!!!Karlsplatz

Karlsplatz Square, major square and busy traffic junction in 
Vienna´s 1st and 4th districts posing a major problem to the 
cityplanners of Vienna. The biggest part of the square is the Ressel 
park with several monuments in the southern part and bounded by a 
Protestant school and by the University of Technology. It adjoins an 
area dominated by the  Karlskirche, (in front of the church is a water 
basin with a sculpture by Henry Moore) by the Historisches Museum and 
by the buildings of the Winterthur Insurance Company. The Musikverein 
concert hall, the Kuenstlerhaus exhibition hall and the 
Handelsakademie commercial school are cut off from the square. The 
first district can only be reached by an underpass which forms part of 
the underground or via Operngasse. The "Stadtbahnpavillons" (pavilions 
formerly serving as entrances to the former Stadtbahn transit line) 
were preserved when the new underground was built.


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