Graben
The Graben is one of the most famous squares in Vienna's first district, the city center. It begins at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz next to the Palais Equitable, and ends at the junction of Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bus stop
- Description: street in Vienna, Austria
- Also known as: “Graben, Vienna” and “Graben/Petersplatz”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plague Column, Vienna and St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
Plague Column, Vienna
Photo: Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
The Plague Column, or Trinity Column, is a Holy Trinity column located on the Graben, a street in the inner city of Vienna, Austria. Erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679, the Baroque memorial is one of the best known and most prominent sculptural artworks in the city.
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Stephen's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna, Austria, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn. St. Stephen’s Cathedral is situated 280 metres east of Graben.
Peterskirche
Church
Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Peterskirche is a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church in Vienna, Austria. It was transferred in 1970 by the Archbishop of Vienna Franz Cardinal König to the priests of the Opus Dei.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bermudadreieck and Josefstadt.
Josefstadt
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Josefstadt is the 8th district of Vienna. It is bounded on the north side by Alser Straße, by the "2er Linie" on the east, Lerchenfelder Straße on the south, and the Gürtel on the west.
Graben
- Categories: square, street, and transportation
- Location: Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.20909° or 48° 12′ 33″ northLongitude
16.36956° or 16° 22′ 10″ eastElevation
193 metres (633 feet)Network
Verkehrsverbund Ost-RegionOpen location code
8FWR6959+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 559267413OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platformOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
10346420Wikidata ID
Q699937
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Ukrainian—“Graben” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Graben”
- Basque: “Graben (Viena)”
- Basque: “Graben”
- Chinese: “格拉本大街”
- Dutch: “Graben”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرابين”
- Estonian: “Graben”
- French: “Graben”
- German: “Graben”
- German: “der Graben” (historical)
- Greek: “Γκράμπεν”
- Hebrew: “גראבן”
- Indonesian: “Graben, Wina”
- Italian: “Graben”
- Latin: “ad FOSSAM FORI vulgò AD FOSSAM.” (historical)
- Polish: “Plac Graben”
- Romanian: “Graben”
- Russian: “Грабен”
- Spanish: “Graben”
- Turkish: “Graben”
- Ukrainian: “Грабен (Відень)”
- Ukrainian: “Грабен”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Graben”. Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.