Gartenpalais Liechtenstein
Alsergrund4.7(3,472)out of 5 on Google
9th district · right bank of the Danube
Alsergrund
Freud's Berggasse, the Liechtenstein Garden Palace, the Votivkirche and the student bars around the old university campus.
What it is
The 9th district runs north from the University towards the Danube Canal and the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof. It is Vienna's medical and intellectual quarter: the vast General Hospital, the old university campus, the Josephinum founded by Joseph II to train army surgeons, and the streets where Sigmund Freud practised for almost half a century. Franz Schubert was born here too, in 1797. It is less a single neighbourhood than a patchwork of them — academic, aristocratic and quietly residential.
What is here
The Sigmund Freud Museum at Berggasse 19, his home and consulting rooms from 1891 until he fled in 1938. The neo-Gothic Votivkirche facing the Ring. The Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, a baroque summer palace in its own park. The Josephinum, with its eighteenth-century anatomical wax models. The Strudlhofstiege, an Art Nouveau outdoor staircase immortalised in a novel by Heimito von Doderer. The Servitenviertel, a small grid of lanes around the Servite church with cafés spilling onto the pavement. For coffee, the classic Café Weimar and two of the city's best roasters, CoffeePirates and Jonas Reindl. Down on the canal: Flex, Grelle Forelle and Das WERK, the core of Vienna's electronic club scene.
What it is like
Studious by day, with students and hospital staff filling cheap lunch spots along Währinger Straße. The Servitenviertel is almost Parisian on a sunny afternoon. At night the district divides: silent residential streets uphill, bass and queues along the canal after midnight at weekends.
Who should stay here
Couples and culture travellers who like a real neighbourhood a short walk from the Ring. Clubbers who want to stumble home from the canal. Anyone visiting the hospital or the university. Good mid-range value and plenty of apartments.
Practical
U2 Schottentor at the district's southern tip, U4 Roßauer Lände along the canal, U6 on the Gürtel, and a fan of tram lines leaving Schottentor up through the middle. The catch: the district is long, and the northern end around the railway station feels far from everything. Choose the Servitenviertel or the streets near Schottentor, and ask for a courtyard room if you are close to the canal clubs.
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Where to stay in Alsergrund
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Frequently asked
Which district of Vienna is Alsergrund in?
Alsergrund is Vienna's 9th district, on the right bank of the Danube, the same side as the historic centre. It is easy to verify from the postcode: the four digits start with 1, the middle two give the district and the last is 0, so any street address here carries 1090. That is the quickest way to find out where a listing actually is before you book it.
What is worth seeing in Alsergrund?
The best-known sights here are Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, Votive Church and Servitenviertel. The full list, with opening hours and a map, is further up this page.
Where should I eat in Alsergrund?
Among the best-rated restaurants in the district are Yido, Café Restaurant Markt58 and MAST Weinbistro. The ratings come from Google and are refreshed periodically — they are not paid placements.
Is Alsergrund a good area to stay in?
It depends what you want from it. The accommodation section above lists a few options in the district, and the write-up at the top of this page says plainly who the area suits and who it does not. The map at the foot of the page is centred on Alsergrund itself.
Is there a proper Viennese coffee house in Alsergrund?
Yes — Kaffekonditorei Irmtraud Mayerhofer and Coffee and Beard. A Viennese coffee house is judged on simple things: the glass of water that arrives with the coffee, the newspapers on wooden holders, and nobody hurrying you out after a single Melange.
Does Alsergrund have any nightlife?
Yes. Reference points in the district include Bar Pani, Amananth's Place and Pappala Pub. For the densest concentration of bars, Viennese nights move to the arches under the U6 along the Gürtel and the streets around Schwedenplatz.
Districts next door
Vienna's districts run into one another without a seam, and the U-Bahn makes most of them closer than they look — these are the nearest, measured from the centre of this one.
Before you go
Skip-the-line ticketsTimed entry booked ahead for Schönbrunn, the Sisi Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum — which in Vienna's high season is a genuinely long queue avoided, and at KHM now a requirement.Check tickets →Museum & palace ticketsMobile tickets for Vienna's museums, palaces and the Riesenrad, bought in advance — useful now that the Kunsthistorisches Museum requires a time slot.See tickets →City passOne pass covering a set of attractions. It pays off only above roughly three paid sights a day — worth the arithmetic before you buy.See what it covers →Self-guided audio toursA guided route on your own phone, at your own pace, for a fraction of a walking tour. Good on the Ringstraße and in the Hofburg courtyards, where the story is not written on the buildings.Browse audio tours →
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