Treasure of St. Stephen's Cathedral
In Treasure of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the collections once held within Vienna’s Roman Catholic seat of the Archbishop of Vienna—Josef Grünwidl—were lost when a fire destroyed them. The cathedral complex at Stephansdom, however, reaches back much further: it was founded in 1137 following the Treaty of Mautern, which referred to Vienna as a *civitas* for the first time. A parish church on the same site was consecrated in 1147, and the Romanesque-and-Gothic form seen today was largely initiated by Duke Rudolf IV (1339–1365). Towering to 136.44 metres, St. Stephen’s Cathedral has also become recognizable for its multi-coloured tile roof and for its role in Habsburg and Austrian history—part of why the “Historic Centre of Vienna” was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2001. Even the cathedral’s interior work is steeped in its own measure of endurance: there are 256 stairs from the top to the bottom.
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