Backerstrasse 14 Adler Rooms

Description

An address in Vienna: Bäckerstraße 14. Personal rooms of Kapellmeister Friedrich Adler. Known to Anna Lindqvist because she has been brought there for “training sessions” during her captivity-in-plain-sight.

What It Reveals

• Adler has a private Vienna base distinct from the University and the Conservatory. This is where he stores personal effects — possibly correspondence with Herzfeld, the Brotherhood of the Open Measure’s Munich contacts via Der Kantor, and notes on the Engine’s performance requirements.
• The address is not widely known. Kaunitz may or may not know it. Vogel probably does not — the rooms are Adler’s personal space, not Brotherhood operational property.
• The rooms are almost certainly unoccupied during the masquerade (Adler is at the Palais Lobkowitz) and remain unoccupied afterwards because Adler is fleeing.

Where Found

Bäckerstrasse is a narrow medieval street in the Vienna inner city, between St. Stephen’s Cathedral district and the university quarter. Number 14 is a townhouse with rented upper-floor rooms typical for professional men of Adler’s standing.

Connections

• Discovery vector: Anna Lindqvist (Session 9 debrief, once she can speak)
• Actionable by: the entire party — any PC with an hour to spare before the political noose tightens
• Access method: a lock (Katherine Ward can pick it; Nell Coker can case the building first) or direct entry if the rooms have been abandoned during Adler’s flight
• Ownership confusion: if Adler flees to the University rather than Bäckerstrasse, the rooms are a soft target. If he is captured or killed, the rooms are unguarded.