Cumberlandstrasse (Vienna)
The Cumberland Street is located in the 14th Vienna district , Penzing . Until 1938 it belonged to the 13th district, Hietzing .
As Felix Czeike notes in his Historisches Lexikon Wien , it was named in 1894 in honor of the 3rd Duke of Cumberland , the last Crown Prince Ernst August Duke of Cumberland, who lived in exile in Austria, and of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Hanover 1845 to 1923 Gmunden). The original Zwerchgasse , then Bahngasse and Feldgasse , became Cumberlandstrasse . It is not located directly on the Cumberland Palace , which the Duke owned until 1920 , but a row of houses to the north. It was named after the suburbs of Vienna were incorporated in 1892 in the course of avoiding the use of multiple traffic area names in the extended urban area.
The street runs south next to the Westbahn from Beckmanngasse in the east to Hadikgasse in the west. The western section is a local main street and was formerly part of the B 222 - Wiener Vororte Straße , which follows the Vienna suburb line . Because of the limited space due to the embankment, there were differences of opinion in the past regarding the design of the street space, which were now resolved by a one-way route and at the end of 2006 by partially replacing the embankment with a retaining wall .
There are two churches on Cumberlandstrasse: at No. 53A, at the corner of Einwanggasse, the Penzing parish church dedicated to St. Jacob and at No. 48 the Evangelical Church of the Cross . The Vienna Penzing train station with S-Bahn service and the Astgasse grammar school are in the immediate vicinity of Cumberlandstrasse .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volume 1, page 599 f.
- ^ Vienna History Wiki. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 32 " N , 16 ° 17 ′ 34" E