Stock exchanges, mints, banks
Duration:
2 hours
Renowned architects,
modern technology, imposing buildings – discover the architecture of money.
Whether monumental and historic or studded with rivets and functionalist in style, bank and stock exchange buildings were designed to convey stability and security. However, the visual language of architecture could prevent neither ‘Black Friday’ nor ‘Black Thursday’ in 1873 and 1929. Mass bankruptcies and suicides were the result.
From the Post Office Savings Bank to the National Bank, from Stubenring to Schottenring, across the city, ‘Palaces of Money’ tell a vivid story of economic history.
Along the way, you will also learn about Mint Master Schlom, the city’s first documented Jew; the Rothschild family, one of the most powerful banking dynasties and financiers of the state budget; a bank for small savers that used post offices as payment points; and the National Bank, one of the oldest central banks in the world.
