Gries (Graz)
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| Surface: | 5.05 km² | ||
| Residents: | 26,517 (January 1, 2017) | ||
| Population density: | 5,201 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes: | 8020, 8053, 8055 | ||
| Geographical location: | 47 ° 4 ' N , 15 ° 26' E | ||
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| District Office: | Bahnhofgürtel 85, 8020 Graz |
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| District Head: | Tristan Ammerer ( GREEN ) | ||
| 1. Deputy District Head: | Thomas Heschl ( ÖVP ) | ||
| 2nd deputy district head: | Vanessa Trattner ( FPÖ ) | ||
| Public transportation: | Tram lines: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 Bus lines: 31, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 50, 66, 67 / E N1, N2, N3, N5, N6, N7, N8 |
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The district of Gries is the 5th district of Graz .
location
It borders in the north on the 4th district of Lend (border: Annenstraße, Eggenbergerstraße), in the east on the districts 1., Innere Stadt and 6. Jakomini (border: Mur), in the south on the districts 7., Liebenau , 17th ., Puntigam (border: Tiergartenweg, Herrgottwiesgasse, Lauzilgasse, Triester Straße, Hans-Groß-Gasse) and in the west to the districts 14., Eggenberg , 15., Wetzelsdorf and 16., Straßgang .
history
The Old High German field name Gries refers to a gravel attachment or a hallway with coarse sand as it often occurs on the banks of the Mur. Due to its exposed, unprotected location in front of the city walls and because of the risk of flooding, the Gries was used for a long time by raftsmen, simple craftsmen and traders as a cheap residential and commercial area. It was not until the 17th century that permanent development began to take hold. The district has retained its multicultural character over the centuries.
During the November pogroms of 1938, in Graz on the night of November 10, the synagogue on Grieskai was burned down by the National Socialists. The David Herzog square in front of the synagogue is a reminder of the story of the regional rabbi David Herzog, who was beaten by the mob through the streets around the synagogue.
In the November pogrom, around 300 Jews from Graz were arrested and most of them were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp on November 11, 1938.
On October 21, 1998, all parties represented in the Graz city parliament decided unanimously to rebuild the Graz synagogue.
traffic
The center of the district is Griesplatz. This is the central transfer point from the urban bus routes 31, 32, 33, 39, 40 and 67 to various regional bus routes in western and southern Styria. With the exception of bus route 67, all other bus routes run from Griesplatz directly to Jakominiplatz.
The Karlau prison is also located in the district .
The local transport hub Don Bosco with regional S-Bahn connection is located on the western edge of the Gries district.
With the Eggenberger Gürtel, the busiest street in Graz is also partly in Gries.
education
- New Middle School St. Andrä (secondary school), Pedagogical Panther 2002
- Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory , Music School of the State of Styria
- BG Dreihackengasse
- BG / BRG Oeverseegasse
- New Albert Schweitzer Middle School
Culture
For years, the K5 gallery of the Murvorstadt cultural association on Griesplatz was a port of call for those interested in art and artists from Graz and Styria in the Gries district. Regular exhibitions contributed to the special flair of the square.
On September 24, 2016, the neighborhood festival Grieskram took place for the first time, which is supposed to be an annual fixture in the district's art, culture and culinary scene.
Club Wakuum ( Association for the Promotion of Young Bands ), located at Griesgasse 25 on the 1st floor since 2013, offers over 150 concerts by pop-cultural bands of various genres every year.
With the bubble bath, a free studio , there is a relatively new institution on Puchstrasse that offers a space for avant-garde art.
Attractions
The northern part of the district towards the city center is part of the UNESCO World Heritage City of Graz - Historic Center and Eggenberg Castle .
Buildings
- Retirement home church
- Welsche Church
- Bürgerspitalkirche
- Don Bosco Church
- Elizabethine Church
- Central cemetery church
- Synagogue (Graz)
- Church of St. Andrä
- Trieste settlement , built in 1930 under Mayor Vinzenz Muchitsch. During the first comprehensive renovation of the community buildings (with rental apartments) from the 1920s, the white painting with "LSR" and an arrow down to a basement window on Triester Straße - probably one of the very last in Austria - was preserved as a listed building and not covered with thermal insulation. An analog mark on the back of the same block in the west towards Vinzenz-Muchitsch-Gasse read "NA", like emergency exit. "LSR" was to be read in this way in the 1970s still in some old residential blocks in Austria's cities, some of the basement window openings concerned were thick with an additional 8 cm, closed massive, side battered concrete wings, suggesting the adaptation of the basement space as a shelter in Indicating bombings in World War II . The higher-lying painting with the up to 1 m long arrows and 30 cm high letters should probably show search teams the way to trapped people when houses have collapsed into piles of rubble made of bricks and wooden beams.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers + facts: population, districts, economy, geography on graz.at.
- ↑ a b c district councils in the Gries district on graz.at
- ^ City portal of the provincial capital Graz, Admin (Graz Press Service): David Herzog, Rabbi - city portal of the provincial capital Graz. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ^ DÖW - Remembering - Photos and Documents - 1938 - 1945 - November Pogrom 1938 - Styria. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Pedagogical Panther 2002 , elternbrief.at
- ↑ Murvorstadt website ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
