Ankeruhr
iThomas Ledl (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Ready-made walk · Vienna

Medieval Vienna: Clocks, Churches and Taverns

4 stops · ~50 min · 1.2 km

Hidden Gems

A short stroll into the oldest corner of the city, starting at St Stephen’s Cathedral and continuing to the Ankeruhr, a musical clock built as a bridge between two buildings. Find Ruprechtskirche, Vienna’s oldest standing church, and end at the Griechenbeisl, a tavern whose documented history goes back to the fifteenth century.

The stops, in walking order

  1. Ankeruhr
    iThomas Ledl (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Stop 1: Ankeruhr

    ~3 min here

    Ankeruhr is a large musical clock built as a bridge between the buildings of Ankerhof.

  2. Ruprechtskirche
    iC.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Stop 2: Ruprechtskirche

    ~15 min here

    Ruprechtskirche is a Romanesque church, and its surviving substance makes it Vienna’s oldest church still standing.

  3. Griechenbeisl
    iClemens PFEIFFER, 1190 Wien (Attribution)

    Stop 3: Griechenbeisl

    ~3 min here

    Griechenbeisl is a historic Viennese restaurant at Fleischmarkt 11, beside the Greek Church of the Holy Trinity.

  4. Stephansdom
    iC.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Stop 4: Stephansdom

    ~15 min here

    Stephansdom is Vienna’s Roman Catholic cathedral, a vast church whose story reaches back to the twelfth century.

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