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new section! Geography and Layout
Toward the end of the Austrian empire, new currents in art centered in Vienna showed undercurrents of unease and dread. In painting, the [[Expressionist]] works of [[Egon Schiele]] and [[Gustav Klimt]] seemed to foreshadow the city's decline. In Music, the Second Viennese School comprising [[Arnold Schoenberg]], [[Alban Berg]], and [[Anton von Webern]] stretched tonal dissolution and thematic complexity all the way past its breaking point, and after the First World War tried to put it back together again under new rules, in much the same way that Vienna was searching for her relevance after the fall of the empire.
Toward the end of the Austrian empire, new currents in art centered in Vienna showed undercurrents of unease and dread. In painting, the [[Expressionist]] works of [[Egon Schiele]] and [[Gustav Klimt]] seemed to foreshadow the city's decline. In Music, the Second Viennese School comprising [[Arnold Schoenberg]], [[Alban Berg]], and [[Anton von Webern]] stretched tonal dissolution and thematic complexity all the way past its breaking point, and after the First World War tried to put it back together again under new rules, in much the same way that Vienna was searching for her relevance after the fall of the empire.
==Geography and Layout==
Vienna is located east of the Austrian [[Alps]], in the Vienna Basin, and immediately to the west of the city lie the Vienna Woods, which were immortalized in waltz form by Johann Strauss Jr. in ''Tales from the Vienna Woods''. The Danube and Danube canal run northwest to southeast through the city.
The old city, which was walled until the second half of the 19th-century is in a circular shape, with St. Stephen's Cathedral marking the precise center of the circle. It is today known as the first of 23 municipal districts. The other 22 districts also have long histories as suburbs or villages, and each has a distinct architectural flavor. For example, the third district, just east of the city center, is named "Landstrasse," or "Country Road," and accordingly contains many 18th and 19th-century buildings which were country estates, including the house on Ungargasse where Beethoven finished his 9th symphony. As another example, the second district, Leopoldstadt, was a Jewish ghetto from the early 17th-century through the [[WWII|second world war]], and thus has a strikingly different style of architecture.
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