City of Peace (Vienna)

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City of Peace in Vienna the name of a settlement in the 13th district of Vienna, Hietzing .

location

The settlement is surrounded in the north and northeast by the Hörndlwald (the southern part of which it fell victim to), in the east by the Speising district , in the south by Lainzer-Bach-Straße and the adjoining areas of the Auhofer Trennstück settlement (east) and other settlements (west ) and bounded in the west by the Lainzer Tiergarten itself. The Hörndlwald and the settlements adjoining it to the south were also formerly a zoo area. The Peace City extends over an area of ​​around 45 hectares, in the east-west direction it is 1.1 km long.

history

Monument in the Peace City to commemorate its founding and expansion

In the autumn of 1920 war invalids occupied the area in the Lainzer Tiergarten, located beyond the Vienna city limits, in the municipality of Hadersdorf-Weidlingau (today in the 14th district) in Lower Austria , in order to obtain settlement permits from the state. In 1921 the settlement cooperative of the war invalids obtained this permit. The foundation stone for the settlement was laid on September 3, 1921.

The houses at Hermesstrasse 85-99 were built according to type plans by Adolf Loos , but a development plan for the rest of the estate, also from Loos, was not implemented. The name of the settlement and its longitudinal connection Friedenszeile (parallel to Hermesstrasse) reflect the time it was built.

In autumn 1938 the area was included in the National Socialist Greater Vienna like the Lainzer Tiergarten . The zoo was incorporated into the new 25th district, the Peace City, however, in the 13th district. Since the City of Peace was not part of Vienna before 1938, it was part of the Soviet occupation zone in Austria from 1945 to 1955, like the 25th district (and not, like Hietzing, otherwise part of the British sector of Vienna). The zoo has also been part of the 13th district since 1956.

present

The image that the City of Peace offers today is extremely diverse. In addition to simple houses, which have hardly changed since the development of the settlement, there are spacious single-family houses and villas. From Speising (tram line 60) the bus line 55A (until December 31, 2014 as 60B in the network tariff) travels through Hermesstraße, an avenue, to the Lainzer Tor of the zoo. Individual traffic through this street is also denser when an interesting exhibition is shown in the Hermesvilla of the Vienna Museum . Since the Lainzer Tiergarten and the Hörndlwald block through traffic, there is still a high quality of living here.

At the eastern end of the Peace City on Hermesstraße there is still the gatehouse of the former Lainzer Tor, at the western end is today's Lainzer Tor, the main entrance to the zoo.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 405.
  2. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 235

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 5.2 "  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 52.4"  E