Wiener Börse

The old Vienna Stock Exchange building on the Schottenring, its red brick and pale stone seen from the Börseplatz in 2017. Theophil von Hansen designed it, and it was inaugurated in 1877, a palace for an exchange that Empress Maria Theresa had founded back in 1771. The walls hide a loss: a fire on April 13, 1956 burned out the interior, including the great trading hall where brokers had dealt in person, and it reopened in a modern style in 1959. The cash market moved onto computers from 1996, and in 1998 the exchange left the building altogether.