Herrengasse

The Mr. Alley is a street in the first district of Vienna Inner City.

History

The road dates back to the ancient Roman Limes Route. First mention found 1216. The section between Freyung and Lobkowitzplatz was known in medieval times as high street. Located close to the Imperial Palace, the residence of the Habsburgs, the nobility began preferable here, so to settle in the immediate vicinity of the imperial palace. 1513 built the Lower Austrian Estates (men) here her country house. Since 1547 is called the stretch of road Herrngasse. To date, many formerly aristocratic palaces exist in men's alley, but these were for the most part converted into office use. Today, the term palace is also used for founding temporal interest houses or the former building of the Austro- Hungarian Bank.

Prominent buildings

• Herberstein Palace ( built in 1897, Mr. Gasse 1-3 instead of the Palais Dietrich Stein with the famous Griensteidl )
• Palais Brassican - Wilczek (formerly Palais Lembruch, 1737, Mr. Lane 5)
• Palais Modena (now the Ministry of the Interior, in 1811, Mr. Gasse 7 )
• Palais Mollard - Clary (1689, Mr. Gasse 9 )
• Palais of Lower Austria (formerly Lower Austrian country house, from 1839 to 1848, Mr. Gasse 11 )
• Ferstel (formerly Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1856-1860, Mr. Gasse 14, Freyung 2), the ground floor is Café Central, in a passage of the Danube mermaid fountain.
• Palais Batthyány ( includes parts of the former Palais Orsini -Rosenberg, 1716 Herrngasse 19)
• Palais Trauttmansdorff (1834-1838, Herrngasse 21)
• Palais Porcia ( 1546 Herrngasse 23)
• Skyscraper Herrngasse ( Mr. 6-8, flags lane 2 and Wallner 5-7, the first skyscraper in Vienna, erected in 1913 in place of the demolished Palais Liechtenstein ).

There is also a station Herrngasse the Vienna U -Bahn line U3. In the Herrngasse 10 was 1918-2006 Café manor.