About this place
Located at Schottenring 7, this modern building stands on the site of the former Sühnhaus (Atonement House). It was built directly over the ashes of the catastrophic Ringtheater fire of 1881, which killed hundreds of people in a horrific blaze. Emperor Franz Joseph commissioned the residential building as a gesture of expiation. Freud moved here in 1886 as a newlywed with his wife Martha. It was here that he struggled to build a private practice in a building that superstitious Viennese deeply avoided due to its grim, ghostly history.
Key facts
- 384 deaths — Officially recorded in the catastrophic Ringtheater fire on this exact site
- 1886 year — A young Sigmund Freud moved into the newly built Sühnhaus
- 5 years — The Freud family lived and struggled at this address before moving
📍 Schottenring 7-9, 1010, Wien