Building Stone Secrets From Vienna, Austria: Geology Explained
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2024
- Journey to beautiful Vienna, Austria with geology professor Shawn Willsey for a glance at the geology revealed in various building stone in the city. GPS location: 48.20822, 16.36665
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Very interesting, Shawn. Thank-you. I wonder how many of those buildings were rebuilt after WW2?
Thank you ! It's clear to me that everyone needs to take a geologist on vacation with them. You can take a geologist on vacation but you can't take the geology out of the vacation. 😄
Shawn Willsey, geologist, always on duty!
When ever I will pass round this corner, I will think of you and your explanations! Greetings from Vienna 🎉
Hi from Canada! Sooo beautiful there!!
You live among some beautiful old architecture! So cool to know so many people from around the world that have found Shawn’s CZcams page…I only found it because of the Iceland Volcano but seems like my head is always in rocks now. And amazingly I live in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado…I always wanted to live here and got to move here in retirement a few years ago…
@@StarBitt97 I've always been enthralled with the Rockies, but the longer I've lived on the West Coast the more I've fallen in love with the mountains _here,_ and the geologic forces that created them -- much of which is still occurring as we speak. The one thing about where _you_ live is you'll never have to worry much about earthquakes and volcanoes; the Rockies are essentially "dead" geologically, so you at least don't have to look over your shoulder at what might be around the corner. I sit between Mt Hood, Mt St Helens and the Cascadia Subduction Zone; so a LOT going on here potentially. We spend a good portion of our consciousness waiting for the other shoe to drop....
Hello from Atlanta!
I believe the Bank building is the Looshaus. Very famous radical , modernist building with very little of the ornamentation of the 19th century. The Wikipedia article suggests that the facade is very high grade metamorphosed marble from the Greek island of Euboea where asbestos is also mined which suggests an ultra basic complex.
I will never take a ‘stone’ building for granted again. I will see its beauty! The stone on the buildings is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.
Don't you mean you'll never take a stone building for granite? ≽ܫ≼
@@chrismusix5669 🤣 I wish I’d thought of that!
Love it! Geologist me was stopping to scrutinize the fantastic walls in Salzburg, when we visited Mozart’s home. 😃 Austrians know how to decorate with intriguing rocks!
Random road cuts... city edition. Thank you for a city tour of Cultured geology.
As Vienna was the center of the Austrian Hungarian empire, this town was very wealthy and could afford to import building materials from just about anywhere in the world. Very likely the marbles are from Italy.
My two favorites are the migmatite and the rapakivi granite. Thanks for taking the time out from your vacation to show these cool rocks!
Vienna is gorgeous I loved it there
It’s about time National Geographic gave you a show
Geologists on holiday…. “Whoo hoo! Let’s do geology 🤩”
And here I thought I was the only person who pays attention to rocks when I am someplace new. Now I know I am not alone. Beautiful!
Shawn: One day ago I commented that one of my favorite videos of yours was the one in which you analyze architectural stone panels in Boise. And here is a similar video, from Vienna!! Fantastic! My family has always kidded me about having to stop (again!) to look at geology in the wild or in architectural stonework. Now I know it’s not just me! Haha. Thanks for the camaraderie and validation that it really is fascinating! 😂 (My grown daughter now appreciates geology too).
Love this. Looking at the rocks in the big city was calming for me.
Me too. Too hectic.
Hei Shawn, and greetings from Finland. I've been your happy, but so far silent follower for nearly six months. Your observation of the Rapakivi granite on the wall of a jeweler's shop in Vienna made me send this comment ;-) Thank you very much for all of your interesting and informative videos in the YT. Since my retirement nearly 6 months ago, your videos have given me opportunities to learn more about geology and vulcanology. My background is in hydrochemistry, but luckily had always constant connections also to geology and other hydro- and geosciences. All the best to you and yours 💕
Lovely! I was in Vienna last year for a Klimt exhibition, but I do remember that striking facade on the bank. Thank you!
I'm so sorry, Cardinal, but I was only testing for the presence of calcium... Thanks for sharing Shawn! (You may now retrieve your sample hammer from bank security...)
Congratulations on hitting 103 thousand subscribers. This video is very interesting on Vienna articitature.
You bring a completely different perspective to traveling in Europe! So many cool stones. Great walk around. The cathedral is just amazing!
Thanks, Shawn!!
Hi Shawn. Thanks for this tour. I found the germanic people were helpful and generally very
interested in the architecture of the buildings they work in.
