Amonstiege

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amonstiege

The Amonstiege is a staircase in Vienna's 6th district , Mariahilf .

It is a 13 meter long straight street staircase with iron handrail and four landings: 48 steps in the course of Stiegengasse connect the lower Gumpendorfer Straße with the higher Windmühlgasse . From there the Raimundhof , the through-house of the house "Zum golden Hirschen" (birthplace of Ferdinand Raimund ) with several stairs , leads to Mariahilfer Strasse , while the stairs downwards are used as a direct route to Vienna's Naschmarkt .

Already in the first half of the 19th century there was a staircase at this point, the layout of which, according to a plan by Anton Behsel (1825), should have been similar to today's. In 1850 the area was incorporated into the city of Vienna. In 1863/1864 they commissioned the "new production and simultaneous widening of the so-called Amonsstiege". The term "Amons (s) tiege" was apparently in use long before that.

The staircase was named after the Amon family, who owned a house and a butcher's shop near the staircase for about half a century (from approx. 1793 to 1843), at today's location Windmühlgasse 15 / Stiegengasse 20. With the designation "Amonstiege" no deserving person was honored, but it is to be seen in it as an orientation aid from past centuries, in which there were still the confusingly arranged conscription numbers.

Since the stairs were an insurmountable obstacle for people with wheelchairs or prams and the elderly for a long time, the Mariahilfer Grünen applied for a climbing aid to be built in 2000. Due to technical problems, it could not be built, so it was decided to build a public lift system.

On January 27, 2005, the public lift system was put into operation. The glass lift at the Amonstiege cost around 220,000 euros, connects Windmühlgasse with Gumpendorfer Strasse and overcomes a height difference of seven meters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anton Behsel: Vienna cultural heritage. Retrieved on July 26, 2019 (input “Stiegengasse, 6th district” → Historical city maps → Behsel 1825 → Behsel – Mariahilf, Spittelberg 1825).
  2. ^ Günter Oppitz: The Amonstiege in Mariahilf. Backgrounds for the designation of a staircase. Vienna 2018. Accessed July 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lift connects two streets

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 56 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 24 ″  E