Fishing stairs
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| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | before 1373 |
| Hist. Names | Fischergasse, Gässel on the Fischerstiege |
| Connecting roads | Gölsdorfgasse |
| Cross streets | Salvatorgasse, Sterngasse, Salzgries |
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| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrians |
| Road design | one way street |
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| Street length | approx. 110 m |
The Fischerstiege is a street in the first Viennese district , the Inner City . The caught fish were brought into the city via them from a former arm of the Danube; therefore the name.
history
The fisherman's staircase has been known since the Middle Ages. Where the street called Salzgries runs today was the closest arm of the Danube to the city . The name is documented in 1373, changed to Fischergasse for a short time in 1451 , and was then called Fischerstiege again. In 1563 and 1642 it was called Gässel an der Fischerstiege . From 1664 the current name was fixed.
In the lower part of the street there was a gate that was a relic of the old castle wall until it was demolished at the end of the 18th century . The alley used to fork from this gate to the Salzgries. The branching off to the left branch was called in 1795 Wagnergassel or - alleys , since 1862 Wachtelgasse (probably for a home plate). It disappeared around 1900 when the area was rebuilt. The branch branching off to the right, however, has always been considered part of the Fischerstiege.
Location and characteristics
The Fischerstiege runs from Salvatorgasse in a north-easterly direction with a bend at Sterngasse to the north to Salzgries. A staircase leads from Salvatorgasse to Sterngasse; from there it is a normal alley that slopes down to the salt gravel. This second section is a one-way street . There is no public transport on the Fischerstiege.
Despite its age, the alley no longer has a medieval character, apart from its curved course. Most of the buildings date from the post-war period, when the old houses destroyed by bombs were replaced with community buildings. Only the last two buildings near Salzgries date from the end of the 19th century. There are a few shops on the Fischerstiege, such as a bookstore and a hairdresser. However, many business premises are empty, which, together with the graffiti on the walls, gives the alley a dreary character.
building
No. 1–7: Municipal housing
The previous buildings were old, winding houses; No. 3 in particular is said to have had a seven hundred year history. On this house there was a mural with the fish pulling Peter and the inscription: This house is in God's hands, it is called Zur Fischerstiege . In 1923 it came into the possession of the City of Vienna. After the war damage, the houses were initially still standing. In 1948 house no. 1 collapsed, two years later houses no. 3 and 5 faced the same fate. Since renovation was not considered possible, a new building was built in 1952, which included plots 1 to 7.
The community building was carried out between 1952 and 1954 according to plans by Otto Niedermoser and Hans Petermair . The old town structure and the adjacent buildings were taken into account and a multi-part residential complex with inner courtyards and, due to the considerable difference in level of 5 meters, with a stepped facade structure was created. On the corner of Salvatorgasse, people even resorted to a historicizing facade design with contracted window axes and window canopies, and profiled stone frames for the windows and doors. In the lower area of the Fischerstiege there is a rusticated portal that can be reached via a staircase. Next to it is a wall relief depicting the fish trade by Rudolf Schwaiger from 1953. Above the entrance on Salvatorgasse there is a pigeon frieze by Josef Pillhofer from the same year. A plaque commemorates the librettist Peter Herz .
The community housing comprises 116 apartments. Between 1988 and 1990 the facility was renovated and a lift was installed. The facility is a listed building .
No. 2: residential and commercial building
The monumental residential and commercial building, freestanding on three sides, between Salvatorgasse, Fischerstiege and Sterngasse was built by Viktor Siedek in the late historical style in 1911–1912 . It is at the main address Sterngasse 13.
No. 4–8: Municipal housing
The counterpart to the residential complex No. 1–7 was created by the same architects at the same time. This is a corner building on Sterngasse and the Fischerstiege with the inner courtyard behind. The facade is also stepped due to the difference in level. As in the building opposite, it is divided vertically into a business zone, a mezzanine and a main zone with four or five floors. Here as there is a pitched roof with dormers . Above the entrance there is a stone relief fabric shop by Oskar Bottoli from 1953.
The complex comprises 66 apartments. It is a listed building.
No. 9: Bärringer-Hof
Arnold Lotz built this residential and commercial building on the corner of Fischerstiege and Salzgries in the late historic style in 1897. Its beveled corner projection with a large heraldic cartouche in rich ornamental framing is characteristic. The two-storey, partly still original business zone is divided by pilasters . The grooved mezzanine is followed by the upper zone with balconies resting on volute consoles and richly framed windows. The attic level is closed off by a console cornice. After war damage, six window axes of the facade to the Salzgries were no longer faithfully restored. There are lion masks and Hermes heads above the two portals. The vestibule is represented by marble columns, stucco wall panels and a glazed wooden porter's lodge. The floor tiles, the wrought iron railing with winged dragons at the base of the stairs and the lift grates are also from the construction period.
No. 10: rental house
The rental house on the corner of Fischerstiege / Salzgries was built in 1892 by Ferdinand Dehm and Franz Olbricht in a late historical style in neo-renaissance forms . The corner projection emerges only faintly. The ground floor no longer has any decor of the original design. The upper part of the business zone is grooved and the mezzanine is banded . The upper floor zone shows colossal double pilasters on the corner projections. The attic floor is divided by pilasters and has a console cornice with a vegetable frieze. An original corner tower was dismantled in 1951. The foyer is adorned with richly stucco wall panels with putti and tendril decorations. The vestibule door has etched glass windows. Floor tiles and handrails are still in their original condition.
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. 45.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Fischerstiege. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 315-315 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City . Verlag Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , p. 682.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 45.4 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 18.9 ″ E