Fahnengasse
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | in the middle ages |
| Newly designed | 1913 |
| Hist. Names | Liechtensteinisches Gässchen, Brunngässl, Brunngasse, Brunnengasse |
| Connecting roads | Haarhof |
| Cross streets | Herrengasse , Wallnerstrasse |
| Buildings | Herrengasse high-rise |
| use | |
| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrians , underground line U3 |
| Road design | one way street |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | approx. 53 m |
The flags alley located on the 1st Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1898 after the so-called flag turmoil that had taken place a hundred years earlier in the immediate vicinity, in the French embassy on Wallnerstrasse.
history
Fahnengasse used to be a little further south than it is today, in the area of Wallnerstrasse 3 and Herrengasse 8. In the Middle Ages, it was considered part of Wallnerstrasse. In 1770 it was a cul-de-sac as Liechtensteinisches Gässchen ; the name referred to the Palais Liechtenstein located here . Since 1786 people have spoken of Brunngässl or Brunngasse because in the Middle Ages there was a well house here that belonged to the bathing room Die Kanzlerin .
In April 1798 the French ambassador in Vienna, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte , hoisted the flag of the French Revolution during a festival . This was taken as a provocation and a large demonstration quickly broke out, with the population gathering in front of the building and finally storming it. Bernadotte had to leave the city. In 1798, Brunngasse was renamed Fahnengasse to commemorate the tumult surrounding the French flag. When the Liechtenstein Palace was demolished in 1913, the alley was relocated to its current location.
Location and characteristics
The short Fahnengasse runs from Herrengasse in a north-easterly direction to Wallnerstrasse. One lane is accessible for cars as a one-way street in the opposite direction, while the rest of the lane is reserved for pedestrians.
The subway line U3 with the station Herrengasse runs under Fahnengasse . One of the exits to the subway is in the middle of Fahnengasse.
There are restaurants and shops in Fahnengasse. Numerous tourists, together with the local population who work here, form a relatively large number of pedestrians.
The buildings on Fahnengasse date from the first half of the 20th century and are a listed building .
Buildings
No. 1: Herrenhof
The free-standing building block between Herrengasse, Fahnengasse, Wallnerstraße and Leopold-Figl-Gasse was built in 1913 by Viktor Siedek in neoclassical style. The building housed the Café Herrenhof , a well-known artists' meeting place until 2006 , and the school of the reform pedagogue Eugenie Schwarzwald until 1938 . Today the whole house is a hotel. It is at the main address at Herrengasse 10.
No. 2: high-rise
→ see also the main article in the Herrengasse tower block
This is where the Liechtenstein Winter Riding School was once located, which was converted into a concert hall in 1872, which existed as the Bösendorfer Hall until the building was demolished in 1913 and which, thanks to its good acoustics, was used by numerous prominent artists. The instead planned construction of Wilhelminian style houses failed, which meant that the square lay fallow for a long time. During the First Republic, a project for the first skyscraper in Vienna finally came about, which was not without controversy. Because of its location in the middle of Vienna's inner city, a prestigious building with a height of 50 meters was finally realized, which the architects Siegfried Theiss and Hans Jaksch designed with the help of Rudolf Saliger between 1931 and 1932. The building, which was inhabited by numerous celebrities, is located between Herrengasse, Fahnengasse and Wallnerstraße; the main address is Herrengasse 6–8.
Herrengasse underground station
→ see also main article Herrengasse subway station
The Herrengasse underground station on the U3 underground line is located directly under Fahnengasse between Wallnerstraße and Minoritenplatz . It opened in 1991. One of the two exits is in Fahnengasse and is equipped with escalators.
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. 43.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Fahnengasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 246-246 ( digitized version ).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 34.7 " N , 16 ° 21 ′ 58.7" E