Gauermanngasse
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| place | Vienna, inner city |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | 1870 |
| Cross streets | Nibelungengasse, Getreidemarkt |
| Places | Schillerplatz |
| Buildings | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
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| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrian traffic |
| Road design | one way street |
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| Street length | about 80 meters |
The Gauermanngasse located on the 1st Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1870 after the painters Jakob and Friedrich Gauermann .
history
The area of today's Gauermanngasse belonged to the suburb in front of the Widmertor in the Middle Ages . From the 16th century the glacis was also located here , an undeveloped area in front of the Vienna city wall . After their removal, instead of the fortifications and the glacis, the Vienna Ringstrasse and the surrounding Ringstrasse zone emerged, which is why Gauermanngasse owes its existence in 1870. The naming after the respected painters took place in view of the projected construction of the building of the Academy of Fine Arts .
Location and characteristics
Gauermanngasse runs south from Schillerplatz to Getreidemarkt . It is run as a one-way street and has little traffic. The buildings on both sides date from the time the street was opened and are designed in the historicist style. There is a large fitness studio on the right-hand side of the street. The building houses offices and law firms and, since 2014, the German embassy temporarily . On the left side of the street is a side of the Academy of Fine Arts, separated from the road by a green strip.
building
No. 1: Academy of Fine Arts
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→ see also main article Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Between Schillerplatz, Makartgasse, Getreidemarkt and Gauermanngasse, the block-like, monumental building of the Academy of Fine Arts, which was built between 1872 and 1877 by Theophil von Hansen in neo-renaissance forms, is free-standing . It is one of the most important works by the architect and also of historicism in Vienna. In 1945 the building was badly damaged and then rebuilt. Here is also the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts with valuable pictures from the 15th to 18th centuries, including the Last Judgment triptych by Hieronymus Bosch . The Kupferstichkabinett is one of the most important graphic collections in Austria. The building is a listed building .
No. 2, 4: rental house
The apartment building, which is free on three sides between Nibelungengasse, Gauermanngasse and Getreidemarkt, was built in the historicist style in 1871–1872 by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein . The broad facade has central and corner projections ; the corner to the grain market is chamfered . The additional rows of windows consist of arched and gable windows, and balconies are located on the first floor. The entrances are divided into pilasters and arcades and have profiled ceilings.
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. 51.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Gauermanngasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 479 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City. Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , p. 696.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 5.7 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 51.6 ″ E