Colosseum (Brigittenau)

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The Colosseum was from the 1830s to 1842, a dance and amusement in what was then Vienna suburb Brigittenau (since 1850 the second, since 1900 the 20th district). The place was on an island of the still unregulated Danube on the route from the walled city ​​of Vienna to the left bank of the Danube and further into the northern and northeastern areas of the Austrian Empire .

The establishment was located at today's corner of Jägerstraße 82 / Zrinyigasse 15 in an area that was largely undeveloped at the time, far north of the center of Brigittenau.

Built and elegantly furnished by Anton Czermak, wine merchant in the old town in 1828, the restaurant, not yet called the Colosseum at the time and initially only intended for closed societies, had to contend with a lot of competition in the Biedermeier suburbs of Vienna and therefore did not flourish properly. Czermak therefore sold it on June 1, 1834 to the architect Carl Hör (or Hoer), who, according to Czeike , provided amusements and amusements that changed over and over again, thereby significantly increasing the frequency. Hör called his business initially Rural Tivoli , later Colosseum (1839: Colossum ), and ran the business until the end of June 1842.

The Coloss , which gave the establishment its memorable name, was a giant elephant that was built from wood, straw and paper mache and could hold 50 people. Among others, Joseph Lanner played with his orchestra in the “Colosseum” .

In 1840 Carl Hör had Vienna's first “mass transport” built, the Brigittenau Railway , a horse-drawn railway. It drove a distance of approx. 1.8 km from the Danube Canal near the old town to the Colosseum, opened to the public for the first time on July 2, 1840. It was opened when the Colosseum closed on Peter and Paul’s Day , June 29, 1842, discontinued, sold the transportable inventory.

At that time, Carl Hör was already working on his next project, which was closer to the old town, the Universum amusement park, which opened in 1843 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Walter Krobot, Josef Otto Slezak, Hans Sternhart: Tram in Vienna - the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow , Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-900134-00-6 , p. 14f.
  2. ↑ Joseph Ritter von Seyfried: Non-profit and exhilarating house calendar for the Austrian Empire ... 1839 , Anton Strauss's sel. Widow, Vienna 1839, p. 137
  3. ^ Wien.gv.at - History of the area around the Nordwestbahnhof, Colosseum
  4. ^ Colosseum in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 753, keyword Colosseum
  6. ^ Wiener Zeitung , June 29, 1842, p. 1330

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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 18.3 ″  E