Bösendorferstrasse
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner city |
| Created | 1861 |
| Hist. Names | Giselastrasse |
| Connecting roads | Elisabethstrasse |
| Cross streets | Kärntner Strasse , Akademiestrasse , Dumbastrasse , Canovagasse |
| Places | Musikvereinplatz |
| Buildings | Handelsakademie I, Künstlerhaus Wien , Wiener Musikverein , Palais Lützow, Hotel Imperial |
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| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrians |
| Road design | one way street |
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| Street length | approx. 297 meters |
The Bösendorferstraße located on the 1st Viennese district of Inner City . It was named in 1919 after the piano maker Ludwig Bösendorfer .
history
In the Middle Ages, the area of today's Bösendorferstrasse belonged to the suburb in front of the Kärntner Tor . The glacis had stretched in front of the Vienna city wall since the 16th century . After its demolition, the vacated areas and the glacis were built as planned. In the course of this, this street was laid out in 1861 and was named Giselastraße , after Gisela of Austria , a daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph . After the end of the monarchy, Giselastraße was renamed Bösendorferstraße in 1919, as Ludwig Bösendorfer had just died that year and he had a connection to the music club building on this street .
Location and characteristics
Bösendorferstraße runs parallel between Kärntner Ring and Karlsplatz and extends from Kärntner Straße in the west to Canovagasse in the east. It is run as a one-way street . Tram tracks run between Kärntner Straße and Akademiestraße in Bösendorferstraße, which are part of a reversing loop (the last stop on line J until 2008). However, there is no regular scheduled service here. The construction dates from the decade 1860–1870 in the early historical style (in transition to strict historicism ). Several extraordinary monumental buildings have their back or side fronts facing Bösendorferstrasse. Only in the section between Kärntner Straße and Akademiestraße are there a few restaurants and shops.
Building
No. 1 corner house
The corner house at Kärntner Strasse / Bösendorferstrasse was built in the early historical style in 1860–1861 by Johann Romano von Rings and August Schwendenwein von Lonauberg . The facade is accentuated by a corner projection . On the side facing Kärntner Straße there are balconies to the side and in the middle at the level of the bel étage. The windows are suspected to be straight or segment-gable. The entrance is structured by pilasters .
No. 2 corner house
The opposite corner house at Kärntner Strasse / Bösendorferstrasse was built in 1861 by Eduard Kuschée in an early historical style. The base zone is no longer original. The facade of the upper floors has a great clarity and uniformity, which is achieved through the additive arrangement of the windows (gable roofing on the second floor, otherwise suspected). The corner bay window that runs across all upper floors and rests on a column is remarkable. The portal on the side of Bösendorferstrasse is roofed over by a stone balcony. Parts of the interior design of the former Otto Kaserer restaurant date from the mid-20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, this house was also home to the Paul Hopfner restaurant, a popular meeting place for officers of the Austro-Hungarian Army from the nearby Sirk corner with an "artist's hall" designed by the architect Joseph Urban and a separate entrance room . The last relic, an Art Nouveau entrance door on Bösendorferstrasse, was destroyed in 2018 as part of a renovation.
No. 3 residential building
The house was built in 1860 by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein; however, the facade is no longer preserved. The architect Adolf Loos lived here from 1903 to 1933 . The living room and fireplace room from this apartment is now in the Wien Museum. A plaque next to the entrance commemorates Loos.
No. 4, 6 duplex
The two similarly designed houses were built in the Neo-Renaissance style by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein in 1869–1870 . The center of the building is accentuated by banded pilaster strips and a large segmented gable above the portal. The entrance is structured by pilasters. At house number 4 there are two memorial plaques for the German communist Walter Barth , who was shot here in 1945 when he tried to join the Red Army.
No. 5 residential building
The building was erected in the early historical style in 1860–1861 by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein. The simple facade has windows in rows with straight roofs, two side risalits protrude only very flat. The foyer is divided by pilasters.
No. 7 corner house
The corner house Bösendorferstrasse / Akademiestrasse was built in 1868–1869 by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein in the form of the Viennese Neo-Renaissance. The rows of windows are designed differently on each floor (aedicula, segmented gable, straight roof). A corner project accentuates the facade. The foyer is divided by pilasters. There are Art Nouveau windows in the staircase. Several historicist and secessionist stucco ceilings have been preserved in the apartment on the first floor; a wood-paneled vestibule with a fireplace dates from the beginning of the 20th century.
