Essiggasse (Vienna)
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| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | 1454 at the latest |
| Hist. Names | Little alley by the bathing room |
| Cross streets | Wollzeile, Bäckerstrasse |
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| User groups | pedestrian |
| Road design | Pedestrian zone |
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| Street length | approx. 61 m |
The vinegar alley located on the 1st Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1908 after the vinegar trade. Another Essiggasse in Wien- Landstrasse near Baumgasse was built and no longer exists today.
history
The alley was first used in 1454 as a little alley near the bathing room . On the site of today's house at Wollzeile 11 and Essiggasse 1, there has been a bathing room since the Middle Ages, which existed until around the middle of the 18th century. The alley was only called Essiggasse since 1821 because, according to tradition, the bourgeois vinegar dealer Ferdinand Pichler had his seat there.
Location and characteristics
The Essiggasse runs from Wollzeile in a north-easterly direction to Bäckerstrasse . The narrow and dark, not very attractive alley is run as a pedestrian zone , which forms the only connection between the two parallel streets. The tall buildings on both sides of Essiggasse date from the late Baroque and Classicist periods, but some date back to older eras. The Morawa bookstore has existed here since 1877, and its premises dominate the entire left side of the Essiggasse.
building
No. 1: House of Schaumburg
In the place of a bathing room that already existed in the Middle Ages, at the corner of Wollzeile and Essiggasse, the Schaumburg House was built from 1819 to 1821 according to a design by Jakob Wilhelm in the late classicist style, which was completed by Joseph Kornhäusel after his death . The Morawa bookstore is located in the building. It is located at the main address Wollzeile 11 and is a listed building .
No. 2: To the Roman Emperor
The palais-like baroque corner house Wollzeile / Essiggasse was built for Sebastian Cichini in 1712 and adapted in 1787. This is where the Zum Römischen Kaiser pharmacy, founded in 1782, is located . The side facade to the Essiggasse is kept simpler than the rich main facade and has window roofs here. The building is located at the main address Wollzeile 13 and is a listed building.
No. 3: Palais Seitern
The building on the corner of Bäckerstraße / Essiggasse dates back to the middle of the 16th century and was acquired by the Counts of Fünfkirchen in 1700 and converted into an aristocratic palace, which was then acquired by Franz Karl von Seitern and has been named after him ever since. The palace is a listed building and is located at the main address Bäckerstraße 8.
No. 4: Palais Nimptsch
The Palais at the corner of Bäckerstraße / Essiggasse was originally a Renaissance bourgeois house and came into the possession of Count Nimptsch in 1775 , who had renovations carried out in 1789. In 1838 Adolf Korompay redesigned the facade in the late classicist style. The building is a listed building and is located at the main address Bäckerstraße 10.
literature
- Richard Perger: streets, towers and bastions. The road network of the Vienna City in its development and its name . Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7005-4628-9 , p. 42.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Essiggasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 219-219 ( digitized version ).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 32.2 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 32.4" E