Floridsdorf (Vienna district)

Floridsdorf
coat of arms	map

Floridsdorf is a district of Vienna in the same 21 district of Vienna Floridsdorf . The place was an independent municipality until 1904 and is now one of the 89 Viennese cadastral communities .

geography

Floridsdorf with Florido Tower , in the foreground the Danube Island

The cadastral community extends over an area of ​​276.15 hectares , of which 42.83 hectares are the water surface of the Danube in the 20th district of Brigittenau . Within the Floridsdorf district, the district borders as a central district in the southeast with the district Donaufeld , in the northeast with Großjedlersdorf and in the northwest with Jedlesee .

The center is northwest of the New Danube . In the southeast, Floridsdorf encloses the section of the uninhabited Danube Island between the north bridge and the north railway bridge .

history

Market place around 1895

Floridsdorf is a more recent village that was founded in 1786 after bridges were built over the arms of the then widely ramified Danube . The settlement was built on the Leopoldauer Hutweide east of the large fork in the streets of Prager Straße and Brünner Straße , the former imperial roads to Prague and Brno, where the Jedlersdorf am Spitz settlement named after this fork was founded in 1782 (independent 1804–1874). The place initially belonged to Leopoldau and was later named after the Klosterneuburg abbot Floridus Leeb , who had given monastery grounds to settlers in 1786. When it was founded, today's Schlosshofer Strasse, which led via Schloss Hof im Marchfeld to Pressburg , became the main street of the village. South of Floridsdorf, the Great Tabor Bridge led over the then main arm of the unregulated Danube towards Vienna.

The railway age in Austria began in 1837 with test drives between Floridsdorf and Deutsch-Wagram, some 13 km away . The Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn soon became the most important railway line of the monarchy, as it connected Vienna with iron works and coal mines in the north and northeast of the empire . The Floridsdorf station was not expanded to Vienna Floridsdorf station until the 1960s , when, after the Nordwestbahnbrücke was closed , the trains of the Nordwestbahn also ran via Floridsdorf.

The Floridsdorfer Amtshaus

mayor
Josef Kahl	1850-1861
Leopold Ferstl	1861-1869
Karl Fromml	1869-1876
Georg Puffer	1876-1882
Konrad Krafft	1882-1885
Franz Ziegler	1885-1887
Anton Schwaiger	1887-1898
Anton Other	1898-1904

In 1894, following an initiative by kk governor Erich von Kielmansegg, based on a resolution of the Lower Austrian state parliament, the municipalities of Floridsdorf, Donaufeld and Jedlesee and the Großjedlersdorf district of Neujedlersdorf south of the Brünner Straße rapid transit station were merged to form the larger municipality of Floridsdorf. 1901–1903 the community built a representative town hall , but was not able to finance other necessary investments from its own. In 1904, on the initiative of the Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger, it was incorporated into Vienna along with other localities - the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf was created .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the former municipality of Floridsdorf shows a green, two-handled vase with three red flowers and some green leaves on a silver background. As a speaking coat of arms , the Latin word for flower ( flos ) refers to an interpretation of the name of the district.

Culture and sights

Florido Tower by Brigitte Auer bridge seen from

The high-rise office building Florido Tower , which was built in 2001, has become a landmark of Floridsdorf. The foundation stone for today's Floridsdorf parish church by architect Robert Kramreiter-Klein was laid in 1936. In Floridsdorf is also under the direction of Gerald Pichowetz standing Gloria Theater .

Through the Danube Island and the adjoining Old Danube , the district has an extensive leisure and swimming area. With the Floridsdorfer Wasserpark and the Floridsdorfer Aupark near the Danube there are two large parks.

Transport and infrastructure

The main route of the Vienna S-Bahn ends at the Vienna Floridsdorf train station and is one of the two end stations of the U6 underground line . Several trams and public buses also stop here. For road traffic, Floridsdorf is particularly accessible through the Donauufer Autobahn and Floridsdorfer Strasse , which intersect at the Floridsdorfer Bridge .

The Floridsdorf Social Medical Center is located on the border with Donaufeld and one of the most unusual grammar schools in Vienna is anchored on the Danube Island with the school ship . The training ship is located on the floor of the cadastral community of Floridsdorf, whose border runs on the right bank of the Danube, but does not stand or, better still, swim in the Floridsdorf district, which is bordered on the left bank of the Danube, but in the neighboring district of Brigittenau. In the cadastral community of Floridsdorf there are also the grammar schools BRG 21 Franklinstrasse 21 and BRG 21 Franklinstrasse 26, the educational institute for kindergarten pedagogy of the City of Vienna (Patrizigasse 2) and the Academy for Social Work of the City of Vienna XXI (Freytaggasse 32).

Personalities

• Franz Hoß (1866–1947), politician, Vice Mayor of Floridsdorf
• Anton Schlinger (1870–1912), social democratic councilor and member of the Reichsrat
• Johann Kaps (1895–1966), politician
• Alfred Knotz (1844–1906), lawyer, member of parliament for Floridsdorf in the Lower Austrian state parliament

literature

• Raimund Hinkel: Vienna XXI. Floridsdorf. The home book . Brandstätter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85447-528-4 .

Web links

Commons : Floridsdorf (Vienna district part)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map: Floridsdorf around 1820

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical local dictionary . Vienna. PDF (443 KB) , p. 44
2. ↑ Village history www.floridsdorf.at
3. ↑ Entry on Floridsdorf (Vienna district part) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
4. ↑ Description of the coat of arms according to the City of Vienna ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 26 ″  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 2 ″  E