I'm sure that if you asked inside the Raiffeisen Bank the staff could tell you (or get out a leaflet) about where the quarry was located and maybe more.
The Federal Kunst Museum in Bonn features large art murals made out of selections of european rocks.
Wonderful video. I like to think that in big cities, humans have created their own stone canyons to live in.
Being on vacation in Vienna myself right now, this has certainly given me a whole new way of looking at my surroundings :)
I did this on a visit to London loads of different rocks and marbles.. then we went to the natural history museum… rock paradise 😊
Well I learnt something new, geologists don’t have ‘off’ switches. Fabulous video!
I was on a fascinating tour of the building stones in Norwich in about 1973 with my geochemistry lecturer - this location is significant as there is no local stone used for building apart from flint. One rock frequently used as a facing stone was Larvikite and I believe this is the rock shown at 1:51. Within the geology fraternity this rock was known as “pubfrontite” as it was so frequently seen as the facing stone on public houses.
A couple of years ago, there was a High School Project in Downtown Calgary Alberta that was a walking tour of the Lobbies of the Main Highrise Office Buildings. Local Sandstone (Paskapoo) along with Marble and Granites.
Went by those buildings many times and rarely even thought about which stones the materials visible on them may be, thanks for analyzing them! :)
What a fascinating way to look at the world - looking at buildings rather than road cuts. I never realized how much an educated eye can see. Thank you.
Someone: Do you seed that building over there? its really old, actually from the 14th century. Shawn: Hold my beer
I'm completely dazzled and gobsmacked by the beauty of the rock used in those buildings. I've never seen anything like it. Wow..... And they all have a story. Thanks for sharing them.
Amazing how many different types of rock there are. So beautiful regardless of whether or not they're polished. Incredible. Thanks for sharing with us Shawn!
Thank for the tour, Shae ! I’ll never look at a building with the indifference I used to - there truly is a lot to see in the building stone material. My eyes have been opened!
I recognize that square from "The Third Man." Cue in the zither!
Yes, a lot of that movie was filmed here in Vienna...
The next time I walk through the 1st district of Vienna, I will definitely look at the buildings differently.
Thanks for the stroll through Vienna. They’re beautiful stones. I really like the rapakivi granite.
I love this! Vienna looks lovely. The architecture is amazing and the geology was a bonus. Thanks Shawn!
Shawn is the only person I know who can look at a building and tell you its geological history
Fascinating tour Shawn: I shall look ancient buildings through a completely different lens now, appreciating not only the beautiful architecture but also the geology. Thank you 👍😀
Thanks for the vicarious travels to Vienna. What a fun way to explore an old town; and to see the variety of building stones. .
We are going to Vienna in September and will be looking out for rocks used in the buildings now as well as all the tourist attractions 👍🏼. Thank you very interesting 😊
this puts architecture into a different light..appreciation of the building materials in a different way...very kewl
Thanks, Shawn, for showing-off these glorious facades, these showpieces of Earth-guts. Utterly magnificent-
I have done a couple of walks round the facing stones of towns in the northwest of England. We got lots of funny looks! But there were so many interesting rocks used as decoration. And we saw the rapakivi granite too.
Living in Edinburgh, I often look at the building stones. Just about every house and building built until 1920s are stone, mostly sandstones at the front and sides and random volcanic and sedimentary rocks at the back. Old bank buildings always seem to be polished volcanic stone.
Thank you so much for the tour ❤
Wow - amazing how you give a different perspective to geology from a city centre. The bank fascade is absolutely stunning and one needs to appreciate the workmanship. Many thanks Professor.
Really pleased to see this video! I'm a retired English archaeologist and I love our Medieval cathedrals and abbeys. And I've always been interested in our building stones, both for the big Medieval churches and for our vernacular buildings of every date.
Very broadly speaking, most of our best building stones are Jurassic limestones, often oolitic, with slightly less good Carboniferous and Permo-Trias (red desert) sandstones used in the North and West beyond the easy transport range of the Jurassic. And vernacular buildings use a much wider range of stones - whatever was local and of halfway decent quality. And there is a pretty good literature on the subject, starting with the work of Alec Clifton-Taylor in the 1960s and 70s.
I actually learned something about travertine today thank you.
The intrusive igneous rock on the lower part of the first building looks to me like a light coloured larvikite. It is quarried in Larvik, Norway and surrounding regions, where I grew up. Thanks for another great video and all your lovely content!
Kudos. No way I could walk down a busy street, in a foreign country talking and taping
Wooohooo! Was looking forward to this video! Thank you!
