Gölsdorfgasse
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna, inner city |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | 1862 |
| Newly designed | 1881 |
| Hist. Names | Augustengasse |
| Connecting roads | Fishing stairs |
| Cross streets | Salzgries, Gonzagagasse, Franz-Josefs-Kai |
| Places | Rudolfsplatz |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Road design | one way street |
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| Street length | approx. 163 meters |
The Gölsdorfgasse located on the 1st Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1919 after the railway engineer Karl Gölsdorf .
history
The area on which today's Gölsdorfgasse is located belonged to the suburbs in front of the Werdertor in the Middle Ages and extended over the moat of the curtain wall of the Vienna city wall . In 1646 the Wasserschanze was built as part of the fortifications in the area of today's block between Gölsdorfgasse, Franz-Josefs-Kai , Salztorgasse and Gonzagagasse. It was demolished in 1822.
In 1859–1860, the demolition of the remaining fortifications began, instead of which the quay and the ring road were built on the site of the former city wall and the surrounding glacis . New streets and lots of houses were laid out as planned on the thus empty urban expansion area. This is how the short Augustengasse was built between Franz-Josefs-Kai and Rudolfsplatz in 1862 . Contrary to the popular opinion that this was named after Empress Karoline Auguste , Richard Perger doubts this, as the Empress was always named by her first name and names after her were therefore Karolinenbrücke or Karolinentor . The namesake should therefore be Archduchess Auguste , the wife of the Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold .
After the demolition of the Salzgries barracks in 1881, it was possible to extend Augustengasse from Rudolfsplatz to Salzgries. When the monarchy came to an end, some streets that had been named after members of the imperial family, but otherwise had no special merit for Vienna, were renamed. Therefore, in 1919 Augustengasse was renamed Gölsdorfgasse . Since then it has been remembering the deserving railway engineer Karl Gölsdorf, who died in 1916 .
Location and characteristics
Gölsdorfgasse runs from Salzgries in a northerly direction, is interrupted by Rudolfsplatz and then continues from there in a north-easterly direction to Franz-Josefs-Kai. As a result of these three sections, it takes a curved course overall. It is a one-way street throughout , although cycling in the opposite direction is possible. Public transport does not run here. Car traffic and pedestrian traffic are low. The buildings consist of residential and commercial buildings in the historicist style, which were built between 1860 and 1880. There are some stores in them. A large green area in the form of a park is located on Rudolfsplatz.
building
No. 1: residential and commercial building
Originally the northern side of the Salzgries was without houses and it ran along the city wall. Over time, some bastion houses and private rental houses were built on it, which were demolished in order to start building the Salzgries barracks in their place in 1745, the only barracks within the city fortifications. It existed until 1880. The area was then re-parceled out and built. 1881–1884 Wilhelm Fraenkel built this house on the corner of Salzgries and Gölsdorfgasse in neo-Renaissance forms for Julius Weissenfeld Ritter von Meisach. It is at the main address Salzgries 10.
No. 2: residential building
At this point there were already previous buildings that bordered the Salzgries barracks. In 1881 the last of them was demolished and in 1882 Adolf Hofbauer erected today's building on the corner of Salzgries and Gölsdorfgasse in the historicist style. It was destroyed by a bomb in 1945 and only rebuilt in a very simplified manner.
No. 3: residential building
At the corner of Gölsdorfgasse and Rudolfsplatz, Wilhelm Fraenkel built this remarkable building in 1881 in old German neo-Renaissance forms. It has a corner projectile with a balcony and a dome. The facade consists of banded exposed brickwork that rises above a rusticated base. Diamond cuboids can be seen in both areas. The windows have blown gables with vases and busts, as well as hermen pilasters . The windows in the attic zone also have blown gables. The wrought iron grille on the large balcony between the corner and side projections on the side facing Rudolfsplatz is remarkable. Behind the wooden gate is a richly stuccoed driveway with Tuscan and Ionic pilasters, aedicules and busts, coffered belts and vaults as well as a stick pavement. In the staircase, the banisters, the tiled floor, the stucco ceilings and the aedicule doors must be observed.
No. 4: Gothic house
The house on the corner of Franz-Josefs-Kai and Gölsdorfgasse originally had the address Augustengasse 2. It was built in the historicist style by Heinrich von Ferstel in 1860–1862 and is one of the rare examples of secular architecture in neo-Gothic forms in Vienna. It is also the first residential building that Ferstel built. The facade of the house consists of exposed bricks with tracery windows on the first floor above the base zone . Particularly eye- catching is the slim, four- story , pinnacle and tracery occupied, domed corner bay window. On the side facing Franz-Josefs-Kai there is also a balcony with tracery pointed arches on consoles in Haustein . Small terracotta decorations such as tracery, cube frieze, finial flowers or consoles can be seen on the cornices and window frames . Inside there is a groin vaulted vestibule . The two-armed house master's staircase has neo-Gothic wrought iron railings, the ceiling shows ornamental paintings.
A plaque reminds us that Hermann Broch was born in this house in 1886 . The house is a listed building .
No. 5: rental house
The late Secessionist rental house on the corner of Rudolfsplatz and Gölsdorfgasse was built by Siegfried Kramer in 1911–1912 . It originally had the address Augustengasse 1 and is at the main address Rudolfsplatz 6.
No. 7: House
The corner house Gölsdorfgasse and Franz-Josefs-Kai was built in 1860 by Eduard Kaiser . It is part of a historicist ensemble on Franz-Josefs-Kai that extends to No. 45. The house originally had the address Augustengasse 3 and is at the main address Franz-Josefs-Kai 39.
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. 54.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Gölsdorfgasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 572 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City. Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 49.7 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 21.2" E