Schönlaterngasse

The Schönlaterngasse is a famous, narrow, winding alley in the center of Vienna. As the road (No. 5 Schönlaterngasse ) passes the Heiligenkreuzer yard, she was called in the Middle Ages road of the lords of the Holy Cross, later Gäßlein as you go to Heiligenkreuzerhof alley halfway down Heiligenkreuzerhof and Gaessel the Heiligenkreuzerhof. From the 17th century, the name was to the beautiful Lantern common, but until 1776, the beginning of the alley still Heiligenkreuzergässl said. Since 1780, the name Schönlaterngasse. The obstruction goes back to the High Middle Ages, most facades are from the Baroque period.

The alley originally extended only to today's Jesuit Church, since the rest was up to the Post Alley section of a cross street that led to the wool line. This little street opposite the High School but disappeared in 1624, when the Jesuits were here to build the church and an enlarged university buildings.

Named Schönlaterngasse is named after the former house sign " For beautiful lantern " at No. 6 on which a lantern is attached. The original lantern is located in the Vienna Museum, now finds himself in the alley itself only a copy that was made in 1971 by Otto Schmirler.

The most famous house of Schönlaterngasse is the Basiliskenhaus ( No. 7). A well-known Viennese legend has it that the house well of the house lived a basilisk in 1212. A Bäckerbub noticed the monster and wanted to take it off in front of a crowd accumulated. The boy rose with a mirror in the well down. They had previously warned him that the look of a basilisk a living being turned to stone. At the bottom of the boy held the basilisk the mirror to her face, whereupon he turned to stone. Today, a fresco on the front wall of the house shows the exploits of the boy. The accompanying inscription was in 1932 made ​​to the original text of 1577.

At number 9, which dates from the 16th century and was remodeled in 1799 by Peter Mollner, now houses the Kunstverein Old Forge. You can still visit the old blacksmith workshop with original tools.

The house at No. 11 is the Built in the early 18th century Old Jesuit.

Currently have a total of four different valid Austrian postage stamps and a silver commemorative coin to 10 € (2009) Schönlaterngasse the subject.