Greek merchants settled around Fleischmarkt from about 1700, which gradually became known as the Griechenviertel (Greek quarter). Today it has some attractive art nouveau buildings, such as No 14, built by F Dehm and F Olbricht (1899), No 7 (Max Kropf; 1899) – the childhood home of Hollywood film director Billy Wilder from 1914 to 1924 – and Nos 1 and 3 (1910).
The favourite meeting place of the Greek community was the Griechenbeisl , today one of Vienna’s most popular (and touristed) Beisln. As the they became more established, a few wealthier Greeks spun off towards the Ringstrasse and built larger abodes there, and one immigrant, the industrialist and politician Nikolaus von Dumba, commissioned the building of Palais Dumba in 1866.
