Akademiestraße (Vienna)
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna Inner City |
| District | Inner city |
| Created | 1862 |
| Cross streets | Krugerstrasse, Walfischgasse, Mahlerstrasse, Kärntner Ring , Bösendorferstrasse |
| Places | Max-Weiler-Platz, Karlsplatz |
| Buildings | Künstlerhaus Vienna , Commercial Academy I |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , car traffic , tram lines 1, 62, local train Vienna – Baden |
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| Street length | approx. 300 meters |
The Academy Street is located in the first Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1862 after the commercial academy established there.
history
Until the beginning of the 1860s, the Viennese city wall crossed the course of today's Akademiestraße. Outside the wall, the suburb in front of the Kärntnertor was located in the Middle Ages .
Here the Bürgerspital was in front of the Kärntnertor , roughly in the area of today's Kärntner Ring , Akademiestraße and Karlsplatz up to the Wien River . It was founded between 1253 and 1257. Locals and strangers, the poor and the sick, as well as children and old people were admitted to the Citizens Hospital. The financing came from numerous foundations that benefited the hospital.
In 1529 the citizen hospital, like all other suburban buildings, had to be torn down before the approaching Turks and was moved to the city. The site has belonged to the Glacis since the 16th century and remained undeveloped.
After Emperor Franz Joseph I decided in 1857 to dismantle the city fortifications and to have the Vienna Ringstrasse built in their place , Akademiestrasse was built in 1862 as a cross street to the Kärntner Ring between Walfischgasse on the edge of the historic old town in the north and the new Karlsplatz in the south. a total of four blocks. In 1881 it was extended by one block in the direction of the city center to Krugerstraße by building on the former Walfischplatz. In 2003, the section between Mahlerstraße and Kärntner Ring was renamed Max-Weiler-Platz , but the adjoining buildings were left with their Akademiestraße addresses.
Location and characteristics
Akademiestrasse runs from Krugerstrasse in the north to Karlsplatz in the south. Between Krugerstraße and Mahlerstraße it is a one-way street , then Max-Weiler-Platz with its pedestrian zone between Mahlerstraße and Kärntner Ring interrupts Akademiestraße, which crosses the ring. Between Kärntner Ring and Karlsplatz, the track on Akademiestraße is used by the tracks of tram lines 1 and 62 and the Badner Bahn . Cars are not allowed to travel between Karlsplatz and Bösendorferstraße , between Bösendorferstraße and Kärntner Ring they can drive in one direction on the tracks. Due to this constellation, the car and bicycle traffic in the Akademiestraße is very low, as only very small sections are accessible.
The construction is mainly characterized by historicist residential buildings from the last third of the 19th century, which belong to the Ringstrasse zone, and at Karlsplatz also by representative monumental buildings. There are numerous restaurants and shops in the upper price range in Akademiestrasse.
Buildings
No. 1a: Bernhard Hoffmann's residential and commercial building
The historicist corner house was built by Ludwig Tischler in 1881 . It is located at the main address Walfischgasse 13.
No. 1b: Carl-Vaugoin-Hof
The historicist residential and commercial building Blümel, which was built by Carl Tietz in 1860, was originally located here. After its destruction in World War II, today's Carl-Vaugoin -Hof was built in 1957–1958 at the main address Walfischgasse 10. The name is reminiscent of a Christian social politician from the interwar period.
No. 2: Late historic corner house
The house was built in 1908/1909 by Alfred Rothermann in neo-baroque forms for Alexander Erdödy from the Hungarian magnate family. The facade is richly structured by bay windows, especially on the corner. The top floor is set off somewhat by a cornice, and there is also a remarkable secessionist flying roof made of glass and iron above the round corner bay window. The neo-baroque portal shows a heraldic cartouche of Count Erdödy.
No. 2b-2c: Gustav-Mahler-Hof
The residential and commercial building for Heinrich von Drasche-Wartinberg was built by Ludwig Förster in 1861/1862. The early historical through-house with an inner courtyard, which is free standing on three sides, has entrances in Walfischgasse 8 and Mahlerstraße 7. The building was later named after Gustav Mahler . It is owned by a foundation left by Karl Wlaschek in 2015 .
