Gluckgasse
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna, inner city |
| District | Inner City (1st District) |
| Created | 1295 at the latest |
| Newly designed | 1621, 1876 |
| Hist. Names | Ziecherstraße, Klostergasse |
| Cross streets | Tegetthoffstrasse |
| Places | Lobkowitzplatz |
| Buildings | Capuchin monastery Vienna |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Road design | one way street |
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| Street length | about 80 meters |
The Gluckgasse located on the 1st Viennese district , the Inner City . It was named in 1894 after the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck , who died in Vienna .
history
In the Middle Ages, the then Ziecherstraße or the Ziechgässlein ran from Kärntner Straße (between No. 26 and 28) to Lobkowitzplatz. The name possibly comes from the profession of barrel puller. These were workers who mostly carried heavy barrels through the narrow streets of the city to their destination with mere muscle power. During the construction of the Capuchin monastery from 1621 to 1622, the narrow passage from Kärntner Strasse in the area of today's Tegetthoffstrasse 1 and 3 was separated by a transverse wall and built in 1639 with the palace for Prince Ferdinand Schwarzenberg, while between today's Tegetthoffstrasse 1 and 4 a connection to New market was created. The street, now known as Klostergasse , ran from Lobkowitzplatz along the Capuchin monastery and around the corner to the Neuer Markt. On the other hand, it bordered on the Vienna Citizens' Hospital . This was converted into a large apartment building from 1784 to 1790, the so-called Bürgerspitalzinshaus. After this was demolished in 1873–1875, the extensive complex had to be re-parceled out. In the course of this, Tegetthoffstrasse was created in 1876, with the part of Klostergasse around the corner that led to the Neuer Markt being incorporated into Tegetthoffstrasse. In 1894 the name of the remaining Klostergasse was changed to Gluckgasse .
Location and characteristics
Gluckgasse runs from Tegetthoffstrasse in a north-westerly direction to Lobkowitzplatz. It is run as a one-way street , whereby the car traffic and the number of pedestrians are not too large, although there are streets around which are heavily frequented by tourists. There is no public transport in Gluckgasse. Most of the pubs consist of galleries or other artistic branches and a restaurant.
The oldest building on Gluckgasse is the Capuchin monastery from the Biedermeier period ; all other houses belong to historicism and were built at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, which gives the alley a stylistically uniform impression.
building
No. 1: residential building
Instead of the citizen hospital interest house demolished in 1873–1875, Josef Hudetz , who had good connections with the Union building company , built a block between Führichgasse , Tegetthoffstrasse and Gluckgasse on the newly parceled site . This also includes the corner houses Tegetthoffstrasse and Gluckgasse, which was built in 1885 in the late historic style. The Ministry of Public Health, founded in 1918 and the State Office for Public Health, which existed until 1919 after the end of the monarchy, had its seat in this building.
The house has shallow corner and side projections . The two-storey plinth is characterized by banded pilasters and doors with blown segment gables, while the upper zone, which is divided into two parts by a remarkable Doric frieze with metope reliefs, has suspected windows on the first and third floors, grooved Tuscan and Corinthian giant pilasters on the risalits and an accentuated central axis to Tegetthoffstrasse is accentuated. The secessionist glass door dates from 1905, the canopy is new, but rests on curved lattice brackets from the time the house was built. The foyer is divided by wall pillars and, like the staircase, has stucco beams. The railing and floor tiles of the staircase are still original.
No. 2: residential and commercial building
The secessionist house on the corner of Gluckgasse and Tegetthoffstrasse is surrounded by the lower Capuchin monastery and thus protrudes over the surrounding buildings. The area originally belonging to the Capuchin monastery had to be ceded in 1786 by order of Joseph II for a private residential building. The current building was built in 1909–1910 by Siegfried Kramer .
The house has a rounded corner and a high plinth area with a glazed metal frame, which was renovated in 1980 by Burkhardt Rukschcio for the Banco do Brasil . Above it rises a grooved mezzanine floor and the upper zone divided by balconies, pilaster strips , barred French windows and slight side elevations with parapet windows crowned by cartouches . The shop entrance on the corner shows the original over- port glazing . The entrance to the house with a wrought iron door leads to the foyer clad with stone slabs with wall panels and pilaster strips. There are remarkable ceiling chandeliers on the segment-arched stucco cassette barrel. The staircase is divided by wall panels and has marble-framed windows and doors (these with barred skylights). The elevator railing comes from the construction time.
