Saint Stephen's Cathedral
In Saint Stephen’s Cathedral—German: Stephansdom—Vienna once kept its mother church for the Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna, and it served as the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Josef Grünwidl. The cathedral’s origins reach back to 1137, when Bishop of Passau Reginmar and Margrave Leopold IV signed the Treaty of Mautern, a milestone that first referred to Vienna as a *civitas* and helped set the ground for a new parish church on this site. What you associate with the skyline today—the Romanesque-and-Gothic form shaped largely from the 14th century under Duke Rudolf IV (1339–1365)—included a 136.44-metre spire and a multicoloured tile roof. Its importance went beyond architecture: the cathedral is counted among the Historic Centre of Vienna, inscribed by UNESCO in 2001. …
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