The Fillgraderstiege is a staircase in the sixth district of Vienna

Vienna

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, Mariahilf

Mariahilf

Mariahilf is the 6th municipal district of Vienna, Austria . It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850. Mariahilf is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings....

. It was built from 1905 to 1907 and designed by Max Hegele, a student of Victor Luntz and Carl Hasenauer, in an Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...

style to connect the two streets, Fillgradergasse and Theobaldgasse.

The stairs were blocked off in 1981, having been worn down for almost 80 years, and were then repaired between 1982 and 1984, in the process of which a café and art gallery were added in a previously unused inner room behind the stairs, both of which opened on the 1 August 1985.

The Fillgraderstiege staircase was named the fourth most beautiful steps in Europe in a 2004 poll of European art professors .

External links

Das Fillgrader - The bar on the steps