Exhibition and shopping center
The exhibition and shopping center in Vienna's 3rd district , Landstrasse , better known as AEZ , was one of the first shopping centers in Vienna.
It was built in 1957 on the covering of the Hauptzollamt light rail station , renamed Landstrasse in 1962 in the course of the opening of the express train , today Wien Mitte / Landstrasse station, along the Weiskirchnerstrasse - Stubenbrücke - Landstrasse Hauptstrasse street according to plans by Josef Wöhnhart . Shops were housed on three floors connected by escalators (at that time the longest escalator in Austria). There was a hotel and covered parking spaces on the fourth floor, as well as the uncovered fifth floor (a total of 110 cars). The cars were brought up in an automatic elevator . From the ground floor you could also go directly down to the platform of the main express train line and the Pressburger Bahn .
For decades from the opening of the AEZ's ballroom, the radio program “ Drivers on the Road” was broadcast live every lunchtime with an audience.
In the 1990s, the AEZ was closed because it was no longer attractive enough for buyers and could not be adapted. In 2000, the cinema and adventure center W3 was built in its place .
Web links
- AEZ shopping center. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 4, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 20 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 2 ″ E