The Fillgraderstiege is a staircase in the sixth district of
Vienna
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Mariahilf
Mariahilf (; ; "Mary's help") is the 6th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850. Mariahilf is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings.
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. It was built from 1905 to 1907 and designed by Max Hegele, a student of
Victor Luntz and
Carl Hasenauer, in an ''
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
'' style to connect the two streets, Fillgradergasse and Theobaldgasse.
The stairs were blocked off in 1981, having been worn down for almost 80 years, and were then repaired between 1982 and 1984, in the process of which a café and art gallery were added in a previously unused inner room behind the stairs, both of which opened on the 1 August 1985.
The Fillgraderstiege staircase was named the fourth most beautiful steps in Europe in a 2004 poll of European art professors .
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''Das Fillgrader'' - The bar on the steps
Buildings and structures completed in 1907
Buildings and structures in Mariahilf
Stairways
Art Nouveau architecture in Vienna
Art Nouveau stairways
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