{"id":39813,"date":"2021-12-31T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=39813"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:03:01","slug":"lehar-schikaneder-schlossel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/lehar-schikaneder-schlossel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leh\u00e1r-Schikaneder-Schl\u00f6ssel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/leharschlosselsmall.jpg\" alt=\"House number 18\" class=\"wp-image-39828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/leharschlosselsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/leharschlosselsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Vienna has plenty of residences with a musical connection. One house out near the Danube has two: Franz Leh\u00e1r and Emanuel Schikaneder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mini-palais dating back to 1737<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Schikaneder&#8217;s residence in the early 1800s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And Franz Leh\u00e1r&#8217;s in the 1930s and 1940s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Book a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/concerts-opera-vienna-tickets-l206741\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_Lehar\" rel=\"sponsored\">concert experience<\/a>* for your Vienna trip<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/franz-lehar\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"39818\">Leh\u00e1r in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Composers and impresarios<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/leharschloessel1.jpg\" alt=\"Lehar Schl\u00f6ssel\" class=\"wp-image-49309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/leharschloessel1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/leharschloessel1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(A small villa in the suburbs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vienna has swallowed up many rural regions and settlements over the years. One is Nu\u00dfdorf, still best known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/heuriger\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30836\">wine taverns<\/a> and small town atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, Nu\u00dfdorf would have made a convenient summer retreat for those Viennese wealthy enough to own a second home in the country or wishing to retire to somewhere quieter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leh\u00e1r-Schikaneder-Schl\u00f6ssel certainly served that function. Though life outside the city walls wasn&#8217;t always about sultry evenings and cool glasses of wine. Napoleon&#8217;s troops passed this way and allegedly plundered the residence in 1809.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/leharschloessel.jpg\" alt=\"Front of the Lehar Schl\u00f6ssel\" class=\"wp-image-48043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/leharschloessel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/leharschloessel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The front entrance with three commemorative plaques)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The property has existed for centuries, but the current building dates back to 1737 (though it went through subsequent redesigns by later owners).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those owners was Emanuel Schikaneder, who lived in this baroque mini-palais on and off in the early 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schikaneder left a lasting impression on world culture through his association with Mozart. He wrote the libretto to <em>The Magic Flute<\/em>, for example, and played the role of Papageno himself. He also founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/opera\/theater-wien\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18961\">Theater an der Wien<\/a>, now one of Vienna&#8217;s three major opera houses.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lehar1906.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man with a mustache in 1906\" class=\"wp-image-87488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lehar1906.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lehar1906-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Leh\u00e1r bought the house in 1932; Photograph by Ludwig Gutmann from 1906; Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 103217\/3; excerpt reproduced with permission under the terms of the CC0 licence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Schikaneder-Schl\u00f6ssel, as the house became known, eventually ended up in the hands of a Mr Widitz-Ward (?) from America, who sold it to the composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/franz-lehar\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"39818\">Franz Leh\u00e1r<\/a> toward the end of 1932 for the tidy sum of 120,000 Schilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so the Schikaneder-Schl\u00f6ssel became the Leh\u00e1r-Schl\u00f6ssel. After Leh\u00e1r&#8217;s death, the property passed to his brother, Anton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Ad:<\/em><br><\/div><div data-tiqets-widget=\"discovery\" data-cards-layout=\"horizontal\" data-content-type=\"product\" data-content-ids=\"1008299,1029872\" data-partner=\"visitingvienna\" data-tq-campaign=\"DA_Concerts1\"><\/div><script defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/widgets.tiqets.com\/loader.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Stand outside the building today and three commemorative plaques mark the historical associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Anton Leh\u00e1r himself erected the plaque to his brother. It bears an inscription I struggle to translate, but seems to indicate how Leh\u00e1r&#8217;s mastery of music lets us forget our sorrows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. A later addition was a plaque commemorating Schikaneder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. The most recent plaque honours the singer and actor, Richard Tauber, a close friend of Franz Leh\u00e1r. He married the English actress Diana Napier in 1936 in London, though the church ceremony apparently took place in the chapel of the Leh\u00e1r-Schl\u00f6ssel<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/leharplaqueschloessel.jpg\" alt=\"Franz Leh\u00e1r commemorative plaque\" class=\"wp-image-49308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/leharplaqueschloessel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/leharplaqueschloessel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The Leh\u00e1r plaque)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The house also practically counts as a riverside location, since the mighty Danube is just over 100m away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/donaukanal\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"34106\">Donaukanal<\/a> channel breaks off from the main river and wends its way to the edge of the old town before rejoining the Danube on the other side of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re just a short walk from the Schemerlbr\u00fccke, for example: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/otto-wagner-in-vienna\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4917\">Otto Wagner<\/a>, one of the fathers of modern architecture, designed this bridge and weir.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/schemerlbridge.jpg\" alt=\"The Schemerlbr\u00fccke\" class=\"wp-image-47951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/schemerlbridge.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/schemerlbridge-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Otto Wagner&#8217;s Schemerlbr\u00fccke bridge)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The area enjoys other musical connections. For example, house no.8 on the same road carries a plaque commemorating the composer Carl Mill\u00f6cker. His father was born there, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head south from the Leh\u00e1r-Schl\u00f6ssel and you find yourself in Grinzing, which enjoys fame for its wine taverns and Beethoven locations. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/beethoven-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6063\">Beethoven Museum<\/a>, for example, is a 20 minute walk away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the Schl\u00f6ssel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Subway: take the U4 line to Heiligenstadt and walk up or cross through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/karl-marx-hof\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"39713\">Karl-Marx-Hof<\/a> to Heiligenst\u00e4dter Stra\u00dfe and catch the D tram to Nu\u00dfdorf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tram\/bus: take the D tram (which leaves from, for example, Schottentor in the centre) to the Nu\u00dfdorf stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Hackhofergasse 18, 1190 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ssCYUXFXixdepy1GiglxehLZHuFd3PSh\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vienna has plenty of residences with a musical connection. One house out near the Danube has two: Franz Leh\u00e1r and Emanuel Schikaneder. Composers and impresarios (A small villa in the suburbs) Vienna has swallowed up many rural regions and settlements over the years. 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