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This house is situated next to "Pasqualati House", a place where Beethoven spent most of his years during his stay in Vienna. Address: Vienna, 1st district, Mölkersteig 1. According to tradition this is the place where the Fröhlichs lived, a wealthy Vienna middle-class family with three daughters: Hannerl, Kati and Nanette. To promote their musical talent their father engaged young Schubert to teach them in piano and singing. But he was not only the teacher, he became a frequent guest and friend of the family. Within Schubert's lifetime the Dreimäderlhaus was a well-known meeting-place of artistically interested Viennese. The poet Franz Grillparzer had a life-long friendship with Kati. The Dreimäderlhaus was built in 1803, on Mölkerbastei, a part of Vienna's former belt of fortification. The largest part of those defensive walls disappeared later on to make room for the Ringstraße, opened in 1865. Mölkerbastei was left unchanged. As one of the few remaining parts of old Vienna it was frequently used as background scenery in films, e.g. Orson Welles' "The Third Man" or Hans Moser's Schubert film, entitled "The Dreimäderlhaus".
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