Rathausstrasse (Vienna)
The Town Hall Street is on the 1st Viennese district of Inner City . It was named after the Vienna City Hall , on the back of which it runs.
history
Rathausstraße is located in the middle of the so-called Rathausviertel, which is bordered by Schmerlingplatz , Landesgerichtsstraße , Universitätsstraße and Ringstraße and was created in place of a former parade and parade ground from 1870. In the middle of the quarter is the Vienna City Hall. During the planning phase, today's Landesgerichtsstrasse was initially called Rathausstrasse (from 1872 to 1876). After the construction of the New Town Hall began in 1873, the street running parallel to Landesgerichtsstrasse and directly touching the back of the town hall was called Rathausstrasse. Since 1907 it has been interrupted by Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz , which lies between the town hall and Landesgerichtsstrasse.
Course and characteristics
Rathausstrasse begins at Doblhoffgasse in the south and runs parallel to Ringstrasse to Universitätsstrasse in the north. It is interrupted by Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz at the town hall. Like the entire town hall district, the street has a uniform character, which can be traced back to the overall planning of the area by Franz von Neumann , although the individual buildings were planned by different architects. The buildings were all built in the historicist style in the 1880s. Going back to war damage in World War II, there are only exceptions at the beginning and at the end of the street in the form of new buildings that disrupt the ensemble.
Rathausstrasse is a one-way street and is closed to traffic as a pedestrian zone between Doblhoffgasse and Stadiongasse . There is no public transport on this section of road. In the quiet street there are mainly representative office buildings of the City of Vienna, buildings used by the University of Vienna, offices and apartments, but almost no business premises.
Notable buildings
No. 1: Former Office building
For the history of this building site, see Stadiongasse 11 . The building from 1976–1980, which was demolished in 2017, was the most conspicuous foreign body in the historicist ensemble on Rathausstrasse. It was planned by the architects Harry Glück , Werner Höfer and Tadeusz Spychała and, as the official building of the City of Vienna, took up the entire block between Rathausstrasse, Doblhoffgasse , Auerspergstrasse and Stadiongasse . It was a reinforced concrete building that was clad with pink granite and had a tinted glass facade all around. Until 2013 the building housed the data center of the city of Vienna. The original design for the successor building had to be adapted after residents worried about the visual axis from Josefstädter Straße to St. Stephen's Cathedral. At the end of 2016, the BUWOG Group took over the project company and planned to build a new customer and administration center in place of the building known colloquially as the Glass Palace . This did not happen until the end of 2018.
No. 2
The corner house on Doblhoffgasse was planned by Ludwig Zatzka in 1887/88 . It is late historical and built in neo-renaissance forms . The clear and simple structure of the house only has a corner projectile with giant pilasters and grimacing heads on the cornice consoles.
No. 3: Otto Wagner
The building at the corner of Stadiongasse 10 / Landesgerichtsstrasse was built in 1880 by Otto Wagner .
No. 4
Just in front of house number 2, this strictly historic building was built in 1886/1887 according to plans by Ladislaus Boguslawski . Its shapes correspond to the New Vienna Renaissance. It has a corner projectile and a remarkable portal framed by pilasters and caryatid herms on consoles . The entrance is structured by pilasters and has a pendent dome between barrel vaults , which is decorated with grotesque paintings. The entrance to the courtyard is adorned with a polychrome painted lunette window and etched glass decorations.
No. 5
This house was built by Hermann Krackowizer in 1882/1883 .
No. 6
This house has housed the Metalab in the basement since 2006 .
No. 7
This house on the corner of Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 2, arcaded there, was built in 1882 by Dionys Milch and Heinrich Hellin.
No. 8
The strictly historical through-house was built by Johann Schieder from 1880–1883. Here, too, we can already find forms of the New Viennese Renaissance with additive aedicule windows and a balcony on consoles above a mighty column portal.
No. 9: Former Obentraut Palais
This building was built in 1882/83 by Ladislaus Boguslawski at the corner of Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 8-9. The client was Hedwig von Obentraut (née Münzberg), wife of the politician and administrative officer Adolf von Obentraut (1833–1909).
No. 10
The side of one of the arcade houses , Lichtenfelsgasse 7. It was built in 1888 by Wilhelm Stiassny .
No. 11
This building, erected in 1882/83 by Ladislaus Boguslawski , impresses above all with its high aedicula portal, which has a skylight and a blown gable top with a cartridge . The entrance is divided into pilasters. It has domed and barrel vaults, the sides are adorned with busts and relief medallions, the staircase is stuccoed.
