Freudenau horse racing track

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The so-called "court grandstand" of the horse racing track

The Freudenau horse racing track was opened in 1839 for horse racing in the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt in Vienna .

investment

The racecourse is located in the eponymous Freudenau, a former wetland area in the east of the Vienna Prater . Maintained in the style of historicism , the complex is distinguished by its delicate cast iron architecture. It has five stands. The entire facility is a listed building .

history

High society on the Freudenau horse racing track in 1902

The opening race of the track created by the Race Committee on the so-called Fleischhacker-Wiese took place on May 4, 1839. At two English miles, the length of the new racetrack corresponded to the one used up until then on the Simmeringer Haide , whereby the land was estimated to be better for the race.

In 1858, in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830–1916), the grandstands were inaugurated, designed by the architect Carl Hasenauer (1833–1894) and built by his brother, the court carpenter Christoph Hasenauer. The first Austrian derby took place in 1868. In 1870 the court grandstand designed by the Budapest architect Adolf Feszty (1846–1900) was built, which consisted of a box for the emperor and two side boxes. A fire destroyed part of the grandstands in 1883. From 1885 to 1887, according to plans by the architect Josef Drexler (1850–1922), the destroyed components were reconstructed using a more stable construction method, and the totalizator building and the administration and stable buildings were built.

On Easter Monday , April 26, 1886 and the sixth day of the spring meeting, the kk state railways opened the wing run to the Freudenau racing course . By way of connecting track you could on that day for the first time with a passenger train from Wien Westbahnhof without changing to the forecourt of the racecourse reach. The approximately 1.3 km wing runway branched off at the north end of the Ostbahnbrücke ( ) of today's Laaer Ostbahn in an east loop over an embankment that still exists today . World icon

Advertisement : Danube Canal boat trip from Ferdinandsbrücke to Freudenau (1900)
Opening tram line 80, Lusthaus (-Freudenau), September 2, 1909.
Heavy tram traffic on a racing day (around 1910)

In order to cope with the large crowds on racing days, there was a 3.5 km long double-track tram line 81 (initially 80) from September 8, 1909 to June 3, 1951, which ran from the Schottentor to the racecourse. A parking facility with eight parallel shunting tracks (a total of ten tracks) accommodated waiting trains; the trams were coordinated from a control tower. After the Kanalwächterhausweg / Gärtnerstraße – Rennbahn route was closed in 1951, until August 17, 1969, visitors to the racecourse had to use tram line 80 from the Rotunda Bridge to the Lusthaus to Kanalwächterhausweg / Gärtnerstraße and from there to walk to the racecourse. After 1969 the Freudenau racecourse could only be reached by bus.

The current street name Prater 80er Linie is reminiscent of the former tram line. (The line signal 80 sailed the town is home to part of the track from 1909 to 1910 and then got the line signal 81 assigned. Also on the race days 7 September to 14 October 1919 reversed the line signal 80 on the leading to the racecourse Freudenau Streckenast).

During the Second World War , a large part of the racetrack was devastated by bomb craters and the stables were badly damaged. The subsequent reconstruction took place in autumn 1945 with the support of the Embassy of the United Kingdom . In 1967 the Republic of Austria bought the Freudenau horse racing track. From 1975 to 1977 part of the area was built with the East Autobahn . The grandstands and the courtyard box were renovated from 1983 to 1986.

In 1991 the IRM Interrace Rennbahn Management GmbH was founded for the development of the area. According to the decision of the National Council, on August 5, 1994, it received the building permit for 100 years for the total area of ​​100 hectares. For this project Romée de La Poeze d´Harambure, ((Harambure and La Poeze d´Harambure)), a co-owner of the IRM company, won the building rights, the French PMI (Pari Mutuel International), a subsidiary of PMU (Pari Mutuel Urbain), who wanted to gain a foothold in Austria. After the Austrian tax office had not received the desired exclusivity for betting activities in Austria, it withdrew from the project, but not without having paid the debts of the former horse racing club. In 1995 the Viennese horse racing club ceased its activities as organizer of horse races in Freudenau.

The Austrian Racehorse Owners Club (AROC) subsequently acted as the race organizer. After the opening of the Magna Racino horse-drawn tramway by the industrialist Frank Stronach in 2004, racing events were increasingly relocated there, and most of them finally stopped in Freudenau. The IRM sporadically conducts a few horse races and offers the racetrack as a location for all kinds of events. She developed the “Gardens of Vienna” plan, in which the historic grandstands and the Rondo are to be built as a refuge for equestrian sports, relaxation and health.

