Special Tour Vienna 1938 to 1955: Four in a Jeep

From the Anschluss to the State Treaty

Seventeen years that Vienna has never quite let go of. In March 1938 hundreds of thousands cheered on Heldenplatz; a few streets away persecution began for their Jewish neighbours. Then war, bombs, flak towers that still stand in the parks. In April 1945 the Red Army arrived, in summer the Americans, British and French, and for ten years four military policemen rode together in a jeep through a divided city. In those years Carol Reed shot “The Third Man”: the Ferris wheel, the sewers, Am Hof, the zither in the coffeehouse. We walk the sites, tell of the black market and smuggling, of reconstruction and of 15 May 1955, when Leopold Figl held up the State Treaty from the Belvedere balcony.

The Third Man runs through the whole route. Those who want to go deeper finish on Saturday at the Third Man Museum in the Pressgasse, open on that day only.

Itinerary

From Heldenplatz via Minoritenplatz and Am Hof (film locations, the Third Man doorway) to Morzinplatz, the former Gestapo headquarters, on to Schwedenplatz and the Danube Canal with a view of the Ferris wheel. With three hours, additionally the flak tower in Esterházypark, ending in the Pressgasse at the museum; alternatively ending at the Belvedere with the State Treaty balcony.

What it costs

Guide fee € 350 per tour (up to 3 hrs) or € 445 (up to 4 hrs with the museum). Option Third Man Museum: admission per person, confirmed with your request.

Included: private Austria Guide
Excluded: Third Man Museum admission, Ferris wheel ride (option), coffeehouse

Extensions

Ferris wheel ride, Café Mozart (film location) to finish, combination with JEWISH Vienna as a half day. In the evening we show the Third Man locations by lantern light: Vienna by Night.

All prices net, valid for 2026. Admissions and tastings are set by the respective venues and may change at short notice. You select the add-ons in the booking request; the total is calculated there automatically.