First Boise, now Vienna. Another adventure in urban geology. Thanks Shawn. Get ready for jet lag when you return. Just got back from Normandy on Sunday and I'm surprised the jet lag is lingering into day 3.
No lag. This trip was a few weeks ago. Just uploading now.
Some quarries date back to the Roman times. Lived in and near Vienna for 50+ years now. Always loved stones, in natural surroundings or in buildings. Wonderful you take an interest in Europe, too. I have been to some of the awesome places in US, too. Like Bad lands, Yellowstone, Death Valley (walked down and up), Bryce Canon, Death Valley to name a few on a 6 weeks travel. Amazing you find the time, to "care about" the whole world. Wish you many further exiting travels.
Absolutely fascinating. It would never have occurred to me to look at architecture this way. Thanks for the new perspective.
I'll do a geology field day next time I go to old Paris or Vienna. Thanks for opening up a whole new world of urban exploration.
What a great idea-to examine the stones in the building materials. Love it.
That was so interesting! Thanks Shawn. I remember when I lived in the Los Angeles area a lot of buildings had these beautiful polished stone facades and interiors. One place that really stands out to me is in Glendale at the corner of Glendale Ave and Broadway. On the northeast corner is a medical building and inside the entrance to the elevators is this stunning pink rock. (After this video, I realize that not of these stones are marble! I always thought they were!) I was hoping that if the building ever was torn down I could get those slabs. Thanks again Shawn!
That is Cipollino marble from Euboa, Greece on the Loos Haus (your first stop) according to Wikipedia. It was a loooong time ago that I was in Vienna for a summer art and architecture program, and had to do a short presentation on this very building. I remember thinking then that maybe Adolf Loos, the architect, felt like an exotic patterned marble was needed so that people would not think the relatively simple facade was to cut building costs rather than to display cutting edge modernism.
Yes, the significance of the Looshaus cannot be overemphasized. It is the first building in the Centre of Vienna around 1910, which had no ornaments. It is the role model for "form follows function" . Loos stated, that ornaments are crime, and beauty and quality comes from the material. Therefore he spent a lot of time finding the right materials for his architecture and interiors. If you have a chance you should also see the inside.
it was called "the eyes without eyebrows"
Always good with a video Shawn and your deeper dive into Architecture. This is where the arts and sciences are unified.
1:57 the bank security guard eyes up the dude “looking at the rocks” under the very expensive shop window full of expensive watches 🤣
Oh, I thought gneiss. The only other place that I have seen migmatite is in the Wind River Range, WY.
Some glaciers up there.
One was so melted that we had trouble finding a flat spot to camp and all night we heard rocks rolling down. There was no danger where we were.
Oh gosh, another memory: as we were crossing a glacier I saw a deer that had fallen into a cravas(sp).
Awesome to see these very old, well made buildings which look just as new as when they were built!
Some are from the 1500s they sure dont make them like they used too! And will prob never again.
Oh your poor wife ha ha on vacation and you cant resist the temptation to explore the hills, rocks and streets, cant blame you. These are exceptional examples.
You have a very great wife who understands your passion! Doesnt get any better than that. 😊
Was hoping to see some of your trip and the stone. Must be really old stone in Europe (I don't know). Facinating tour. Thanks, Shawn! Really appreciate it.😃
I was blown away with the euro random road cut, and then this!!! Im nearly in geological overload. An amazing city.
😅walking around feeling up the buildings in Vienna . Thank you for the tour.
The buildings are beautiful. I don’t often think of looking at the buildings. I was a tour guide for the Idaho Capitol and the Supreme Court back in the Girl Scout days (oh around 55 years ago). I had forgotten my spiel regarding the scagliola and Idaho travertine. I will have to revisit and pay attention.
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I am reading the book but hadn’t seen the video. 👍🏻👍🏻
Visited Vienna back in the 90’s and turned out to be my favorite European city, sort of a more calm Paris.
Thank you @shawnwillsey for this very nice session of urban geology in Vienna, I love it! And I recognized the rapakivi granite, from Finland, from your previous Boise video, so proud of myself, awesome! ;) You are a great teacher :)
Never heard of travertine or the Finnish granite. Wow, got to love those rocks Shawn.
I am really pleased that you admitted that you couldn't positively identify some of the building rocks. There are many times that I have failed to identify samples of rocks and that caused me to doubt that I knew all that much about lithology. It is somehow --- comforting --- to see that even a professor of geology sometimes has a similar hard time identifying a rock type.
