Hegelgasse (Vienna)

The Hegelgasse in downtown Vienna. On the right is No. 12, where the first girls' high school in the German-speaking area was built in 1892

The Hegelgasse is a street in the first Viennese district of Inner City . It was created in 1862–1863 after the city fortifications were demolished in the area of the Dachslochschanze near today's Schubertring . It runs parallel to it, in the city center, between Schwarzenbergstrasse and Weihburggasse . Hegelgasse was named in 1865 after the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . The nearby Fichtegasse , Kantgasse and Schellinggasse were also named after philosophers.

Educational institutions

The municipal teacher education center was established in Hegelgasse 12 in 1868 . It was called the Bundeslehrerbildungsanstalt from 1921 to 1962 and has been the secondary school for music and art since 1963 .
In 1872 the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium was built in this building (Hegelgasse 12) , and in 1912 it moved to Stubenbastei 6-8. This Gymnasium Stubenbastei has been called Bundesrealgymnasium Wien 1 since 1921 .
Also in Hegelgasse 12, the industrialist wife and women's rights activist Marianne Hainisch founded the girls 'high school in 1892 , the first girls' high school in German-speaking countries. In 1910 the school moved to the building at Rahlgasse 4 .

At Hegelgasse 14 is the building of the former federal upper level secondary school Vienna 1, in which numerous important people graduated . The school was originally called the Royal Imperial Teachers Training Institute and later the State Trade School . The school was relocated to the neighboring building in Schellinggasse in 2017 and from 2020 will form the "Lessinggasse School Center" together with the former BRG 2 Vereinsgasse .

In the same building block, the higher technical college at Schellinggasse Vienna 1 was situated; In 1999 it moved to Thaliastraße 125 and is now called HTL Ottakring.

building

No. 1: Palais Henckel-Donnersmarck , built in 1871/72 according to plans by Johann Romano von Rings and August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg in the style of the French Renaissance ( SAS Palais Hotel since 1985 ).
No. 3: Palais Leitenberger, built in 1871 according to plans by Ludwig von Zettl (today also part of the SAS Palais Hotel ); According to the original plans of the city expansion fund, the new Vienna City Hall should have been built on this plot, but it was then built on the Ringstrasse.
No. 5 and No. 7: two residential and commercial buildings by Hermann Krackowizer in the style of the New Vienna Renaissance with pilasters, balconies on the first floor and grotesque paintings ( listed ). The Nitsch Foundation has been located in No. 5 since 2009 and tries to support and convey the position of the artist Hermann Nitsch and his total work of art. From 1884 to approx. 1918, the Austrian Railway Directorate resided in No. 7 .
No. 8: Neo-Renaissance tenement house, built in 1872 by Ferdinand Schlaf, with pilaster gate and segmented gable, additive gable windows and inside a typical Viennese pawlatschenhof (listed).
No. 12: Realgymnasium für Musik und Kunst (BORG), built 1868–1870 by Heinrich von Ferstel .
No. 14: Upper secondary school Hegelgasse, built 1883–1885 by Dominik Avanzo and Paul Lange .
No. 19: House of Johann Romano von Rings and August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg from 1868 (listed).