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Dear people
At the weekend, I've been in downtown Vienna for what felt like an eternity, that is, in the "inner city", as we Viennese call it. Since a concert was coming up and I still had time to start, I took a short tour.

I started here at the so-called rubble women monument at the Mölker bastion.
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The rubble woman looks at the slightly concealed Liebenberg monument (L. was mayor of Vienna at the time of the 2nd Turkish siege) and at the main building of the University of Vienna. It was founded in 1365 and is therefore the oldest university in (today's) German-speaking countries (only Prague and Krakow are older).

In the inner courtyard of the Pasqualati House, in which Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) had lived several times. Here he is said to have composed "Fidelio", but also the piano piece "Für Elise". The 4th floor now houses a Beethoven Museum.
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A passage in the Palais Ferstel.

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The Palais Ferstel between Herrengasse and Freyung was originally a stock exchange building, was badly destroyed in World War II and restored around 1980. It also houses the "Café Central", which has existed since 1786.
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The "Central" is certainly one of the most architecturally impressive coffee houses in Vienna. You think you're sitting in a cathedral. Instead of choral music, however, there is a live pianist. The typical newspaper rack to the left of the waiter. The range of international newspapers was, however, very modest (no wonder, the number of international tourists is just as modest at the moment).

A permanent guest here is a papier-mâché figure of the "coffee house literary" and bohemian Peter Altenberg, who frequented here during his lifetime.
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Strengthened by the caffeinization, we went on to the Hofburg.
This fountain on the facade of the Michaelertrakt is called "Macht zur See" and was built in 1893 by the sculptor Rudolf Weyr.
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The Fiakers are driving again, even if not in the same number as before. Completely different means of transport, the e-scooters (left in the picture) are or are lying around almost everywhere like rubbish in Vienna 😟
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Via the Kohlmarkt you come to Graben, one of the most frequented streets in the old town.
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Here you can also find the plague column, a 21m high Trinity column from 1693, which was donated as thanks for the end of the devastating plague epidemic of 1679.
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The ditch leads into Stephansplatz, where you can admire St. Stephen's Cathedral or "Steffl" in its new, old splendor.
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It had been scaffolded for years and apparently the lockdown was used to almost complete the sandblast cleaning of the facade.

Here the view from the west with the main gate (called "Giant Gate", but it has nothing to do with giants who supposedly helped with the construction). All of the details and ornaments on this facade alone are worth a post in their own right, so I'd rather leave it alone.
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Back over the ditch you come to Bognergasse, a rendezvous for the wealthy and everyone who thinks they are. In front of the Louis Vuitton flagship store, the usual line of people waiting to be let in (that was also the case before Corona)! That can take a while, because every customer is provided with a personal advisor who, if they wish, shows and explains everything, from luxury watches to crocodile bags.
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Vis-a-vis, at Zum Schwarzen Kameel you can be catered for. Even at 30 degrees, the waiters wear white suits here.
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Then we went to the Hoher Markt and the anchor clock located there.
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It is considered a jewel of Art Nouveau. @siriusgaia had already described them in more detail here.

The Kornhäuselturm is rather inconspicuous and definitely not a tourist attraction.
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This nine-story building was built as early as 1825-1827. With a height of 35m, it is the oldest skyscraper in Vienna. The Biedermeier writer Adalbert Stifter lived here in the 1840s.

The oldest part of the city can be reached via the Jerusalem Staircase. Here, on Desider-Friedmann-Platz, a simple memorial stone commemorates the victims of the terrorist attack on November 2, 2020, in which an Islamic assassin shot 17 people and killed 4 in the process.
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You come to Ruprechtsplatz through Judengasse. With its presumed founding 740-800, the Ruprechtskirche is one of the earliest churches in Vienna.
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We went back over smaller alleys, largely spared from the (already corona-mitigated) stream of tourists. The attentive can make many a discovery here, such as this exquisite chocolate shop that thankfully survived.
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In the display there is a bust of Nefertiti made of 20kg of white chocolate.
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Time passed and I had to hurry to get back to the concert in time.

Here is a photo of the magnificent large ballroom of the University of Vienna. The concert itself war but in the small ballroom next to it, as it has better acoustics