Vienna: Misery and Crime around 1900 (walking tour, English)

Vienna: Misery and Crime around 1900 (walking tour, English)

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A different view of Vienna beyond the Habsburg romanticism – a tour through the poor districts of the past from today's perspective.

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Let us shed light on those corners of the city that otherwise remain hidden.
A tour off the beaten track.
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In 1908, the Viennese journalist Emil Kläger published a book in which he reported on people living underground in Vienna – vagabonds, outsiders who no longer found a place in society and lived in the sewers of the ever-growing city. His illustrated lectures about the conditions in the underground ensured full halls. Misery and crime attracted the audience. This tour follows in the footsteps of Emil Kläger and explores the other side of Vienna around 1900. You will learn about the poorhouses, warming houses, beggars and strotters and how they made a living. We take a look behind the scenes of a big city at the end of the monarchy, which was only able to solve its social problems years later. The tour starts in Floßgasse in Vienna's second district and ends at Schwarzenbergplatz in the first district.