Heiligenstadt Bridge

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The Heiligenstädter Brücke crosses the Danube Canal in Vienna and connects the districts of Döbling and Brigittenau .

location

View from Brigittenauer Lände (20th Bzk.) Towards the Pressehaus (19th Bzk.)

The Heiligenstädter Bridge forms the link between Gundoldstrasse in Döbling and Lorenz-Müller-Gasse in Brigittenau. Important, nearby buildings are on the Döblinger side the Heiligenstadt train station ( Franz-Josefs-Bahn ), the seat of the Kronen Zeitung , the vacant tower of the APA and the Karl-Marx-Hof , and on the Brigittenau side the Dr.-Adolf-Schärf- Home .

history

1888-1945

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I , the City of Vienna decided to build a bridge over the Danube Canal. The plans for the new building came from Karl Haberkalt († 1939; age: 82), the work was carried out by the Gridl company from Vienna, completed on August 18, 1889. The name " Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Regierungs- Jubilee Bridge "approved. This monster name did not prevail, however, as early as October 4, 1889, when the Land Marshal of Lower Austria , Christian Graf von Kinsky zu Wichnitz und Tettau (1822-1894) opened the new bridge, it was commonly called the Heiligenstädter Bridge . After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy , this name was officially given in 1919. The bridge, which is 61.8 meters long and 16 meters wide and covered with wooden pavement on the lanes , was designed for a load of 18-ton steam tramway locomotives (1907–1940: Line 34), but from 1913 traffic had to be restricted via this traffic structure because fatigue occurred. In 1937, when a tram train was crossing, no other vehicle was allowed to load the bridge at the same time. In April 1945, the bridge of retreating German troops was blasting destroyed.

In connection with the construction of the bridge, on the left side of the Danube Canal (on 345 m² construction area; ) a consumption tax line office was built under the name "Brigittenau", which is responsible for the clearance of taxable items and the collection of road tolls on October 4th It began in 1889 at noon . World icon

1948-1950

Between 1947 and 1948 the bridge was provisionally repaired and opened on July 17th by Mayor Theodor Körner as the 90th bridge repaired after the war in Vienna. On November 27, 1959, this 550-ton long-term temporary structure, made of pioneering equipment, was moved 4½ meters up the canal by 40 men so as not to be in the way when the new bridge was built.

1959– today

Between 1959 and 1961, according to a design by Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Karl Jäger rebuilt the Heiligenstadt Bridge as a reinforced concrete bridge. Mayor Franz Jonas opened the new bridge on December 16, 1961, according to city hall correspondence, as the 136th bridge built in Vienna (with the bridges of the former Greater Vienna ).

From 2020/2021 the Heiligenstädter Bridge is to be completely renovated as part of the city of Vienna's major bridge renovation plan.

Others

The building, which existed until 1945, was the location of the film Frau im Strom (Director: Gerhard Lamprecht , 1897–1974), published in 1939 , in which Hertha Feiler (1916–1970) seeks to end her life by jumping off the bridge. In the film, the Heiligenstädter Brücke structure is named, at which the main actor Attila Hörbiger (1896–1987) gets out of a tram from line 34 (which ran there until 1940) at the beginning of the plot .

literature

  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: The city and the electricity. Vienna and the Danube . Dachs-Verlagsges.mbH, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-113-6 .
  • Walter Hufnagel (Ed.): Crossings. Bridges - City - Vienna . Sappl, Kufstein 2002, ISBN 3-902154-05-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emperor Franz Joseph's Government Jubilee Bridge over the Danube Canal near Heiligenstadt. In:  Der Bautechniker , No. 40/1889 (IX. Year), October 4, 1889, p. 581 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction.
  2. ^ Opening of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Government Jubilee Bridge. In:  Das Vaterland , No. 273/1889 (XXX. Year), October 5, 1889, p. 6 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / possibly.
  3. ↑ No monarchical street names. Renaming of numerous streets and squares. (…) Bridges. In:  Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung , No. 7129/1919 (XXth year), November 8, 1919, p. 2, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short.
  4. ↑ Bridges against traffic. In:  Salzburger Volksblatt , No. 128/1937 (LXVII. Volume), June 8, 1937, p. 6, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / svb.
  5. ^ Heiligenstädter Brücke in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  6. ↑ Announcements. (...) announcement. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung (…) , No. 228/1889, October 3, 1889, p. 509, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 40 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 3 ″  E