Babenbergerstrasse (Vienna)
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| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner city |
| Created | 1863 |
| Connecting roads | Mariahilfer Strasse (southwest) |
| Cross streets | Burgring , Elisabethstrasse , Nibelungengasse, Getreidemarkt , Museumplatz |
| Buildings | Art History Museum , former Ministry of Defense |
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| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrians , bus routes 2A, 57A |
| Road design | avenue |
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| Street length | approx. 200 meters |
The Babenbergerstraße located on the 1st Vienna district , Inner City . It was named in 1863 after the first Austrian ruling family, the Babenbergs , who were margraves from 976 to 1156 and dukes of Austria from 1156 to 1246 . They had moved their residence to Vienna in 1156. Since then, Vienna has been the capital of Austria.
history
The area of today's Babenbergerstraße belonged to the suburb in front of the Widmertor in the Middle Ages. The Martinspital was located in the area of today's intersection of Babenbergerstrasse / Getreidemarkt . The street had been part of the glacis in front of the Vienna city wall since the 16th century . After it was razed in 1858, the street was built as an extension of Mariahilfer Strasse as a connection to the new Ringstrasse and named Babenbergerstrasse in 1863 .
Location and characteristics
Babenbergerstraße runs behind the Kunsthistorisches Museum from the Burgring in a south-westerly direction out of town to the Getreidemarkt or Museumplatz. The crossing street is semi-officially called Zweierlinie , formerly freight street . From there, Mariahilfer Strasse continues as a continuation of Babenbergerstrasse into the western districts of Vienna. The border of the 1st district runs directly on the house front of the corner house to the Getreidemarkt; the intersection itself is partly in the 6th, partly in the 7th district.
Babenbergerstrasse is lined on both sides of the street by a double row of avenue trees. A bike path runs on both sides. Public transport on Babenbergerstraße is the bus lines 2A and 57A, on the bounding streets the tram lines 1, 2, 71 and D on the Ringstraße and the underground line U2 under the double line, each with stops and stations at Babenbergerstraße.
At the intersection of Babenbergerstrasse and the two-way line, there is a pedestrian passage with a few shops, from which you can reach the Museumsquartier underground station . (Until 1980 the tram lines E2, G2 and H2 operated in the tunnel.) At the other end of Babenbergerstraße there was also a pedestrian passage under the Ringstraße, the Babenberger Passage , built in 1961 by architect Adolf Hoch , which has not been used as a passage since 2002. A discotheque has been located here since 2003. (Until the late 1980s, the end of the tram lines 52 and 58, which ran through Babenbergerstraße and Mariahilfer Straße, was at the junction between Ring and Babenbergerstraße, and until 1966 also line 57, which was then replaced by a bus line, to Gumpendorfer Straße.)
With the exception of No. 9, the building on Babenbergerstrasse is uniformly in the early historical style. The entire northwest side of the street is taken up by the rear of the Kunsthistorisches Museum , which opened in 1891 . On the left side of the street there are residential and office buildings with restaurants and shops on the ground floor. A high proportion of the traffic on Babenbergerstrasse consists of pedestrians, including many tourists, as museums and Mariahilfer Strasse, the city's most important shopping street, are in the immediate vicinity.
building
No. 1 and 3: residential and commercial building
The two houses No. 1 and 3 form a single, early historic building block between Burgring and Elisabethstraße , which is free on three sides. It was built in 1862 for the banker Jonas Freiherr von Königswarter according to plans by Johann Romano vonringen and August Schwendenwein von Lonauberg . The block has a wide central projectile with pilasters and arched windows as well as equally designed beveled corner projections, which also have balconies. Between the risalits there are additively structured gable windows and an attic balustrade along the entire roof . Both entrances are pilasted and have ribbed vaults.
No. 2: Kunsthistorisches Museum
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The building of the Art History Museum was built from 1871 to 1891 by Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer and Gottfried Semper in the neo-Renaissance style. It is one of the most outstanding monumental buildings in the Ringstrasse ensemble and houses one of the most important art collections in the world. The main portal is located at Maria-Theresien-Platz , the management can be reached from the side entrance at Burgring 5.
The rear of the museum is on Babenbergerstrasse. In accordance with Semper's conception, sculptures representing the classical antiquity were installed here. On the mezzanine floor are the side seated figures art industry and architecture by Carl Kundmann , the keystone heads of Trophonios , Hephaestus and Agamedes are by Rudolf Weyr . On the upper floor there are statues of ancient art patrons, on the left Augustus and Alexander the Great by Josef Tautenhayn , in the middle Perikles and Peisistratos by Vincenz Pilz and on the right Polykrates and Minyas again by Josef Tautenhayn. On the attic balustrade are the statues of artists: on the left Dioscurides and Athenodoros by Julius Donath, Apelles and Lysippos by Alois Düll , in the middle Praxiteles and Skopas by Franz Koch, Aristotle , Pythagoras , Polyklet and Phidias by Vincenz Pilz, on the right Polygnot by Thasus and Kanachos from Sikyon by K. Rippel, Bularchos by Vincenz Pilz and Theodoros von Samos by K. Rippel.
No. 5: Former Ministry of Defense
Built by Carl Schumann in the early historical style in 1864/1865 , the building was originally a residential building for the kk, private Austrian State Railway Company . After the settlement with Hungary in 1867, which provided for separate territorial forces in addition to the joint Austro-Hungarian army , the unofficial Landwehr Ministry , known as the Imperial and Royal Ministry of National Defense, was established here, which administered the Imperial and Royal Landwehr of Cisleithania and existed until 1918. Today various government agencies are housed here.
The building between Elisabethstrasse and Nibelungengasse is free-standing on three sides. The raised central risalit, structured by columns and caryatids, catches the eye. The corners are bevelled, the windows in between are suspected. The entrance leads into a richly structured vestibule with Ionic columns , aedicules , medallions of genius, stucco ceiling and tiled floor. Griffins can be seen on the staircase railing.
This is where the Babenbergerhof café was located, for which Oscar Larsen created a wall fresco in 1925 depicting the legend of the veil (legend of the canonized Babenberger Leopold III ). It was restored by Othmar Pokorny in 1965.
No. 7: corner house
The corner house built in 1869/1870 by Ferdinand Fellner the Elder in the neo-renaissance style is at the main address Nibelungengasse 15.
No. 9: Former Kuoni travel agency
The Kuoni travel agency, located on the corner of the Getreidemarkt , was designed in 1980 by the architects Otto Kapfinger and Adolf Krischanitz (Missing Link). Today the branch of a supermarket chain is located there.
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Babenbergerstrasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 220 ( digitized version ).
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City , Berger Verlag, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 45.9 ″ E