Neidhart Frescoes

Discover Vienna's long-lost frescoes for yourself and learn about the food and fashion of medieval Austria. 

Visit Neidhart Frescoes with Go City® 

• With us, there are no entry fees on the day – all you've got to do is show your pass.
• View medieval wall paintings based on the songs of Neidhart. 
• Self-guided maps and audio guides available in English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and French.

Depicting scenes from the music of well-known medieval bard Neidhart, the Festsaal collection are the oldest surviving secular murals in Vienna.

Created in 1407, the frescoes were painted as ornate decorations for a wealthy cloth merchant in his private dance and banquet hall. They weren't seen in modern Vienna however, until 1979 when a restoration project of the building in Tuchlauben 19 discovered them underneath the plasterboard walls. 

Illustrating the songs of Neidhart, the paintings show the four seasons and are often thought of as good reflections of life in the medieval period. They tell tales of love, feasts and tension between different groups through a period of social change. 

As well as the murals, Neidhart Festsaal is now home to a permanent exhibition about everyday life in medieval Vienna. Music, dance, fashion and food form a central focus of the exhibition as well as the history of the building itself and the process of restoring the paintings.

Getting in: just show your pass at reception and you're in.

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For more information please see the Neidhart Frescoes website.