Ha, ha, and I thought I was the only one --- strange enough --- to puzzle out the stones the buildings I encounter are made of.
Beautiful architecture and the rock types are so interesting! Would love to have a countertop made out of that first migmatite! They're all beautiful though. Totally unrelated question... did you get to the Spanish Riding School to see the Lipizzan horses while you were in Vienna?
No. It was a very brief trip.
@@shawnwillsey Maybe next time then!
Thank you for a great, short, interesting video! Living close to Vienna and knowing the two main quarries that have delivered a lot of the building material to the capital over the centuries, this was very interesting to see. Thank you!
Been a few years since I was in Vienna! Beautiful city.
Great idea. Real imagination!
Welcome in Austria!
I always look your videos. From now on I will have an other look on my town, I am living in Salzburg with also many old buildings made of different stones. Thank you for this interesting video. Have a good trip and enjoy your holidays.
Love learning random facts about my city from tourists. Always looking at things that wouldn't stand out to me naturally.
Super interesting and helpful! I have often wondered about beautiful stone buildings like this and how they came to be :)
So Cool. Thanks.
The building you started at on Michaelerplatz is one of the highlights of Vienna's architectural history - it was designed by Adolf Loos, one of the most prominent architects and designers of the famed Secession art movement around 1900. I remember vaguely that Loos imported stone slabs from Greece for the decoration of the ground floor. St Stephen's Cathedral was almost entirely built from stone quarried near Vienna in the Leithagebirge, a small hill range to the south of Vienna near Neusiedlersee, mostly consisting of calcareous sandstone. Quarries in that region are still used to quarry the materials for the ongoing necessary (sometimes extensive) repairs.
Fantastic Buildings, Bet you didnt think you would like shopping so much in Vienna. Thanks for sharing,
Super interesting. Thanks for sharing. Glad your holiday was good.
Thx Prof ✌🏻
Thank you, really interesting.
I went to Vienna for the music. Shawn went for the rocks.
Thank you Shawn 😊 fascinatingly amazing geology lesson today ❤ it 😊
What a fabulous video! I was totally blown away by this! Going to the city is never going to be the same now hehehe …. 😁 Really appreciate you taking the time to do this for us while you were on holiday - means a lot … 😜
I attended EGU in 2006 and an afternoon excursion into the Vienna Basin hosted by three local geologists, ending up at a family wine cellar, was a highlight of the trip! In an alternate timeline, I could have been a geologist, I think.
Wow! Fascinating! Way more interesting than shopping in any of those stores😅
Thanks for this unusual view on the buildings. Since I live in Vienna, I checked onsite as well and will try to have closer looks in the future and not just rush through the city.
so glad you did this !!!!!
Can you do video where you go to granite counter place and tell us what you see? I constantly find myself looking at everybody’s counter tops and trying to decide what I’m looking at!!!!
Wouldn't have guessed you could make a supporting column from something like migmatite because if its varied structure. I guess all those layers are annealed together and won't fracture.
Thanks Shawn
My gosh the architecture there is _exquisite!_ In a place that's not known for its seismicity I guess it's far less risky to construct their buildings out of plain stone, but I rather hope there's been SOME reinforcement incorporated into the structures at some point.
I'm assuming much of the stones used on the newer buildings is primarily fascia or veneer as opposed to the same material through-and-through. Either way the craftsmanship of the finished products are marvelous.
Thank you Shawn, i think I'd gone besides you a while. 👌Another view on inner part of cities. 👏🏻 If you will ever visit Heidelberg in Germany let me know- I'm by your side😊
Shawn that cathedral was nearly destroyed in WWII. Many of the pockmarks your hand ran over was bullet and shrapnel damage from this time period. If only those rocks could talk.
I see that you were on SciShow. Another great science channel. And the stones on the buildings was so cool. I’ve been to Vienna on business four times over the decades. Never once left my hotel to explore. Sad.
This pleased me so much! I thought I was the only one who regularly stopped to look at the rock used in storefronts.
After stopping in front of a store window as a child:
Mom: Do you like that dress? We can go in and try it on
Me: what dress? These fossils in the limestone are interesting, I think they might be ammonites.
Mom: sigh, should have known, Why can’t I have a daughter who’s interested in normal stuff?
Shawn's Wife: "OMG, we're in this huge and beautiful City and he manages to find Rocks to look at!"
Now if there's something I did not expect to see on your channel it's my hometown lol
@shawnwillsey I think the rock at 5:39 is polished slab of red nodular limestone. These are common as decorative stones throughout the countries of former Austro-Hunragrian Empire.