Regal / Nanut Vienna – A Doctor’s Guide

15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-211-48952-9
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Vienna – medically. One can look at Vienna from this perspective, too. There are traces to be found almost everywhere in the city, as not all that long ago Vienna was, from the viewpoint of medical history, regarded as the "Mecca of Medicine". This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the inner city and the ninth district; the former was once the heart of mediaeval Vienna while the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) was established in Alsergrund, as the ninth district is known. However, a number of tours lead visitors outside the city and reveal Vienna from a more hidden perspective, as they lie somewhat outside the beaten tourist path and so have their own special attraction. Finding one’s way around this book – and hopefully also around Vienna – is easy. Having decided on your tour you can orient yourself according to the respective overview map. But, as man doth not live by medicine alone, there arealso a number of notes on art history and a list of good cafés and restaurants. This allows the experiences to be digested in an appropriately Viennese way. A separate museum tour is devoted to museums without fixed opening hours, which contain special collections that exist only in Vienna.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regal, Wolfgang

Nanut, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;6
3;Tour 1 From the old university to Stephansplatz;10
4;Tour 2 From Stephansplatz through the inner city;24
5;Tour 3 Around the Ring;44
6;Tour 4 Through the Old General Hospita;60
7;Tour 5 The New General Hospital and the "New Clinics";80
8;Tour 6 The White City and Lemoniberg;94
9;Tour 7 Billroth House ;102
10;Tour 8 Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof /Vienna Central Cemetery 11th District, 234 Simmeringer Hauptstrasse Open throughout the year;110
11;Tour 9 Pharmacy in bloom. Botanical Gardens of the University of Vienna;124
12;Tour 10 Art Collections of the Belvedere;134
13;Tour 11 Schönbrunn;142
14;Tour 12 Nonument to a dream;152
15;Tour 13 The muscle man and the wax Venus;158
16;Tour 14 No. 19 Berggasse A visit to the archaeologist of the soul. Where the most famous couch in the world does not – unfortunately – stand;164
17;Tour 15 The Narrenturm – unique in both medical and architectural terms;172
18;Museum Tour;182