No. 8 Commercial Academy I
The building of the Viennese merchants built by Ferdinand Fellner the Elder from 1860–1862 was the first public building in the Ringstrasse zone. It was created in the spirit of late romantic historicism and, viewed from Karlsplatz, forms an important ensemble with an artists' house and music association.
The building is at the main address, Akademiestraße 12.
No. 9 corner house
The corner house at Akademiestraße / Bösendorferstraße was built in 1869 by Friedrich Schachner in the style of the Viennese Neo-Renaissance. The facade is characterized by the high rusticated base zone and the differently layered gable windows. The side facing Akademiestraße has a corner projectile, on the side of Bösendorferstraße there is the pilaster-framed portal with spandreled figures and a broken segmented arched gable. The entrance is structured by pilasters and arcades. There are pawlats in the inner courtyard . Several stucco ceilings have been preserved on the first floor.
No. 10 artist house
→ see main article Künstlerhaus Wien
The artist house between Karlsplatz, Akademiestrasse, Bösendorferstrasse and Musikvereinsplatz was built by August Weber in 1865–1868 . It is one of the most important monumental buildings in the Ringstrasse zone. The rear of the building is located on Bösendorferstrasse and consists of a main building, two side pavilions and the connecting wings.
The building is at the main address, Karlsplatz 5.
No. 11 through
The building was built in 1862 by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein in an early historical style. The rear front on Bösendorferstrasse is characterized by pilaster-framed windows and a shallow central projection with balconies.
The house is at the main address Kärntner Ring 12.
No. 12 Musikverein
→ see main article Wiener Musikverein
The building of the Wiener Musikverein is one of the most important monumental buildings in the Ringstrasse zone. It was built from 1867–1870 by Theophil von Hansen in neo-Renaissance forms. On Bösendorferstrasse is a side of the concert hall with access to the concert box office.
The building is at the main address Musikvereinsplatz 1.
No. 13 Former Lützow Palace
The Palais Lützow was built by Carl von Hasenauer in 1870–1872 as the last building on Bösendorferstrasse for the art historian Karl von Lützow in neo-Renaissance style. The monumental U-shaped palace forms a shared inner courtyard with the house at Kärntner Ring 14. Later changes were made in 1900 in the stairwell in the late historical style by Rene Piot, as well as in 1935 for the Italian cultural institute by Gio Ponti in the foyer, and in 1939 during the redesign for the Anglo-Elementar Versicherungs-AG . 1978–1983 a renovation took place.
The facade consists of a high, embossed base zone with suspected windows and a three-axis Tuscan portico that supports the balcony on the first floor . Above the middle window of the portico there is a keystone with a female mask, above the mezzanine windows on the side there is keystone with lion masks. On the side facade in Dumbastraße is another portal with a female keystone mask and above it a balcony on consoles. The smooth upper zone is accentuated in the center by a window with a segmented pedicle bearing a heraldic cartouche, a crown and two reclining figures. The windows on the first floor consist of Ionic column aedicules, those on the floor above have segmented gable roofs. The corner of the house is square in stone and has a heraldic cartouche. The building is crowned by an attic balustrade.
The interior design is also important, such as the aforementioned foyer and staircase. On the first floor there is a white stucco ballroom in neo-rococo shapes. The conference table and chairs were created in 1940 based on the model of the Berlin Reich Chancellery. There are two salons next to it. All three rooms are richly furnished with chimneys, gilded wall chandeliers, mirror vaults, white doors with carved ornaments and ivory-covered handles, parquet floors and stucco wall panels.
No. 15 Hotel Imperial
→ see main article Hotel Imperial (Vienna)
The building was erected in 1862–1865 by Arnold Zenetti and Heinrich Adam as the Palais Archduke Philipp von Württemberg and converted into the Hotel Imperial in 1872–1873 by Ludwig Tischler and Carl Gangolf Kayser . The important, lavishly furnished building is designed in the neo-renaissance style. In 1928 it was increased by two floors. The Soviet military administration was located here between 1945 and 1955. The back of the building is on Bösendorferstrasse.
The main address of the hotel is Kärntner Ring 16.
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 , p. 26
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Bösendorferstrasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 431 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City . Verlag Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , pp. 656-657
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 4.4 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 16.1" E