!!!Heiligenstadt

Heiligenstadt, until 1892 independent municipality, since then part of 
Vienna´s 19%%sup th/%  district. Viniculture since Roman times. 
Several times destroyed by Hungarians, Turks and the French. Medicinal 
springs from Roman times (thermae cetiae) until the 19%%sup th/% 
 century. Beethoven memorial (1910) in Heiligenstadt Park, 
Beethoven house at Probusgasse no. 6, where Beethoven wrote his 
Heiligenstadt Testament on October 6, 1802. Grave from late Antiquity 
or early Christian era in the Romanesque St. Jakob church. The 
Heiligenstadt charnel house is the only one that has been preserved in 
Vienna (built around 1500).


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