Elisabethstrasse (Graz)
The Elizabeth Street is a street in the Austrian city of Graz and runs from the city park towards the east.
history
The street was initially named Pittonigasse after Joseph Claudius Pittoni (1797–1878), Knight of Dannenfeldt. He had large estates in the area of today's Elisabethstraße, the so-called Breunerhof grounds.
In 1856 the street was renamed after Elisabeth (1837 Munich - 1898 Geneva; murdered), the popular Empress of Austria, also known as Sisi . At the beginning of the street on the city park side, on the occasion of the visit of the Empress in 1856, a neo-Gothic wooden tabernacle with her bust, no longer in existence today, was erected. With its intact, predominantly richly structured historical facade, Elisabethstrasse is one of the most representative Wilhelminian-style streets with former important aristocratic residences in Graz.
The road was laid out before the introduction of the metric system and is just under a classic mile (1,478 meters) long. In the incoherently built-up part of the street there is an avenue with plane trees , which date from the time when the street was laid out as Elisabethstraße.
In the Elisabethstraße there are a number of representative and magnificent buildings of former noble families as well as wealthy citizens. Among others, the Palais Kees , Palais Auersperg, Palais Kottulinsky , Palais Mayr-Melnhof , Palais Prokesch-Osten, Palais Kübeck, the Villa Lazarini and the Villa Kollmann are to be mentioned .
Today Elisabethstrasse has largely lost its stately character. Here the Gleisdorfer Straße B65 flows into the Graz city area, which results in a very high traffic load with regular traffic jams.
swell
- Karl Albrecht Kubinzky : Graz street names - origin and meaning . Leykam, Graz 1998, ISBN 3-7011-7382-6 .
- Horst Schweigert: Dehio - Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 .
- Office of the Styrian Provincial Government Department 9 - Culture - Graz Old Town Office Expert Commission (Ed.): AGIS - Old Town Graz Information System.