Venue and Local Information
About the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ACDH-CH ÖAW)
The Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ACDH-CH ÖAW) has set itself the goal of strengthening the humanities through the application of digital technologies and methods and offers various services in this area. In its research, the ACDH-ÖAW team deals mainly with questions concerning texts or language, especially dialects.
Location
1010 Vienna, Bäckerstraße 13: Seminar rooms 1 and 2 on ground-floor level
Subway stations in the vicinity:
- U3 (orange colored line) “Stubentor”,
- U4 (green colored line) & U1 (red colored line) “Schwedenplatz”
- U1 “Stephansplatz”
If you are staying at the Hotel “Motel One Westbahnhof“, you can take the line U3 from
Westbahnhof to Stubentor (5 stations in direction “Simmering”, 8-10min).
Travel Reimbursement
Please note that we have a limited budget for the reimbursement of travel expenses.
If possible, travel expenses should be handled/covered by your respective institution.
In special cases, we may grant a reimbursement of up to €300 for travels from abroad within the available budget limits.
Participants travelling within Austria may apply for a CLARIAH-AT travel grant.
Participants applying for any of the above mentioned reimbursement possibilities are requested to pre-finance the travel costs and submit the corresponding invoices.
Accommodation
Hotels
Accommodation for the Training School will be at the Hotel Wien-Westbahnhof Motel One. The organisers have confirmed rooms for Training School participants.
- Breakfast will be provided.
- The 4 nights from Sunday, June 9th to Thursday, June 13th will be covered by CLS Infra.
- Any additional nights (e.g. for the CCLS 2024 conference, which takes place from June 13th – 14th) will need to be paid for by the participant.
- Alternatively, training school participants may check out from the hotel on Thursday, June 13th and organize their individual accommodation for the rest of their stay in Vienna.
Accommodation - General
Please note that hotels in the 1st district of Vienna are in general more expensive than others further away. There are quite a few nice hotels, hostels and smaller bed & breakfasts in the districts surrounding the centre of Vienna. With the subway most of them can be reached between 15-20min.
.. or simply check out the usual accommodation platforms of your choice (e.g. www.booking.com).
For longer stays please check:
Public Transit in Vienna
Public transit around Vienna is excellent. Wiener Linien is the municipal transit authority. Tickets and passes cover all city train and subway services and nearly all tram and bus services.
How it works
The four main forms of transport are U-Bahn (subway), Schnellbahn or S-Bahn (local train), Straßenbahn (tram) and Autobus (bus). Tickets and passes are independent of your mode of travel: a single ticket from A to B, for example, covers tram, city train, subway and bus for that journey.
Public transport in the city: Wiener Linien
- WienMobil App
- Maps for download
- best option: 72h ticket (valid in the core zone of Vienna), ca. 18€
- with the above mentioned ticket, you can use OEBB trains & Schnellbahn, Badner Bahn, bus, tram, underground/metro and most regional bus lines within city limits.
- Note that the ticket doesn’t include airport buses, the Westbahn train and the City Airport Train (CAT).
- Alternatively, you may install the WienMobil App to purchase (single) tickets via your smartphone.
Train network: OEBB
- note that the “Westbahn” train is not part of the OEBB.
Airport Transport:
- CAT (City Airport Train – non-stop transfer to the airport), ca. 19€ for one direction
- some OEBB trains go to the airport too (with more stops in between, but cheaper), ca. 4-5€ for one direction
- SBahn S7 (direction Hainburg-Wolfsthal) stops at the airport. You need an additional ticket to your core zone ticket from the border (Schwechat Stadt), which is ca. 2€. A ticket from the city centre to the airport via S7 is around 4€.
- Vienna Airport Lines (Bus)
- Note that the airport is located outside the core zone of Vienna.
Where to buy tickets
Buy your tickets from ticket offices in the main stations, ticket machines in stations, the Wiener Linien online store or app, and (for some very basic tickets) from Trafik newsagents/tobacconists.
Some of the tickets you buy need to be validated in a stamping machine before boarding. Whether you need to do so should be relatively clear from the ticket.
Check this page for more: Visiting Vienna
Transit + Tourism
If you plan to stay in Vienna and attend some tourist attractions, consider the Vienna City Card, a public transit pass designed for visitors.
This 24, 48 or 72-hour network travel card for the city also qualifies you for various discounts across a 7-day period. Just about anything you’re likely to visit, watch or see offers some kind of small reduction with the Vienna City Card.
Food, Super Markets, Bakeries, etc.
There are a lot of nice stores in the vicinity of the ACDH-CH – here are just the most important ones.
Note that most of the shops close around 6 or 7pm (only supermarkets near the main tramway stations “Wien Mitte – Landstraße”, “Hauptbahnhof” and “Westbahnhof” have longer opening hours):
Supermarkets
- “SPAR”: 1010 Vienna, Parkring 2 (a bigger one)
- “SPAR”: 1010 Vienna, Wollzeile 39 (a smaller store, just for grabbing a quick bite)
Drugstore
- “DM”: 1010 Vienna, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz 4
Pharmacies
- “Apotheke zum römischen Kaiser”: 1010 Vienna, Wollzeile 13
- “Schweden-Apotheke”: 1010 Vienna, Schwedenplatz 2
Bakeries
- “Anker”: 1010 Vienna, Wollzeile 30
- “Öfferl”: 1010 Vienna, Wollzeile 31
- “Ströck”: 1010 Vienna, Schwedenplatz 2