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Gas lighting was the norm for Vienna until after WW I when electricity became big. Our house was wired for electricity right from the beginning in 1913, back then it was something unusual to have electricity in _all_ apartments of a house. Power was 220V DC back then, each apartment of 1000 sq. feet having two 4amp circuits for lights and sockets.

My grandmother from Germany was born in 1925 and still remembers having gas light at her first childhood home.

I'd say that wasn't even a mansion, that was a castle!

You're sure you didn't get the bids for the Royal Castle of Stockholm, are you?

No, that is roughly twenty times larger with some 600 rooms.

Many houses built here around the turn of the century had gas lighting. It's not unusual to find old Victorian houses which still have one or two gas lamps in place and connected to the supply.

Many of these places show evidence that the first electrical installations probably took place in the 1920s or 1930s.

Wow! I could never have imagined.

Me too! Pretty much all old gas stuff has disappeared with the changeover from town gas to natural gas here. Due to the 2.5 times higher caloric value of natural gas all old stuff would have needed to be converted and people were simply told conversion wasn't possible for any stuff older than maybe 10 years, so that dates the oldest useable gas appliances in Vienna to around 1960. Still, several of the old gas taps have survuved the gas company's Gestapo-methods and lurk around in kitchens and sometimes bathrooms, still connected to the supply.

The gas company of Upper Austria had the big marketing gag of lighting their parking lot with gas candelabres... aside of LPG operated camping lights these are the only real-life gas lights I've ever seen.