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Linzer Landstraße: From a magnificent mile to a problem child

A sign says more than a thousand words.(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

Linzer Landstraße was once one of the best shopping streets in Austria. But if you now walk from Goethekreuzung to Taubenmarkt, you can safely leave your wallet behind. There are more and more vacancies, authentic stores are gone, cell phone stores and system gastronomy can be found between corporate outlets - a "Krone" local's eye view.

Our "Krone" local inspection begins at Landstraße 86, at the Goethe crossing: with its back to the Volksgarten, which is frequented by an international audience, it immediately becomes Arabic-Turkish: on the right hand side is the Al-Ouds supermarket, diagonally opposite the Linzer Döner.