1870Vienna
Staatsbahnhof under construction, 13 March 1870
Hermann Voigtländer
Street photograph
1870·Vienna
Staatsbahnhof under construction, 13 March 1870
Hermann Voigtländer
Street photograph · Replaced
What this plate shows
The departure hall of the Staatsbahnhof (later Ostbahnhof) as a building site, dated 13 March 1870. Scaffolding, winter ground, a camera on a construction job. Old World photography of making, not a city overview.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Staatsbahnhof (later Ostbahnhof)
- Region
- Europe
- Present status
- Replaced — The hall photographed on 13 March 1870 did not survive the twentieth century. War damage, demolition, and a later station occupy the site. Status is replaced — a later documented sequence, not visible in this exposure.
- Source
- Wien Museum; scan published in Blickfänge einer Reise nach Wien — Fotografien 1860–1910.
- License
- Public domain.
Collections where this plate appears
- 02Old World photographyStreet scenes, demolition, construction, rooftops, a dome, a completed boulevard. The camera on the ground or on a known high point — not a lithograph pretending to be a lens.
- 05Monumental architecturePeriod photographs of named structures. Documented identification first. Present status is a later fact recorded beside the plate — surviving, altered, burned, demolished, reconstructed, replaced — not a verdict the image is asked to prove.