Ballhausplatz

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Ballhausplatz
Vienna - Inner City District, Wappen.svg
Place in Vienna's inner city
Ballhausplatz
Ballhausplatz with the Federal Chancellery (left), the Ministry of the Interior (center) and the Hofburg (right)
Basic data
place Vienna Inner City
District Inner city
Confluent streets Löwelstrasse , Heldenplatz , Schauflergasse, Bruno-Kreisky-Gasse
Buildings Federal Chancellery , Hofburg
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic

The Ballhausplatz is a historical place in the first district of Vienna Inner City . It is located between the Volksgarten , the Federal Chancellery , the Hofburg and Heldenplatz . The word Ballhausplatz is a metonymy for the Austrian Federal Government and the office of Federal Chancellor, comparable to the meaning of Downing Street in the United Kingdom . For centuries Ballhausplatz was also a synonym for the Austrian Foreign Ministry , which resided there for 286 years.

Surname

The name comes from various ball houses that stood here from 1741 to 1903. As early as 1521, the later Emperor Ferdinand I introduced the ball game in Vienna, a pre-form of today's badminton , which soon enjoyed great popularity among aristocrats .

Previously, the bakery of the Minorite monastery , the house of the provincial and an imperial dairy farm were located here.

Present function

South-eastern part of Ballhausplatz with the presidential office

Today Ballhausplatz is Austria's center of political power, as institutions such as the Federal Chancellery and the Federal Presidential Chancellery are located here . The building of the Federal Chancellery was built from 1717 to 1719 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt as the "Secret Court Chancellery" and served until 1918 as the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry.

Due to its political importance, the Ballhausplatz is now a preferred meeting place and center for political movements such as demonstrations, rallies and protests. Striking events in this square were the triumphant return of Karl Schranz after his expulsion from the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , who appeared on the balcony of the Federal Chancellery together with Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and was enthusiastically welcomed by thousands of fans, the massive protests against the inauguration of the Black-blue coalition on February 4, 2000, which meant that the new government had to go through an underground passage to the Hofburg for the swearing-in ceremony .

In October 2014 was Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice by Olaf Nicolai by Federal President Heinz Fischer officially unveiled in a ceremony after numerous representatives of the Austrian to civil society through speeches or her presence for the complete rehabilitation of all Nazi deserters had expressed .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ballhausplatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Schneider : Win the subjunctive. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2009, p. 179.
  2. ^ Manfred B. Sellner: headline / headline. A contrastive study on the current imagery of large format and boulevard. In: Flag Words of Politics. Continuities and breaks. Böhlau, Wien 1998, pp. 33–54, on p. 38.
  3. ↑ diepresse.com - Blue X as a late honor for deserters . Article dated October 24, 2014, accessed October 25, 2014.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '29.2 "  N , 16 ° 21' 49.3"  E