Hügelpark (Vienna)

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Hill park
Bust of Carl von Hügel in Hügelpark

The Hügelpark is a park in the 13th district of Vienna, Hietzing ; the park is located in the Unter-St.-Veit district .

The park, located south of Hietzinger Hauptstrasse between Kupelwiesergasse, Fichtnergasse, Larochegasse and Stoesslgasse and surrounded by villas, is named after the naturalist Carl von Hügel (1796–1870), who has been remembered by a bust in the park since 1901. In the area of ​​today's park there was originally the Biedermeier hill garden from 1824 , which belonged to the Villa Carl von Hügels ("hill villa ") north of Hietzinger Hauptstraße (until 1894 here St. Veiter Gasse ) .

Like many other suburbs, Unter-St.-Veit was incorporated into the City of Vienna in 1892 and became part of the new 13th district. The area belonging to the villa south of Hietzinger Hauptstrasse was parceled out in 1894 by the real estate dealer Julius Frankl, who had a park laid out in the middle of the resulting cottage-like buildings and designed by the garden architect Gustav Swenson. Frankl left the park to the city administration, which improved the infrastructure of the park and named it Hügelpark in 1903 .

The park has an area of ​​8,200 m² and has a playground and, in the middle, the municipal Andersen kindergarten, which opened in 1955 . The Hügelparkfest has been held every year on a Sunday in September since 1987.

On the Kupelwiesergasse bordering the park to the north, opposite the park, at No. 28 is the villa built by Adolf Loos in 1918/1919, which appears in architectural guides as Haus Strasser. On the Fichtnergasse, which borders the park to the east, you will find the Fichtnergasse grammar school in the block north of the park at number 15 , which has prominent high school graduates such as the Federal President until 2016, Heinz Fischer , and quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger . At the address Stoesslgasse 15 (on the corner of Kupelwiesergasse) west of the park, the actor Rudolf Prack lived until his death in 1981 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 3: Ha-La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , pp. 282-283.
  2. ^ Andersen Kindergarten in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 8 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 16 ″  E