Vienna Arsenal

Several brick buildings in a rectangle layout make up the complex which is located on a bank south of the Landstraßer Gürtel.

It is the most distinguished building group of Romantic historicism in Vienna and was constructed in Italian-medieval and Byzantine-Islamic style.

When Vienna was reorganized to form a new Reichsgau in Nazi Germany, inner city borders were reassigned and the Arsenal as well as the area south of it became part of Landstraße.

In the following years, several new constructions, primarily in the south, were undertaken, such as the workshops for the State Theatres (1959 until 1963) and the rehearsal stage for the Burgtheater in the 1990s.

[1] This facility contained a two climatic wind tunnels capable of simulating all combinations of weather by varying temperature, air pressure, humidity and wind-speed.