Auwinkel
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner city |
| Created | 1862 |
| Cross streets | Postgasse, Dominican Bastion |
| Buildings | Main Post Office |
| use | |
| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrians |
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| Street length | 43 meters |
Auwinkel is the name of a street in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . Originally the area was called Im Sauwinkel .
history
In the Middle Ages until 1349, the area of today's alley was counted as part of the old meat market and consisted of a few houses built onto the curtain wall , facing the rear of the St. Laurenz monastery. In 1369 the name Hinter St. Laurenz unter den Hafnern is documented, in 1486 inside the wall on the Piber tower , and in 1514 opposite the Meierhof of St. Lorenzen . At the site of the Auwinkel 3 parcel, the beaver gate with the beaver tower stood until 1561, the ring wall curved here from east to south.
At the place of Hafnersteig 7 and Franz-Josephs-Kai 17 there was a pig slaughterhouse, which was occupied in 1566 and 1587, which is why the area of today's Gasse and the part of Postgasse between Auwinkel and Fleischmarkt as well as a row of houses between the ring wall and Kurtine Im Sauwinkel (already occupied 1547) was mentioned. It stayed that way in 1710 and 1766, before the name was apparently perceived as offensive and, from 1786, was instead renamed Auwinkel . A similar process of renaming Sauwinkel to Auwinkel is also taking place in the 12th district of Budapest . This has nothing to do with an Au, as there never was one at this point.
When the beaver gate and the beaver tower were demolished in 1561 and the beaver bastion was built instead, the access to the bastion ran over the area of today's alley, which can still be guessed today by a rise in terrain between Auwinkel 3 and 4. In the group of houses that formed in the 17th century, those houses facing Auwinkel 3 on Bibergasse and those facing Auwinkel 4 on Auwinkel were counted since 1862. Only with the demolition of this group of houses and that of the block between Postgasse, Dominikanerbastei, Bibergasse and Auwinkel in 1897–1904 did the Bibergasse disappear and the Auwinkel received its current course, whereby the old name was retained. The part of the old Auwinkel that had reached the meat market had already come to Postgasse in 1862.
Location and characteristics
The Auwinkel is a short alley that runs from Postgasse in an easterly direction to the Dominican Bastion. It is run as a one-way street ; the other half of the lane consists of an exit to an underground car park. There is no public transport here, car and bicycle traffic are low, as is the number of pedestrians.
On the south side of the alley, the building consists of different wings of the early historical main post office building, on the north side of a late historical and a modern house.
building
No. 1 residential building
The vacant lot resulting from the destruction of the war was closed by a modern residential building designed by the architect Franz Suppinger in 1952. It is at the main address Postgasse 14.
No. 2, 4 main post
Both buildings are early historical additions to the heterogeneous complex of the main post office, which is at the main address Postgasse 8-10.
No. 3 residential building
The historicist corner house was built in 1899 according to plans by Ludwig A. Fuchsik in the form of the Viennese Neo-Renaissance . It is at the main address Dominikanerbastei 17.
literature
- Richard Perger: streets, towers and bastions. The road network of the Vienna City in its development and its name . Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1991. ISBN 3-7005-4628-9 , pp. 17-18
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Auwinkel. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 215 ( digitized version ).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 47 ″ E