No. 3: Historic corner house
The building was erected in 1868/1869 by Ferdinand Schlaf in the form of the Viennese Neo-Renaissance . It is located at the main address Mahlerstraße 9.
No. 4 to 7: Max-Weiler-Platz
The two blocks of houses between Mahlerstraße and Kärntner Ring on both sides of Akademiestraße are connected to the Ringstraße galleries by an enclosed bridge on the 1st floor. The Max-Weiler- Platz has been stretching in front of them since 2003 . However, the buildings still have house numbers on Akademiestraße on the electronic city map of the Vienna city administration.
No. 8: residential and commercial building
The early historic corner house at Kärntner Ring 8 was designed in 1860/1861 by the architects Wilhelm von Flattich and Carl Schumann .
No. 9: Early historic corner house
The residential and commercial building was built in 1863/1864 by Anton Baumgarten for Alfred Pollak von Rudin in neo-Renaissance forms. It is located at Kärntner Ring 10.
No. 10: Historic corner house
The important historicist corner house in neo-renaissance forms was built in 1868/1869 by Johann Romano vonringen and August Schwendenwein von Lonauberg . It is at the address Bösendorferstraße 7.
No. 11: Historic corner house
The house of Hans Georg von Angeli was built in 1869 by Friedrich Schachner in neo-Renaissance forms. It is located at Bösendorferstrasse 9.
No. 12: Commercial Academy I of the Viennese merchant class
1860–1862 Ferdinand Fellner the Elder built the commercial academy I for the Viennese merchants in the form of a late romantic historicism; the street was named after this academy. It was the first completed public building in the newly created Ringstrasse zone . In 1909 Eduard Frauenfeld added the fourth floor, and from 1993–1995 the building was renovated. Today the business academy is called Vienna Business School .
The schoolhouse was built on an E-shaped floor plan, free-standing on three sides. In the middle there is a central staircase, on both sides there are two small inner courtyards. The facade is articulated by polygonal pillars and cornices. The entrance portal is located in the central projection and is flanked by the statues of Adam Smith and Christopher Columbus , both created in 1862 by Josef Cesar. Arched windows can be seen on the central projectile and on the mezzanine floor, and segmented arched windows on the rest of the facade.
In the building there is a large vestibule with an M-shaped staircase. The ballroom on the second floor is entered through an elaborately designed door with round arches and rosettes. On the third floor there is a wide room with a memorial plaque from 1909. The bookshelves of the library are framed by pillars and also date from 1909.
No. 13: Künstlerhaus cinema
The Künstlerhaus Wien at Karlsplatz 5 was built by August Weber in 1865–1868 as a representative exhibition and assembly building for the cooperative of Viennese visual artists founded in 1861 . It is one of the most outstanding buildings in Vienna's Ringstrasse zone and, together with the commercial academy and the music association building, forms an ensemble on Karlsplatz.
The left side pavilion on Akademiestraße was converted into a cinema hall by Alfons Hetmanek in 1947–1949 with the participation of Carlos Riefel and Rudolf Pleban . On the side walls of the entrance portal are sgraffiti by Leopold Schmid from 1948, which symbolically represent the various film genres. The cinema itself has monumental canvas paintings by Rudolf Eisenmenger , ceiling stucco reliefs by Rudolf Schmidt , putti reliefs by Ferdinand Opitz and Erich Pieler, and mahogany masks next to the stage by Alfons Riedel . The cinema was one of the venues of the Viennale film festival sponsored by the city administration . Since September 2013, a Viennale subsidiary has been showing it all year round as a city cinema in the Künstlerhaus .
The statues of Peter Paul Rubens by Victor Tilgner (1879–82) and Albrecht Dürer's by Anton Schmidgruber (1879) are located on the outside facing Akademiestrasse .
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Akademiestraße. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 33 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City . Verlag Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Wlaschek's real estate in the first district of Vienna , in: Falter (weekly newspaper) , No. 33/2015, August 12, 2015, p. 16
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17.7 ″ E