Boltzmanngasse
The Boltzmanngasse is a street in the 9th district of Vienna Alsergrund . It is curved and sloping from Währinger Strasse to Alserbachstrasse, where it meets Liechtensteinstrasse.
history
The land, largely undeveloped until the 18th century, on which Boltzmanngasse is located today, was called "Schottenpoint". At the confluence with Währinger Strasse, the Dietrichstein Gardens had been located since 1690, and opposite the “Bäckenhäusel”, which had served as a hospital and convalescent house since the middle of the 17th century. Emperor Charles VI. had the Spanish hospital built in 1717 . Today's Boltzmanngasse was known as Spitalberggasse or "Am Spanischen Spital", after 1820 mainly as Karlsgasse, after Emperor Karl VI. The Spanish Hospital was no longer needed after the opening of the General Hospital by Emperor Joseph II and was rededicated as an orphanage, after which the street was named "Waisenhausgasse". Until the suburbs of Vienna were incorporated in 1850, the alley belonged to the municipality of Alservorstadt . The Bäckenhäusel was closed in 1868 and the building was taken over by the Tobacco Director and demolished in 1907. Between 1908 and 1915 the Chemical and Physical Institutes of the University of Vienna were built in its place , and in 1913 the street was named after Ludwig Boltzmann .
course
The Boltzmanngasse is crossed by a single cross street, the Strudlhofgasse. The buildings are mixed: from the 18th to the 21st century, different shapes and styles are represented; however, historicist buildings from the 2nd half of the 19th century predominate .
No. 1, 3 and 5: Chemical and Physical Institutes
The mighty complex of chemical and physical institutes covers the entire block between Boltzmanngasse, Währinger Strasse and Strudlhofgasse. The building was erected by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Public Works . The facades are structured by a sparse decor in the Neoempire style . On the triangular forecourt (since 2017 Ehrenhaft-Steindler-Platz ) in front of the main entrance to the former Second Chemical Institute (today the Institute for Organic, Analytical, Biological and Food Chemistry and Chemical Catalysis) there is a monument to Carl Auer von Welsbach . The Institute for Radium Research founded by Stefan Meyer was located at Boltzmanngasse 3 . Today there are facilities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and the Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics.
No. 2 and 4: suburban houses
Opposite the university institutes are two suburban houses from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which border the gardens of the Palais Clam-Gallas (formerly Dietrichstein).
No. 7 and 9: Spanish Hospital and Church of Santa Maria de Mercede
The former Spanish hospital now houses the seminary and the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics .
No. 14 Pazmaneum
No. 16 Former Consular Academy
The kk Consular went from that of Maria Theresa founded the Oriental Academy out. The palace, built in 1903/04 by Ludwig Baumann in the form of Maria Theresian Baroque, was moved into in 1904 by the Consular Academy, which was previously housed in the Theresianum . After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938, the Consular Academy was closed. After the Second World War, the building was handed over to the American occupation forces; the embassy of the United States of America has been located there since 1947 .
For security reasons, Boltzmanngasse in front of the embassy has been closed to vehicle traffic since 1998. It is therefore not continuously passable, but it is open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
literature
- Dehio Vienna. II. To IX. and XX. District . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 410 .
- Wilhelm Kisch : The old streets and squares of Vienna's suburbs and their historically interesting houses: a contribution to the cultural history of Vienna with regard to patriotic art, architecture, music and literature : digitized at the Vienna Library in the City Hall
Web links
- Boltzmanngasse in theVienna History Wiki ofthe City ofVienna
- History of the Consular Academy at Boltzmanngasse 16 , published by the Embassy of the United States in Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Bäckenhäusel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Maria Fekter : the duration of the closure of Boltzmanngasse in Vienna 9th, Alsergrund , answer to a parliamentary question of 9 September 2010