Bruckhaufen

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The island of Bruckhaufen on a map from 1821 (top center)
View from the Danube Tower to Bruckhaufen
St. Elisabeth, Kugelfanggasse 31
Mosque, Am Bruckhaufen 3

Bruckhaufen is a part of the Floridsdorf district in the city of Vienna . Before the Danube regulation in Vienna, Haufen was the name for gravel and sand islands, Bruckhaufen initially referred to an island between two bridges. The field name was then transferred to the settlement created here.

geography

To the south and east, the Donauturmstrasse forms the border with the Donaustadt district . To the west, the district is bounded by the Donauuferautobahn with the accompanying road Am Bruckhaufen and the express train with the accompanying road Am Nordbahndamm . In the north lies the Old Danube with the Angelibad and the Eisenbahnerbad on Arbeiterstrandbadstrasse. Between the baths there is a public storage area, named in memory of the traveling peoples with Roma Platz, Lovara Weg and Sinti Weg.

history

With the Danube breakthrough as part of the Danube regulation, the Bruckhaufen became part of a large island between the new main stream and the Old Danube , the land was owned by Klosterneuburg Monastery . From 1871 the Kagran military shooting range existed on the island , the street name Kugelfanggasse still reminds of the former 100 m long and eleven meter high bullet trap dam.

An urban rubbish dump was also created on the island, which was used until the 1960s.

After Floridsdorf was incorporated into the city of Vienna in 1905, a recreation area and water sports area with a settlement with bathing huts and allotment gardens developed on the Bruckhaufen. Permanent dwellings were also built, despite the building ban. The residents saw themselves as part of the settler movement and organized themselves in 1925 in the "Donauland" association. At the end of the 1920s, the settlement was legalized through a change in the zoning plan . In 1935 the city of Vienna bought the land from Klosterneuburg Abbey.

The rapid transit station Vienna Strandbäder on the Nordbahndamm was built for the development of Bruckhaufen on the occasion of the Vienna International Garden Show WIG 64 in the Danube Park in 1964, and closed again in 2000 after the U6 station Neue Donau was opened.

Religious institutions

The mosque of the Islamic Center is located by the green bridge that covers the Danube bank motorway . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth is in Kugelfanggasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Bruckhaufen. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , pp. 475–476 ( entry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna).
  2. ↑ a b c Lilli Lička, Ulrike Krippner: 50 years Donaupark: urban planning vision and dimension. (= Study of the urban planning visions and strategies that led to the realization of the Vienna International Garden Show WIG 64 and the establishment of the Danube Park. ) Ed .: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Institute for Landscape Architecture; on behalf of Municipal Department 18 - Urban Development and Planning. Vienna, 2011, pp. 7–8, 14–15 ( report online on the City of Vienna website (PDF; 4.85 MB)).
  3. ↑ Thomas Kohlwein: Former stops: Lido . (No longer available online.) In: www.schnellbahn-wien.at. 2008, archived from the original on February 8, 2009 ; Retrieved September 16, 2009 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '  N , 16 ° 24'  E