Cycling through Vienna's beautiful Sünnhof after sunrise

Sünnhof, a typical Biedermeier complex with an elongated inner courtyard located in the middle of the Landstrasse suburb. In 1837, the lawyer and owner of the house "Zum Kopf an der Landstrasse", Carl Sünn, had a connection established to the house on Ungargasse, built in 1823. The plot, which was only around 17 meters narrow and around 170 meters long, was gradually built on both sides inwards, so that around 1850 an alley-like paved courtyard, around 5 meters wide and almost 160 meters long, was developed in the middle. The narrowness of which was emphasized was due to the three to four-storey buildings.
Craftsmen (shoemakers, tailors, glaziers, carpenters, stonemasons, locksmiths, frame makers, basket weavers, flower arrangers, hairdressers) who lived on the floors above worked in the vaults at ground level; one can therefore speak of an early “commercial yard”. Owned by the Sünn family in the middle of the 19th century.

The fundamental renovation carried out between 1981 and 1984 saved the Sünnhof from decay while simultaneously revitalizing it. The “Hotel Biedermeier im Sünnhof” is located in the Sünnhof complex.