No. 3: residential building
The residential building, which is part of the block of houses built in place of the Bürgerspitalzinshaus, was built in 1884 by Josef Hudetz in the late historical style. The three-part upper zone consists of a lower, banded area with suspected wedge - shaped windows , a smooth central area with neo-baroque window roofs and an attic storey in which the roofs are cranked by a cornice . The facade is dominated by its emphasized central axis Doppelvoluten - console shows a magnificent wrought iron balconies, genii and vase. Below is the suspected wooden portal with Tuscan pilasters and a glazed, barred wooden door. The original base zone is no longer there. Here Roland Rainer designed a shop portal for the goldsmith Drobny- Rainer in 1970 and Eva Rubin 1972–1973 a shop for the goldsmith Stubhann with a display case broken in crystal. The foyer is divided by pillars with wall panels decorated with cartridges and masks. There are also gable doors , a ceiling with a stucco rosette and an original terrazzo floor. In the staircase you can see stucco beams and mask consoles as well as original railings. The building is a listed building .
No. 4: Capuchin monastery
→ see also the main article Capuchin Monastery Vienna
The Capuchin monastery was built between 1622 and 1632 and took up the entire area between New Market, Plankengasse, Spiegelgasse, Gluckgasse and Tegetthoffstraße. In 1786, Emperor Joseph II ordered considerable cedings of several monastery buildings in favor of new residential buildings. On the remaining, winding grounds, Johann Höhne rebuilt the monastery from 1840–1842 in an early historical round arch style .
In the middle area of Gluckgasse is the U-shaped main wing of the monastery with the main staircase, refectory and library . A low glare facade in front of the inner courtyard is flanked by higher side projections with tent roofs. The base of the risalite is grooved cuboid, while the rest of the facade is smoothly plastered and has a cordon cornice . Most of the arched windows are blind windows. A three-part arched window is visible above the arched portal with the original wooden gate. Round-arched windows are also installed inside the simple courtyard. Above the gate there is a painting on metal depicting St. Shows Francis with Emperor Matthias and Empress Anna in front of the Mother of God.
The refectory is on the ground floor and consists of a basket-arched, barrel-vaulted hall with faceted stitch caps and stucco medallions depicting the Eucharistic symbols, IHS and Mary. The paintings hanging here are interesting. It is the Last Supper by Joseph von Führich (1842) on the front wall, the award of the Portiuncula indulgence , a work from Northern Italy from the middle of the 17th century on the opposite wall, the Holy Family by Johann Manschgo (around 1841 ), St. Francis by Johann Manschgo (1841) and Emperor Ferdinand I by Georg Ridler (1841) on the long wall, as well as around St. Lawrence of Brindisi and St. Fidelis von Sigmaringen from the beginning of the 19th century on the window wall.
The late classicist library is on the first floor with a pendent dome between belts on which a stuccoed double-headed eagle and an inscription can be seen. Built-in wall units and transversely positioned cupboards with fluted pilaster strips and crowning vases contain above all Bibles and theological literature, including cradle prints .
The main staircase consists of a four-pillar staircase with a stucco ceiling on which the instruments of Christ's passion are depicted. The furnishings include a crucifix from the fourth quarter of the 17th century, a wooden sculpture Stella maris from the middle of the 18th century and another crucifix (around 1600).
The entire monastery with the church and the Capuchin Crypt is a listed building.
No. 5: rental house
The rental house, which is free on three sides between Führichgasse, Lobkowitzplatz and Gluckgasse, was built by Otto Wagner in 1884–1885 . It is a monumental, historicist early work by the architect that is a listed building. It is at the main address Lobkowitzplatz 1.
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. 53.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Gluckgasse. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 559 ( digitized version ).
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. I. District - Inner City. Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , pp. 697-698.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 19.8 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 9.6 ″ E