Alser barracks
The Alser barracks was located in Vienna , in the 9th district , Alsergrund , on Alser Strasse (at that time house number 2) on the area of today's Otto-Wagner-Platz . Today the headquarters of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank is located on the northern edge of this area .
history
In 1689 the construction of the so-called landscape academy or school was completed here, a higher educational institution of the Lower Austrian estates . In 1749 the school was closed due to competition. The Hofkammer, forerunner of the Ministry of Finance, acquired the building in 1751 and had the Alser barracks built in its place from 1751 to 1753 on the 26,673 square meter property with a built-up area of 13,952 square meters, which was occupied on April 18, 1753.
Following successful trials of the so-called thermal lamp in the barracks of Znojmo sat Andreas Zacharias Winzler 1801/1802 on behalf of the War Department's attempts in the Alser Barracks continued successfully.
In the last years of its existence, the Alser barracks provided space for two staffs from kuk infantry regiments and six infantry battalions of the common army , Section I of the garrison court (garrison arrest) as well as 21 apartments for officers and 25 apartments for married NCOs. The barracks were equipped with a Catholic and a Protestant chapel .
From the 1870s onwards, the area of the barracks for police buildings was considered, which they wanted to locate at the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters opposite the barracks on Alser Strasse so that prisoners could be brought to court on foot. However, since the relocation of the army facilities was delayed by decades, the Rossauer Lände police building, which is much further away from the court, was built for the police . Curiously, after a long period of planning, construction did not begin until 1902, when the army would no longer have been an obstacle to the location on Alser Strasse, which was desired at the time.
On February 6, 1902, the municipality of Vienna took over the barracks as part of the so-called barracks transaction and had it torn down in 1912.
The troops of the joint army stationed here until then were relocated to the Archduke Carl barracks built in 1910/1911 , then in the 21st district, and since 1954 in the 22nd district of Vienna . An Islamic prayer room was set up there for the Bosnian soldiers who were also stationed here and who were relocated to the Archduke Albrecht barracks in the 2nd district of Vienna, which was built between 1894 and 1896 . Both new barracks were located at a significantly greater distance from the city center than the Alser barracks.
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On the northern part of the barracks area, the building planned in 1913 for the Austro-Hungarian Bank , the central bank of the dual monarchy , commissioned in 1925 as the main building of the Austrian National Bank and still in use today, was erected as a green area designed, free and named Otto-Wagner-Platz in 1925 ; a smaller part to the east was named Frankhplatz in 1935 . (Among other things, Wagner had built the suspenders' house to the east .) The gate of the Alser barracks was bought by a Hungarian magnate and transported from Vienna.
Neighbor: Red House
Immediately to the east of the Alser barracks was an elongated building erected in 1802/1803, the so-called Red House of the Esterházy princes , with four courtyards, 20 staircases and more than 150 apartments, one of the largest residential buildings in Vienna; the Esterházy library was also housed here. In 1804 Ludwig van Beethoven lived here for a few weeks. The complex was sold in 1861 and demolished in 1888/89. Before 1900, the blocks east of Otto-Wagner-Platz up to Garnisongasse were built on its site. Rotenhausgasse, named in 1862, which delimited the facility to the north from the General Hospital, is a reminder of the building.
literature
- Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century - A Guide in Technical and Artistic Direction (Volume 2) , published by the Austrian Association of Architects, Verlag von Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1906
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
Web links
- Alser Kaserne in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Estates landscape school in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; Retrieved on Aug. 22, 2017
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 54 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 17 ″ E