Old estate
The old estate was a property in the 10th district of Vienna , Favoriten . In the first half of the 19th century it comprised some of the few buildings on the slopes of the Wienerberg / Boschberg / Laaer Berg ridge, which were still completely undeveloped and often used for agriculture . The former brickworks subsequently became a very well-known entertainment establishment for a short time, later used partly as an inn and partly as a factory before the buildings were demolished. The location of the facility is not identical to the Altes Landgut underground station, which opened on September 2, 2017, and the bus stop at the Favoriten district . In May 2020, the city administration announced a municipal housing project at Vienna Central Station, using the project name Neues Landgut .
"Fortification brick litter"
The 10th district was created in 1874 outside the line wall that existed until the turn of the century and south of the southern runway from a settlement that emerged with the construction of the first southern train station from 1838, was incorporated into the 4th district in 1850, and from 1862 to 1874 as districts 4 and 5 belonged to. The entire remaining area on the north and south slopes of the Wienerberg was undeveloped at the time. There were only a few individual structures such as the Christian stone column Spinner on the cross and several brickworks.
Due to a shortage of bricks and rising building material prices, the kk Fortifications Districts Direction , which was responsible for military fortifications, decided in 1802 to build an army-owned brick factory. To do this, she acquired from Inzersdorfer landlord Peter Joseph de Traux de Wardin (from Luxembourg nobility, raised to imperial baron status by Emperor Franz II in 1803. ) 24.5 yoke ( 14.1 ha ) of arable land "in the upper and middle Muhren" outside of the Favorite line called goal in the line wall. Today this area is located in the area south of Reumannplatz, which rises slightly to the south . The term brick chipping comes from the manual, artisanal brick production by means of modeling called casting molds.
The brickworks was built roughly between the current traffic areas Inzersdorfer Strasse, Favoritenstrasse , Troststrasse and Ettenreichgasse . In contrast to the private brickworks on the Wienerberg, the fortification brickworks were large-scale operations. In the center of the facility was the brick pit, to the west of which there were seven drying huts that were covered but open on all sides, two pump wells that ensured the water supply, and the double brick oven that towered over all the other buildings. There were also the distilleries and the workers' quarters. In the north, at the location of today's Inzersdorfer Straße, was the elongated, approximately 100 m long main building of the production plant, in the western part of which the brick kiln inn was located.
The entire complex had the Inzersdorfer conscription number 151, but belonged to the tax community of Wieden and was part of the church of the Oberlaa parish . Both soldiers and civilians who lived here with their families worked in the Ziegelschlag; the inn was left to a tenant. Since plans to build new fortifications for Vienna, which had originally led to the founding of the Ziegelschlag, came to nothing over the course of time, efforts were made from 1829 to find a buyer or leaseholder and the brick kiln was shut down.
Casino in the estate
In 1831 it was possible to find a tenant for the property. Leander Prasch, however, was only interested in the more open, prosperous brick kiln inn, let the brick-making buildings fall into disrepair and finally bought the entire site cheaply in 1834. After he had set up a bowling alley in one of the drying buildings as a leaseholder, he had all the factory buildings demolished as the current owner and built the new casino in the estate , incorporating the old residential and pub building . In doing so, it met the demand at that time for luxurious entertainment venues in green areas outside Vienna, such as those that arose several times in the 1830s, for example the Tivoli in Meidling , Dommayers Casino in Hietzing , the Colosseum and the Universum in Brigittenau .
The restaurant was geared towards higher and wealthy circles who devoted themselves to music and dance entertainment as part of a so-called country party. It consisted of a restaurant with a spacious garden and a characteristic columned hall with a covered upper floor in the north-west of the garden. There was a box for the orchestra and the dance floor. Stairs could be used to reach a viewing terrace from which a wonderful panoramic view of Vienna and its surroundings opened up. Instead of the drying huts of the former brickyard, there was now a gigantic double-nave swing as an attraction. There was also a bowling alley and pool tables. Another attraction from 1841 was the Südbahn, which drove away from the Gloggnitz train station and could be easily observed from the estate, as the columns of smoke from the steam locomotives could be seen from afar.
Ball festivals were always held under a certain motto, and leading musicians such as Joseph Lanner , Friedrich Fahrbach or Franz Morelly played continuously . In addition to fireworks, there was a two-story human-shaped scaffolding that was illuminated by oil lamps. Leander Prasch's casino in the country estate was one of the leading entertainment establishments in the pre-March period. Like the other restaurants of this type, however, it became too expensive to operate, and when the public's taste changed and other “sensations” attracted, Prasch closed his establishment in 1844 and sold it. He himself now opened a soon-to-be-known coffee house on the Wieden (later in the 4th district).
The old estate
In 1844 the landowner Laurenz Felser bought the restaurant and ran it in a more economical way as an inn on the estate until 1851. After that, the property was owned by the Spodium manufacturer Eduard Wagner, who continued to run the inn on Himberger Strasse, today's Favoritenstrasse, but behind it set up his business in which bones were burned to ashes in the open air. In the 1870s, the well-known Drexler ensemble performed at the inn every Wednesday with their Viennese music. The Spodium factory was shut down.
After the district of Favoriten was founded in 1874, the inn was given the address Himberger Straße 92 (since 1903: Favoritenstraße 166, corner of Troststraße). In the 1880s, a soap factory, a sparing butter factory and a tar factory were built in the back yard. From 1889, the southern terminus of a horse-drawn tramway was in front of the inn on the estate; In 1900 the line was electrified, in 1914 it reached as far as the Donauländebahn in the south and was used for decades by tram line 67 (or 167), which had its terminus in the city center on the ring road, at the opera .
In 1901 the social reporter Max Winter mentions the run-down buildings of the inn and the factories behind and describes them as an example of the desolate ambience in the neglected working-class district. Shortly afterwards they disappeared for good. Instead, an Gasthaus zum neue Landgut was built further south on the corner of Favoritenstrasse and Schleiergasse, but was called Gastwirtschaft zum Alten Landgut in the 1920s . As a result, the memory of the actual location of the once famous entertainment venue was forgotten. The Landgutgasse in northern Favoriten and the Alte Landgut ( distribution circle Favoriten ), both of which are relatively far away from the actual location of the establishment , are still reminiscent of the old estate . A new estate will be built in the northernmost part of Favoriten in the 2020s .
literature
- Altes Landgut in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Altes Landgut in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Walter Sturm: "... except the line". Favorites on Wienerberg . Favoritner Museum Blätter 30. Vienna 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ welt-der-wappen.de: Coat of arms of the Moselle-Rhineland nobility , accessed on February 19, 2011
- ↑ zeno.org: Muhren , accessed on February 19, 2011
- ↑ Declaration of brick production as a craft ( Memento of the original from February 4, 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 ° 10 ′ 11 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 42.6 ″ E