Step Into History
Walk Vienna in 1490
AI rebuilds Wien (Vienna) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Late Gothic Vienna, 1490
Vienna in 1490 sits at the end of a turbulent decade: Matthias Corvinus's Hungarian occupation has just ended and the old Habsburg order is reasserting itself. Walk through a dense medieval centre of stone towers and timber houses to see the completed south tower and patterned roof of Stephansdom, the compact Hofburg courts, riverside harbours on a Danube arm, and the ubiquitous cellar doors that open onto wine beneath the streets.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Vienna as it stood in 1490 (“History of Vienna”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Danube Bank at Nußdorf
- ↳ Boatmen's Wine Tavern · interior
- 2. Rossau Harbour
- ↳ Harbour Cooperage · interior
- 3. Wien River Mouth
- ↳ River Customs Hall · interior
- 4. Stubentor Gate
- ↳ Stubentor Guardroom · interior
- 5. Rotenturmstraße
- 6. Stephansplatz and Cathedral
- ↳ New Vaulted Nave · interior
- 7. Stock‑im‑Eisen
- 8. Neuer Markt
- ↳ Neuer Markt Exchange · interior
- 9. The Graben
- ↳ Graben Market Hall · interior
- 10. Stock‑im‑Eisen Corner
- 11. Hoher Markt
- 12. Fleischmarkt Street
- ↳ Butchers' Hall · interior
- 13. Ruprechtskirche Quarter
- 14. Schottenstift Abbey
- ↳ Abbey Chapter House · interior
- 15. Wipplingerstraße
- 16. Kohlmarkt Lane
- 17. Am Hof Square
- 18. Hofburg Old Core
- ↳ Hofburg Chapel · interior
- ↳ Ducal Great Hall · interior
- 19. Augustinerkirche Front
- ↳ Augustinian Choir Stalls · interior
- 20. Burggraben and Moat
- 21. Wieden Vineyards and Cellars
- ↳ Communal Wine Cellar · interior
- 22. Kahlenberg Panorama