3-053-688 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in Vienna: the Aspern Bridge, 1873. 'We now present [an illustration] of the Aspernbrücke, the bridge named after the battle-field of Aspern, not far from Wagram in the Marzfeld, on the other side of the Danube, where a conflict took place, in the wars of the first Napoleon, between the French and Austrian armies. This bridge stands over the Danube canal, an artificial arm of the Danube, which separates the inner or central town of Vienna from the suburb of Leopoldstadt; at the inner city end it abuts on the Franz Josef's Quay, at the extremity of the Stuben-Ring, one of the series of Boulevards which form, with the Quay above-named, a complete belt, two or three miles in circumference, around the inner city. There are statues on the bridge, of no great merit, by the sculptor Melnitzky. We must here commend to English tourists, who may intend to visit the Austrian capital during the Exhibition of this year, a little "Handy-book to Vienna," by Bucher and Weiss, which Mr. Griffin has translated from the German; it is published at Vienna by Messrs. Faesy and Frick, and by Messrs. Longman and Co. in London. The English is rather queer, but the information seems to be correct and well arranged'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.