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Aerial view of the Fasanviertel, view from the south
Fasangasse around 1905

The Fasanviertel is a district ( Grätzl ) in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse . The approximately 28 hectare area is located between Jacquingasse in the west, Landstraßer Gürtel in the south and Rennweg and the main S-Bahn line in the northeast. In the course of history there were also palace buildings there, however, very poor. It is also a popular residential area along Jacquingasse.

history

The Fasanviertel was named after the former beer house "Zum Fasandl" - but it is unknown when this happened exactly. Until the second half of the 19th century, the area was rural and criss-crossed by fields. From 1860 the area-wide development of the area began. Mohsgasse in the south was built around 1870, Hegergasse in the north in 1894. Since its completion in 1776, the Laveranhaus was a center of the Fasanviertel. This hunting lodge, built on the site of a former monastery, was named after its builder, the French Laveran. Around 1880, the small palace comprised many other buildings: In these there were 120 rental apartments in which, among others, the family of Leopold Kunschak , the first president of the National Council after 1945 , lived. At that time, the system was owned by the Kölbl family. Kölblgasse is still named after her today.

Another resident of the Laveranhaus was Magdalena Kührer. On September 17, 1853, she killed her unemployed son Georg, who had several criminal records, with a hoe, kept it in a freezer and distributed his body parts all over Vienna. After the body parts were found and interrogated by the police, she confessed to the murder. The motive she cited was the forced termination of her apartment due to her son's theft offenses and the resulting inescapable situation of the family, who were already living on the poverty line. Magdalena Kührer was sentenced to death by hanging. Before the sentence could be carried out, Emperor Franz Joseph I pardoned her to eight years in prison. Demolished in 1900, Keilgasse and Hegergasse are located there today.

The Princess Pauline Metternich-Sandor lived from 1895 at Fasangasse 26 in a palace designed by the architects Bauqué and Pio. She was the granddaughter of State Chancellor Metternich and married her mother's brother, who was an ambassador at the court of Napoleon III. worked in Paris. Through him she gained an insight into the world of governance and representation and, after her return in 1870, achieved an enormous reputation among the Viennese population through her political and social commitment. Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary despised the princess for her exaggerated self-portrayal and appearance, but left her numerous tasks due to her own fear of people. The Palais Metternich in the Fasanviertel was completely destroyed in the Second World War.

In 1895 , a princely palace was built at Jacquingasse 18 on behalf of the art patron Karl Graf Lanckoroński-Brzezie . This contained an extensive art collection that was accessible to visitors. The collection was confiscated in 1938 by the NSDAP's Schutzstaffel and partly destroyed. Count Lanckoroński did not live to see the confiscation; he died in 1933 . The palace was demolished after the war. The journalist Karl Hans Sailer and the trade unionist and later president of the Chamber of Labor, Karl Mantler , lived in Fasangasse 30 . The house was destroyed towards the end of the Second World War.

Buildings

The adjacent Belvedere Palace , built in the 18th century , is one of the most important sights in Vienna. Today the Upper and Lower Belvedere houses galleries, art collections and museums. The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna and the Schweizergarten to the south are also in the immediate vicinity of the Fasanviertel . The Church of Our Lady is located in the Fasanviertel .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Fasanviertel: Füsten, Murderers and Socialists , last accessed on September 15, 2013.
  2. a b Fasanviertel. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on October 14, 2013 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 .
  3. medienhaus.com GmbH: Fasanviertel: The horror in the third , last accessed on September 15, 2013.
  4. medienhaus.com GmbH: Fasanviertel: Sisis Rivalin , last accessed on September 15, 2013.
  5. ^ Österreichische Galerie Belvedere: Belvedere website

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '  N , 16 ° 23'  E