Palais Lieben-Auspitz
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Palais Lieben-Auspitz is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, located in the city's Innere Stadt
Innere Stadt
The Innere Stadt is the 1st municipal District of Vienna . The Innere Stadt is the old town of Vienna. Until the city boundaries were expanded in 1850, the Innere Stadt was congruent with the city of Vienna...

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Originally built for the Auspitz
Auspitz
- Family name :* Heinrich Auspitz , a Jewish Moravian-Austrian dermatologist** Auspitz's sign, named after Heinrich Auspitz...

 family in the late 19th century, later the Lieben
Lieben
Lieben may refer to:* Libeň, Prague* Adolf Lieben, Austrian Jewish chemist* Robert von Lieben, Austrian Jewish physicist* Palais Lieben-Auspitz, Vienna...

 family also lived there. Unlike traditional, baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 noble
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...

 palaces in Vienna, the Palais Lieben-Auspitz was built in the late 19th century and is therefore called a Ringstraßenpalais. It is up to five storeys high and built in the neo-baroque
Neo-baroque
The Baroque Revival or Neo-baroque was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture which displays important aspects of Baroque style, but is not of the Baroque period proper—i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries.Some examples of Neo-baroque architecture:*...

 style typical of its time.

The palace housed the Salon of Berta Zuckerkandl
Salon of Berta Zuckerkandl
The Salon of Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps existed in Vienna from the end of the 19th Century until 1938. It was located in her Viennese residence in the Palais Lieben-Auspitz on the Ringstraße1....

, a meeting place for intellectuals and artists. Located on the street level is the Café Landtmann.
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