Arenberg Park
The Arenbergpark is a park at Dannebergplatz in Vienna's third district, Landstrasse .
The park, then much larger than it is today, was laid out in 1785 by Prince Nikolaus I Joseph Esterházy and in 1810 became the property of Archduke Karl , who planted rose bushes worth 140,000 guilders here . In 1815 the park was sold to a wool wholesaler and after his death it came into the possession of the Arenberg princes , who gave the complex its name. On May 11, 1900, the municipality of Vienna bought the park and the Palais Arenberg from the estate of Franziska von Arenberg, b. Liechtenstein (Vienna October 30, 1833 to June 6, 1894 Vienna, Hacking Castle , married to Joseph von Arenberg, August 8, 1833 to October 30, 1896).
The community then had the edge areas of the park parceled out and built by private builders from 1906–1908 and laid new roads, which made the park area significantly smaller. So that was Neulinggasse of Ungargasse extended up to the park and seemed to this section in 1909 for the first time in Lehmann on. The road bordering the park to the south and west, access to the houses built on the edge of the park, was called the Arenbergring in 1906 and renamed Dannebergplatz in 1949 .
The park had been open to the public since September 16, 1900 and was reopened on September 19, 1907 after being expanded and redesigned. Only an octagonal pavilion on Neulinggasse and another in a back yard between Ungargasse and Charasgasse remained of the original layout . In 1915 the so-called Scherzo group , a bronze sculpture by Josef Müllner, was set up, which depicts a boy with panthers . But it was stolen and was renewed in 1920. She later moved to Schwarzenbergplatz and in 1948 to Modenapark .
During the Second World War , two flak towers were built in the park in 1942/43, which still shape its image today. After the war ended, the park was repaired by architect Viktor Mödlhammer and reopened on September 20, 1950. The larger tower is used by the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) as a warehouse (as of June 2018). After the failure of an IT company, the City of Vienna is looking for a user for the smaller, the control tower, as the owner.
In the park there has been a memorial plaque for Robert Danneberg since 1992 , after whom the square around the park is named, and at the kindergarten on the edge of the park there is the play sculpture Bear by Josef Schagerl junior . In 1958, the Palais Arenberg, adjoining the park to the east, at Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 96, where the city's youth welfare office was last housed, was demolished in order to be able to extend the Neulinggasse that borders the park to the north .
literature
- Alfred Auer (Ed.): Vienna - City in the Green. Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7141-6453-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arenbergpark: Flak tower without usage concept orf.at, June 25, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 54 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 28 ″ E