No. 12: Town Hall (back)
The rear of the Vienna City Hall, built by Friedrich von Schmidt in 1872–1883, is located here . Since the 1970s, there has not only been public access to the town hall, but also the city information service, once town hall information, now called town information. Originally, this entrance was primarily intended for the municipal councils who came to meetings , who will find direct stairs to the meeting room here.
No. 13: Former residence in Stiassny
The corner house on Grillparzerstraße was built in 1881/1882 by Wilhelm Stiassny as his own house (officially for his wife, Julia Stiassny née Taussig). The strictly historical style is only recognizable up to the first floor, above which the house was faced after the war. The half-column portal and the stuccoed driveway with pilasters are still preserved . Inside there are aedicules with busts, putti medallions , a coffered barrel vault with rosettes and a pendentive dome .
A plaque commemorates the doctor Constantin von Economo .
No. 14–16: Municipal office
This building was built by August Kirstein in 1913–1918 ; its main entrance is on Felderstrasse 6-8.
No. 15–17: Former Königswarter house
The most representative building on Rathausstrasse is the palais-like semi-detached house built by Wilhelm Stiassny in 1881 for the banker Freiherr Moritz von Königswarter . It takes up the entire length of the block between Felderstrasse and Grillparzerstrasse and is thus free-standing on three sides. Like most of the buildings here, it was built in the forms of the New Vienna Renaissance. There are three-storey bay windows on herms and Tuscan column portals with spandreled figures . The foyers are stuccoed as well as pilasters and arcades and also show spandreled figures. Stefan Zweig lived here with his parents in 1898 .
Today there is a hotel at number 17.
No. 19
The building was built in 1881/82 by Ludwig Richter on the corner of Liebiggasse 8.
No. 20: Former Nemelka house
The corner house on Grillparzerstraße was built in 1885/1886 by Ladislaus Boguslawski in the style of the New Vienna Renaissance. It has shallow side elevations and a high banded base zone. The Tuscan half-column portal is also banded, the foyer behind it is stuccoed, pilasters and arcades with aedicules.
Only the Simmering factory owner and benefactor Lorenz Nemelka (1819–1897), owner of a machine and mill construction factory in the 11th district, can be found in the Vienna Historical Lexicon for the family name Nemelka .
No. 21
The corner house on Universitätsstraße was designed by Anton Adametz and was built in 1880/81 as one of the first houses on Rathausstraße. Like the later buildings, it is designed in the style of the New Vienna Renaissance. It has a corner projectile and an Ionic column portal with spandrel groove figures. In the courtyard there is a fountain with an aediculan niche and the figure of a girl with an amphora. The entrance is structured by pilasters, the aediculan niches are clad with stucco marble, the vestibule has Ionic stucco marble columns. There is a memorial plaque for the orthopedists Adolf Lorenz and Albert Lorenz on the house, and there is a memorial room in the house.
No. 22
The building is on the corner of Liebiggasse 5, was designed by Emanuel Trojan von Bylanow (1882/83) and formerly housed the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Agriculture , today the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Vienna.
No. 23 was not assigned because house No. 21 is already at the northern end of Rathausstrasse.
No. 24: New institute building at the University of Vienna
From the 1870s to the end of the 1950s, there was a narrow side of the Vienna Corps headquarters on the eastern corner of Rathausstrasse and Universitätsstrasse . Today the new institute building of the University of Vienna (NIG) stands here , built 1960–1962 by Adolf Dreier and Otto Nobis. The house has no entrance on the narrow side.
literature
- Dehio Handbook Vienna. I. District - Inner City . Berger publishing house: Horn, 2003
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at - "Glaspalast" demolition not until 2016 . Article dated November 2, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015.
- ↑ wienerzeitung.at of December 11, 2013, accessed February 11, 2014
- ↑ derStandard.at - Demolition of Harry Glück's "Glaspalast" in early 2015 . Article dated November 25, 2014, accessed November 26, 2014.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Vienna "Glaspalast": Buwog buys project Rathausstrasse 1 Article from December 29, 2016, accessed on February 7, 2017.
- ^ Stadtrechnungshof Wien: History of the House of Vienna 1., Rathausstrasse 9 / Landesgerichtsstrasse 10 , accessed on July 22, 2020
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 34.9 " N , 16 ° 21 ′ 21.8" E