!!!Volksgarten

Volksgarten, Vienna, 1%%sup st/%  district, gardens laid out 1819-1823 
on the grounds of the former rampart complex (destroyed by the French 
in 1809) near Ballhausplatz square, gardens extended in 1862 toward 
Ringstrasse boulevard after the city moat had been filled up. In 
1822/23, P. von Nobile established a coffeehouse in the 
Volksgarten (the "Cortisches Kaffeehaus") which was also the 
scene of concerts by J. Strauss the Elder, J. Lanner and others, and 
later also by E. Strauss. Sights on the grounds of the gardens include 
the  Theseus Temple (1820-1823), a basin with fountain sculptures by 
V. Tilgner (1880), the Grillparzer monument by C. Hasenauer, C. 
Kundmann and R. Weyr (1889), and a marble monument of the enthroned 
Empress Elisabeth (by H. Bitterlich), situated in a garden by F. 
Ohmann (1907).

!Literature
F. Czeike, Wien Innere Stadt, 1992; idem, Historisches 
Lexikon Wien, 1992ff.


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