{"id":4279,"date":"2016-10-20T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:34:46","slug":"schuberts-birthplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/schuberts-birthplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Schubert&#8217;s birthplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/schubert_geburthaus_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Schubert Geburtshaus plaque\" class=\"wp-image-4285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/schubert_geburthaus_thumb.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/schubert_geburthaus_thumb-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On January 31st, 1797, little Franz Schubert popped into the world at his family&#8217;s home in a small village just outside Vienna. The house is still there &#8211; firmly inside the city limits now &#8211; and features the <em>Schubert Geburtshaus<\/em> museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Closed temporarily from Mar 2, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reopening 2028 (?) with a new exhibition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Small, apartment-sized museum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various paraphernalia around Schubert&#8217;s life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also has an exhibition of paintings by Adalbert Stifter<\/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_Schubert\" rel=\"sponsored\">concert experience<\/a>* for Vienna<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/schubert-in-vienna\/\">Schubert locations in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/famous-people\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1666\">Famous composers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside Schubert&#8217;s birthplace<\/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\/04\/schubertbirth.jpg\" alt=\"Schubert's birthplace\" class=\"wp-image-44901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/schubertbirth.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/schubertbirth-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\">(Schubert&#8217;s home until he was four)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A genius was born that day. And while other babies scream, Schubert presumably uttered more of a bravo aria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entrance to the house that witnessed the event takes you into a lovely gravel courtyard surrounded by wooden balconies, immediately throwing you back to late 18th-century Vienna. Stone stairs then lead up to a small museum dedicated to Schubert and run by the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/wien-museum\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"26812\">Wien Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as a home for the family, this building also provided premises for the school run by Schubert&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colour me impressed that it all survives, given the real estate value of the land with its location adjacent to the historical city centre.<\/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\/05\/schubertportrait.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Schubert by the Wien Museum\" class=\"wp-image-46001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/schubertportrait.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/schubertportrait-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\">(Wilhelm August Rieder&#8217;s 1875 portrait of Franz Schubert, spectacles included; Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 49293, excerpt reproduced under the terms of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY 4.0 license<\/a>; photo: Birgit und Peter Kainz, Wien Museum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rooms inside the museum preserve the general 18th-century feeling with their bare wooden floors and low ceilings with whitewashed walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large poster provides background information in English, but all display labels were in German on my visit: you may have to guess your way around the various paraphernalia drawn from his life and works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The various portraits of Schubert on display all feature the famous round spectacles. And, lo, the very first room contains a pair he once wore. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/schubertbirthplace1899.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of Schubert's early home\" class=\"wp-image-77247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/schubertbirthplace1899.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/schubertbirthplace1899-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Image of the house on a postcard from around 1899. Printed by Albert Berger (Kunstanstalt) and drawn by Franz Kopallik; Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 58891\/933; excerpt reproduced with permission under the terms of the CC0 licence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Music stations where you can sit and listen to some of his compositions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>School reports from 1809 and 1812, as well as his exam results from 1814. The writing is hard to read but, as far as I could tell, there were an awful lot of &#8220;sehr gut&#8221; grades (the top grade possible in the Austrian school system). But then his father was a teacher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1st edition sheet music for his famous <em>Erlk\u00f6nig <\/em>song, as well as originals and copies of various other compositions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A piano owned by his brother Ignaz, so you would imagine Schubert once induced its keys to produce the sounds that would later become his compositions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/schubertgeburthausexhibitionview.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition view inside Schubert's birthplace\" class=\"wp-image-56521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/schubertgeburthausexhibitionview.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/schubertgeburthausexhibitionview-300x200.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\">(Exhibition view; press photo by Lisa Rastl and \u00a9 Wien Museum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spartan layout means you can get round very quickly: it really just gives you a taste of the life and times of the man without pretending to any degree of comprehensiveness. Consider it more memorial than museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But those spectacles are jolly cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tickets &amp; visitor tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of writing, a standard adult ticket for the Geburtshaus costs \u20ac5 on the door. Check the website (see below) for opening days during the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that the museum closed on March 2nd, 2026 for a long period of refurbishment and a redesign of the exhibition. A reopening in 2028 is expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The ticket office has a small selection of items for sale: postcards, posters, CDs, pencils and a handful of books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As everything retains its original flavour, I had some difficulty working out which doors to use (and how). Or maybe I&#8217;m getting old. Fortunately a kind attendant helped point the way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You may find music by Schubert features in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/classical-concert\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5359\">light classical concerts<\/a> that take place most evenings in historical palais buildings, churches and similar across Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One street down from the Geburtshaus is a building at S\u00e4ulengasse 3 that now houses the aptly-named Schubert Garage (a car repair shop). The composer moved there at an early age and went on to write symphonies 2 through 5 on the premises. A plaque commemorates the connection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Another nearby location is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/schubertkirche\/\">Schubertkirche<\/a> church, where he was christened and regularly performed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The various musician locations managed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/wien-museum\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"26812\">Wien Museum<\/a> also include the apartment where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/schuberts-sterbewohnung\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4270\">Schubert died<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the Geburtshaus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Take tram line 37 or 38 from the big, central Schottentor station to the Canisiusgasse stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can reach Schottentor on the U2 subway line, for example, or using the trams that skirt the old town (lines 1, D, 71).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Nu\u00dfdorfer Stra\u00dfe 54, 1090 Vienna | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wienmuseum.at\/schubert_geburtshaus\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1R9uU3lwawlnzkfdkQ56UCrHz5y4\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31st, 1797, little Franz Schubert popped into the world at his family&#8217;s home in a small village just outside Vienna. 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