Auer-Welsbach-Park

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Auer-Welsbach-Park
The gray poplar, protected as a natural monument
Special kindergarten Swiss donation

The Auer-Welsbach-Park is a park in the 15th  Viennese district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and is bordered by Linker Wienzeile , Schönbrunner Schlossallee, Mariahilfer Straße and Winckelmannstraße. With an area of ​​around 110,000 m², it is the largest park in the 15th district. It is named after the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach .

Originally there was a so-called “kitchen garden” on the area of ​​today's Auer-Welsbach-Park, in which fruit and vegetables were grown. In 1890 a park was created at this point under the name Schönbrunner Vorpark at the time . The park was designed with a small pond in the style of an English landscape garden as a contrast to the baroque appearance of the Schönbrunn Palace Park on the other side of the Vienna River . A children's outdoor pool was built on the site of the pond in 1919 , which was closed and demolished in 1990. On this subsequently fallow part of the park, a “city wilderness” developed. In 2003 the flame women sculptures Sarah and Johanna (see list of works of art in public space in Vienna ) by artist Charlotte Seidl were installed here.

Until 1992 the park belonged to the 14th district of Penzing , then it came to the 15th district as part of a border change.

The special kindergarten Schweizerspende located in the northwestern area of ​​the park was built in 1948/49 according to plans by the architect Franz Schuster , later expanded by Dimitris Manikas and is now a listed building . In 1949, Susann Schmid-Giovannini set up the first special kindergarten for the hearing impaired in the German-speaking area.

In the southeast area of ​​the park there is a gray poplar (Populus × canescens), which is protected as a Viennese natural monument with the number 444 . The gray poplar comes from the time before the park was established and is probably the last remnant of the original woodland of the Wien River in this area. The Auer-Welsbach-Park youth sports facility in the park has a size of around 25,400 m² and offers handball, fistball and athletics, among others. In the south-western area of ​​the park there is an unfenced, 10,060 m² dog area .

The sculpture "Virgen del Tesoro" by the Austrian artist Johanna Honisch is located in the northern area of ​​the park. In a four meter high black pine tree trunk, based on the depiction of the Madonna of the same name in a church in Toledo , small copper plates were hammered.

Web links

Commons : Auer-Welsbach-Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Law on a change in the border between the 14th and 15th district. (PDF; 436 kB). In: Provincial Law Gazette for Vienna. March 9, 1992, accessed February 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).
  3. ↑ Natural monuments in the 15th district ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).
  4. ↑ Auer-Welsbach-Park youth sports facility.
  5. ^ Dog zones in Vienna - dog runs.
  6. ^ Johanna Honisch: Virgen del Tesoro. In: Johanna Honisch. Johanna Honisch, October 1, 2019, accessed on February 5, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 4.1 ″  E