Vienna Vienna was a city in Austria . The river Danube flowed through the city . ( AUDIO : " A Requiem for the Doctor " ) Around 2010 s , it consisted of districts , one of which was called Floridsdorf . ( AUDIO : " The Sontaran Project " ) Visits by the Doctor . The Fifth Doctor , River Song and Brooke visited Vienna in the 18th century investigating an alien trace . They arrived around the time Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finished his " Requiem in D minor " . Together they prevented multiple fatalities at the premiere performance of the " Requieum " caused by Aqua Galatia . ( AUDIO : " A Requiem for the Doctor " ) Vienna was particularly favoured by the Eighth Doctor . He left Samson and Gemma Griffin in Vienna while answering a distress signal from his future self . ( AUDIO : " Mary ' s Story " ) Later , he took Mary Shelley there on her very first journey in the TARDIS , attempting to reunite with Samson and Gemma . However , he got the date wrong and landed in 1873 instead of 1816 . On this trip , he and Shelley battled Cybermen . ( AUDIO : " The Silver Turk " ) On another occasion , he battled a Bacchanite in Vienna and in the process inspired Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to write " Faust " . ( PROSE : " The Sorrows of Vienna " ) After World War II , Vienna was administered by the Allied Control Console . The city was divided into four zones patrolled by the United Kingdom , France , the United States of America and Soviet Union . In 1948 , the Sixth Doctor , Constance Clarke and Flip Jackson visited Vienna . The Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown also visited Vienna in 2100 , if only long enough to deposit the Time Lord Techu there . ( PROSE : " Leap Second " ) The Tenth Doctor once visited Vienna . He went to the Vienna State Opera to see Puccini ' s grand opera Turandot . The alien Anton Mordillo was the star of the opera . ( COMIC : " The Great Mordillo " ) Other visitors . Sherlock Holmes and John Watson went on holiday to Vienna on the Orient Express . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) Indeed , Vienna was highly significant to Europe ' s railway network , being a stop on the Transcontinental Express as well . On 3 September 1939 , Romana II rode the Calais - Vienna leg of that journey . ( AUDIO : " A Blind Eye " ) Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish once travelled back in time to Vienna to ensure that Adolf Hitler was admitted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . ( PROSE : " The Sideways Door " ) Commander Merx , a Sontaran , was shortly held in Vienna before being transferred to England to be used in the cloning experiments of Professor John Torrance . ( AUDIO : " The Sontaran Project " ) Known residents . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was known to have lived in Vienna for a time , and indeed his DNA was once recovered from a harpsichord there and used to clone him . ( AUDIO : " My Own Private Wolfgang " ) He lived there in the 18th century with his wife Constanze who loved him very much . Mozart died because he was poisoned by Aqua Galatia . ( AUDIO : " A Requiem for the Doctor " ) Toby the Sapient Pig was grown in a bell jar in Vienna . ( AUDIO : " Year of the Pig " ) Hitler was educated in Vienna . ( PROSE : " The Sideways Door " ) Johannes Rausch earned a degree in metallurgy at the University of Vienna . ( AUDIO : " Unregenerate ! " ) Around 2010 s , the headquarters of the Auctioneers was in Floridsdorf district of Vienna . The Overseer operated from there . The office was closed after Christine Colley was captured by UNIT . ( AUDIO : " The Sontaran Project " ) Hilberta ' s Hostel operated in Vienna in the 27th century . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) Other references . The clone of Bertie Potts , who introduced himself as the British consul in Ur , claimed that he was hoping for a posting in Vienna . ( AUDIO : " The Boundless Sea " )