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The Secession Building, located quite close to the high-baroque Karlskirche featured in our last post, was designed in 1897 as a statement of modernity by a leader in a new movement of artists and designers then flourishing in Vienna. After being burnt by retreating German forces at the end of WWII, it was later lovingly restored.
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The Karlskirche (St Charles Church), says my guide book, was built between 1715 and 1737 to honor the patron saint of the fight against the plague, which by 1713 had killed more than 8,000 residents of Vienna. For a fee, we were able not only to enter the building and climb to an overlook outside, but also to take a scaffolding-elevator within the sanctuary to a scaffolding-walkway high above the sanctuary, from which perspective I photographed the ornamented window in the gallery below.
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(so much world, so little time....) 