Fritz Wotruba Promenade
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna, inner city |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | 1906 |
| Hist. Names | Schallautzerstrasse |
| Connecting roads | Schallautzerstrasse |
| Cross streets | Weiskirchnerstrasse |
| Places | Oskar Kokoschka Square |
| Buildings | University of Applied Arts Vienna , Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
| Road design | combined bike and footpath |
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| Street length | approx. 197 meters |
The Fritz Wotruba Promenade is located in the first Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1993 after the Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba .
history
The area of today's Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade belonged to the suburbs in front of the Stubentor in the Middle Ages . Since the 16th century it was part of the glacis in front of the Vienna city wall ; As can be seen from a picture from 1609, the area next to the Wien River was built with small houses.
In the years 1895 to 1902 the Wien River was regulated and channeled against flooding in a deep concrete basin. In the course of this, the old Stubentorbrücke was replaced by the new Stubenbrücke around 1900 . The new Schallautzerstraße was built on the city side in 1906 along the Vienna River . The section between Kleiner Marxerbrücke and Stubenbrücke was separated from this in 1993 and named Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade . The artist had attended the sculpture class at the applied arts school.
Location and characteristics
The Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade runs as an extension of Schallautzerstraße from Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz or the Kleiner Marxerbrücke in a south-westerly direction along the Wien River to Weiskirchnerstraße or the Stubenbrücke. It is only accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, who each have their own wide lanes, which are separated from each other by a green strip. There are a number of small trees on the grass verge.
On the left, an Art Nouveau railing separates the Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade from the Wien River, which flows into it at a much lower level. On the right side are the backs of the University of Applied Arts and the Museum of Applied Arts . But there are no house numbers along the promenade. In addition to strollers, the Fritz Wotruba Promenade is therefore mainly frequented by students.
Buildings
University of Applied Arts
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An extension was added to the historical building of the former school of applied arts, now the University of Applied Arts, which was built by Heinrich von Ferstel on the Stubenring from 1875 to 1877, from 1962 to 1965 at the rear corner of Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz and Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade which was built by Karl Schwanzer . The rectangular building block has seven storeys and twenty-three axes, with the windows separated vertically by wall templates and drawn together by exposed brick wallpaper . A three-storey wing on Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz creates the connection to the historical building. A bronze bust of Oskar Kokoschka , created in 1963 by Alfred Hrdlicka , was also placed on this side .
Terrace plateau
Between the extension of the university and the museum for applied arts, Peter Noever created a terrace plateau between 1991 and 1993 that protrudes over the Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade. A special opening was provided in the terrace for a tree growing at this point on the promenade. The concrete structure has a glass construction facing the garden.
Museum of Applied Arts
→ see also main article Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
The monumental main building of the museum on the Stubenring was built from 1866 to 1871 by Heinrich von Ferstel as a historic brick building. It is the world's second oldest arts and crafts museum in the world. As early as 1906 to 1908, Ludwig Baumann built an extension on the corner of Weiskirchnerstrasse and Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade, which stylistically adapts to the main building and integrates secessionist elements. The front on the Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade is two-story and has slightly protruding risalits at the corners . The ground floor is rusticated , on the upper floor there are blind niches with shell-adorned domes between the windows . A roof balustrade closes at the top.
literature
- Richard Perger: streets, towers and bastions. The road network of the Vienna City in its development and its name. Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7005-4628-9 , p. 122.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Fritz-Wotruba-Promenade. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 423 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City. Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , pp. 536-540.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 27.3 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 58.2" E