The so-called Kaiserloge of the Rennplatz can be rented for events today. At the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2016 , the first of the two ballet interludes was filmed in and in front of the imperial box.

See also

literature

  • Walter Binnebös: horse racing in Vienna. From the Prater Hauptallee in 1778 and the Simmeringer Heide to Kottingbrunn and Freudenau . Prachner, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85367-034-2

Web links

Commons : Galopprennbahn Freudenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. II. To IX. and XX. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 42
  2. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
  3. ^ Karl .:  Album. (...) horse races. First race on May 4, 1839. In:  Der Humorist , No. 90/1839 (3rd year), May 6, 1839, p. 359 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / hum.
  4. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Opening of the wing runway in Freudenau. In:  Die Presse , Abendblatt, No. 113/1886 (XXXIXth year), April 23, 1886, p. 3, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  5. ↑ The new tram to Freudenau. The first day of rail operations. In:  Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , No. 3479/1909 (Volume X), September 5, 1909, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short.
  6. ^ Vienna affairs. The tram to Freudenau. The opening rides. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 243/1909 (XLIII. Year), September 3, 1909, p. 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg;
    Freudenau !. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 249/1909 (XLIII. Year), September 9, 1909, p. 10, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  7. ^ Urban Affairs. The electric to Freudenau. Completion of the new Praterbahn. In:  Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , No. 3447/1909 (Xth volume), August 4, 1909, p. 10, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short.
  8. ^ Line 81 (1910-1951) . In: Clemens Beyer (Red.): Strassenbahnjournal.at , May 28, 2015, accessed on February 26, 2017.
  9. ↑ Line 80 . In: Clemens Beyer (Red.): Strassenbahnjournal.at , July 22, 2013, accessed on February 22, 2017.
  10. ↑ Freudenau awakens. In:  Upper Austrian news. Independent daily newspaper Austrian Democrats , No. 111/1945 (1st year), October 20, 1945, p. 5, top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oon.
  11. ^ Artstetten Castle / Archive / Harambure / Freudenau
  12. ↑ Austrian Racehorse Owners Club ( memento from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on www.aroc.at, accessed on May 4, 2013
  13. ↑ IRM events at www.freudenau.at, accessed on May 4, 2013
  14. ^ Günther Lehner: Equestrian sport: Freudenau faces an uncertain future - Sunday derby in the Racino. The gallop of the church mice . In: wienerzeitung.at , June 18, 2005, accessed on March 6, 2017.
  15. ^ Imperial box at the Freudenau gallop racing course. In: Lusthaus Vienna. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The line used the (parts of) existing routes Schottentor – Ring – Kai – Radetzkystraße – Löwengasse – Rasumofskygasse – Rotundenbrücke – Schüttelstraße – Stadionbrücke . The stadium bridge (then: Kaiser-Josef-Brücke) - Kanalwächterhausweg –Prater 80er Linie – Rennplatz Freudenau was tackled from 1908. The planning included the wing leading from the end of the Kanalwächterhausweg via Gärtnerstraße to the Lusthaus (from September 2, 1909: part of line 80). - See:
    community newspaper. A tram line to Freudenau. In:  Das Vaterland , Abendblatt, No. 266/1908 (XLIX. Year), June 11, 1908, p. 3, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / possibly;
    Little chronicle. (...) Urban trams. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 150/1908, July 2, 1908, p. 15, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz;
    Announcements. (...) announcement. The Imperial and Royal Ministry of Railways (...). In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 72/1909, March 30, 1909, p. 397 (unpaginated), column 2 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  2. ↑ The traffic-related development of the racing area by tram line 80 led to the expansion of other line services on racing days, as early as 1910:
    On working days: Line J , Ottakring – Josefstadt – Erdberg – Rennplatz; Line 11 , Gudrunstraße – Südbahnhof – Ungargasse – Schüttelstraße – Rennplatz; Line 12 , St. Marx (Grasbergergasse) –Schlachthausgasse – Lusthaus; Line 76 , Wollzeile – Erdberg – Rennplatz; Line 81 , Schottenring – Kai – Schüttelstraße – Rennplatz; Line 82 , Kochgasse – Landesgerichtsstraße – Getreidemarkt– (Last Street) –Heumarkt – Löwengasse – Schüttelstraße – Rennplatz. On Sundays and public holidays, the M line from Hietzing or Lainz – Mariahilfer Straße – Kai – Schüttelstraße – Rennplatz. - See: Urban Affairs. (...) Urban trams. In:  Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , No. 3690/1910 (XI. Volume), April 10, 1910, p. 7, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 11.2 "  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 58.5"  E