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The "inner city" used to be the whole city. And all of Vienna used to be a market. Behind every corner there were stalls or market women who sold their goods on a piece of cloth on the street. At the Heumarkt there was hay, at the Fleischmarkt cattle and pigs, at the Kohlmarkt cabbage vegetables and at the Tuchlauben fine fabrics. Why is the Tuchlauben called Tuchlauben? Because the street was already so tightly built that you could only build into the street from the first floor onwards. These floors were held up on the ground floor by columns that formed arcades that you could walk through.