Pastel plastered Biedermeier houses line the pedestrian old town, where Am anderen Ufer filmed its closing scene on the Hauptplatz.
What Baden bei Wien looks like
The Hauptplatz is a pedestrian square lined with two storey plastered houses, their facades painted ochre, cream and pink with arched window surrounds and shallow cornices. A Baroque plague column from 1713 stands at its centre, and the faces it across the square. The , also on the square, has the same plastered front and hosts changing exhibitions behind its doors. Cafés with outdoor seating take up some of the ground floor shopfronts nearest the corner.
Rathausgasse and the lanes around it carry the same rebuild, in the same pastel range, with cobbled paving and no car traffic. The museum occupies one of these houses behind a plain two storey front. A block over, Renngasse is narrower, with a hanging shop sign over an arched entrance.
The Kurpark opens out from the old town's edge, with gravel paths through lawns and trees up the slope of the Badener Berg. The former Kurhaus, built in 1884 in a Neorenaissance style with a glass pavilion at one corner, has operated as the since 1934. The , an open air theatre rebuilt in 1906, sits a short walk away on its own square off the park. The 1909 stands nearby.
Shot in Baden bei Wien
Am anderen Ufer, a feature produced by Wolf Danny Homann and Frederik Füssel, filmed its closing scene on the Hauptplatz. The shoot wrapped there on a Saturday in late September 2018, with residents and visitors gathered to watch.
Am anderen Ufer, 2018
The Hauptplatz
The production's last shot was filmed on this square on a Saturday in late September 2018. The production's own photographs from the shoot name the Rathaus, facing the square, as the backdrop. Street View
What Baden bei Wien can double for
Spittelberg in Vienna, Austria
Spittelberg's cobbled pedestrian lanes and low plastered Biedermeier houses are close in scale to Baden's old town, with the same pastel render and arched window surrounds. Baden's streets carry less street furniture and fewer tourists in frame. Spittelberg's buildings run taller in places and its lanes are shorter, so a wide shot needs careful framing to avoid showing the end of the block. Try searching cobbled Biedermeier pedestrian lanes now.
Karlovy Vary in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Karlovy Vary is a similarly grand nineteenth century Central European spa town, with a kurpark, colonnades and a casino built up around the same Habsburg era bathing culture as Baden. Its architecture leans more toward ornate colonnades than Baden's plain Biedermeier plaster. Karlovy Vary's river runs through the town centre, which Baden's old town does not have, so a wide shot needs to keep any water out of frame. Try searching grand spa town colonnades now.
Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden, Germany
Baden-Baden is the other Baden, a German spa town with its own casino and kurpark on a similar town scale, used for the same kind of Habsburg era resort setting. Its casino park and colonnade are more ornate than Baden bei Wien's plain plastered Kurhaus. The Black Forest hills behind Baden-Baden are steeper than the Badener Berg, which shows in any wide shot that includes the skyline. Try searching German spa town casino park now.
