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Brand des Ringtheaters - Gedenktafel

Schottenring 7-9, Innere Stadt (1010), Vienna

The record

Type
Commemorative plaque (Gedenktafel)
Material
Stein
Plaque made
1982
Epoch
Nach 1945
Address
Schottenring 7-9
District
Innere Stadt (1010)
City
Vienna (Wien)
Country
Austria
Coordinates
48.21495, 16.36402
Object number
94669

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1813 map "Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1813 · Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1837 · I, II, III, IV Sections. Umgebung von Wien. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1843 · (With directional lighting) Neuester Plan von Wien und Dessen 34 Vorstaedten in Relief. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1866 · Plan der Haupt-u. Residenz Stadt Wein mit der neuen Bezirkseintheilung, Strassenbenennung… (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1906 · Vienna (Wein) and its Environs. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The City of Vienna's record

Zum Andenken an die Opfer / des Ringtheaterbrandes. / An Stelle des am 8. Dezember 1881 / abgebrannten Theaters stiftete / Kaiser Franz Joseph I. das Sühnhaus. / Dieses wurde im zweiten Weltkrieg / zerstört. /
Gesellschaft der Freunde Wiens / 1982

English translation

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In memory of the victims / of the Ringtheater fire. / In place of the theatre burned down on 8. December 1881, / Emperor Franz Joseph I endowed the Sühnhaus. / This was destroyed in the Second World War.
Gesellschaft der Freunde Wiens / 1982

Other plaques nearby

Other plaques in the City's record within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Datenquelle: Stadt Wien – data.wien.gv.at (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). Inscriptions and notes are reproduced unchanged. Stadt Wien · CC BY 4.0
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