Vienna's Ringstrasse. Franz Joseph I, emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, began creating the Ringstrasse in the 1850s, and work continued for four decades. The Ringstrasse is a road that forms a ...
The name of Vienna’s former mayor Karl Lueger was finally expunged from a section of the city’s main boulevard, the Ringstrasse, in July 2012. Lueger was a modernizer who, at the end of the 19th ...