Wien Museum Otto-Wagner-Kirche am Steinhof
Gold-domed Art Nouveau chapel with every pew and corner designed for psychiatric patients.
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This guide to the Wien Museum Otto-Wagner-Kirche am Steinhof starts at its opening on October 8, 1907, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand cut the ribbon and pointedly refused to look at architect Otto Wagner, offended by the gold dome and bare marble. It then turns to who the church was actually built for: the patients of the asylum around it, and the many quiet design choices, from rounded pew corners to how the holy water is dispensed, made with their safety in mind. Listen for why locals nicknamed the hill Lemoniberg, lemon hill, and look up at the gold dome that earned it.
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