The Burggarten - roughly translated as "imperial garden" - is a park near the Hofburg, the imperial castle. Its old trees shelter, among other memorials, the statue of Kaiser Franz Joseph, the last long-serving monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. That is its mood, too... |
Old trees have seen a lot |
Eternalized Serfdom |
Incognoscenti on the Bench |
To: Wienerlieder Collection
(Translations of traditional Austrian songs)
To: Poem Translations
(Englisch zu Deutsch, German to English;
from Anonymous and Arnold to Yeats and Zweig)
First posted: September 2003
Last updated: February 2007
All pictures and text © Walter A. Aue, 2003, 2007
"Vienna Tourist" visitors (not visits) since fall 2003