Greek Quarter (Vienna)
The toponym Greek Quarter refers to an area in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . It is located at the meat market and borders the so-called Jewish quarter to the west . Today the term is used more in a historical context.
history
From around 1700 Greek merchants, who were mainly active in the oriental trade, settled at the meat market. On January 17, 1685, Johannes Theodat opened the first Viennese coffee house in his house on Haarmarkt, now Rotenturmstrasse 14. While the quarter (like the entire inner city) was once socially mixed, in 1848 the wealthier Viennese Greeks began to move away . For example, the Palais Dumba and Palais Ephrussi were built on the Ringstrasse . The shops of the merchants were still in the Greek Quarter, their meeting point was the Greek bar , on the side of which is the Greek street. But there were also printing works here that supplied the Greek population with Greek-language literature, such as the P. Markides printing house at Rotenturmstrasse 21, where Rigas Feraios had some of his books printed.
In the 19th century, the Georgskirche and the Greek Church of the Holy Trinity were built in their current form. Not far from the quarter was the Palais Sina of the Greek-Austrian entrepreneurial family of the same name.
In the competition for the destroyed areas on the Danube Canal on February 7, 1946, urban planning solutions were also sought for the war-damaged Greek quarter.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Teply: The introduction of coffee in Vienna . Association for the history of the city of Vienna, Vienna 1980, vol. 6. p. 104. Quoted in: Anna Maria Seibel: The importance of the Greeks for economic and cultural life in Vienna . P. 94 ( online version )
- ↑ The history of the coffee house in Vienna
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 38.3 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 38.5" E