear, functional forms (superblock) […]
The Julius Meinl house (Meinlhaus) in the inner city at Fleischmarkt 7 was built in 1899 as a trading house for Julius Meinl based on a design by Max Kropf. The building, with its plaster façade and neoclassical décor by Wilhelm Hejda, features stucco reliefs with the coats of arms of the cities of Hamburg, […]
View of the Volksgarten (People’s Garden) from the roof of the Natural History Museum, with the Burgtheater in the background.
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About me
I am a certified tourist guide and tour manager, travel blogger and globetrotter. As a local I love to explore the city that inspires me with my guests.
As a trainer, lecturer and former cabaret artist with stage experience and I stand for eloquence and punchlines.
Follow me on a tour to the most important sights with exciting stories in a good and fun mood!
