Beethovenplatz, Public square in Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria

Beethovenplatz is a public square in Vienna's first district, Innere Stadt, with grassy areas, pathways, and benches. It sits next to the Academic Gymnasium and is close to the Stadtpark.

The area lay outside the Stubentor as a glacis from the 16th century and was incorporated into Vienna in 1850. After the city walls were demolished from 1858, the land between the later Schubertring and Lothringerstraße was parcelled and built up from 1865, but one block was left open as a square; the Stadterweiterungsfonds handed the plot to the city free of charge in 1873. The Academic Gymnasium on its south-west side was built in 1863–1866 in Neo-Gothic style by Friedrich von Schmidt with Wilhelm Köllig and Josef Hlávka.

A bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven, made by Kaspar von Zumbusch in 1880, stands at the center of the square. Music lovers from around the world stop here to pay their respects to the composer.

The square is easy to reach on foot and sits near tram and subway stops. Visiting in the morning tends to be quieter and gives a clearer view of the monument and the surrounding green space.

The Beethoven monument was rotated 180 degrees in 1899, after the Wien River was vaulted over, so that it faced the now more important Lothringerstraße. The original model of the bronze figure stands in the foyer of the Wiener Konzerthaus diagonally across the square. The monument's stone base is by Eduard Hauser.