Heiligenstadt Park

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Heiligenstadt Park
Founding stone for Heiligenstädter Park

The Heiligenstädter Park is a 9- hectare city ​​park, which is located in the Heiligenstadt district of the 19th district of Vienna Döbling . It was built under Mayor Karl Lueger at the beginning of the 20th century.

history

The beginning of the facility was preceded by the discovery of a mineral spring from Roman times in 1781, which gave rise to the Heiligenstädter Bad with spa garden. This was located east of the Heiligenstadt parish church of St. Michael at today's address Grinzinger Straße 84-86. 1845 was (on 1 May of the year opened) device to Joseph and Leopoldine Kugler ( Kuglerbad and Kugler Park ), the interested parties from the inner-city New Market with their own trains running every hour social car to swimming school, cold and Warmbad-Anstalt brought. Kugler, who as owner of the bathing establishment also ran the associated restaurant ( casino ) and also rented rooms on the property, expanded the building in front of the park in the first two years, among other things he built a theater arena , which is under the management of the brother of Wenzel Scholz (1787–1857). In 1860 the public assumed that the water used in the bathing establishment came from the Nestelbach , which flowed through the bathing area from west to east (and was not yet vaulted in those years). Kugler contradicted the claim by pointing out that the water from the torrent was used exclusively to drive a lifting machine for the bathing water fed by the well.

The changes in the water table caused by the regulation of the Danube in 1870–1875 reduced the output of the mineral spring every year, but did little to change the popularity of Kugler's Park and its amusement parks. Kugler's Bad in the (then) Grinzingerstraße 28 was listed in this form for the last time in 1882 in Adolph Lehmann ’s general apartment indicator , from 1883 the full baths and baths now in the Curpark , including the swimming school, were owned by Adolf Abraham Goldschmidt († 1890 in Vienna), a property owner, whose widow Anna née Fried (* 1856 in Prague), remarried to Emil Laski (* 1851 in Hamburg; from 1882 in the Wiener Bankverein ), sold her along with other local properties to the municipality of Vienna in 1900 after the bath (on Grinzingerstraße 84 ) had already been closed from 1896.

Beethoven monument

In 1900 the municipality of Vienna created a park that was named Kuglerpark until 1905 , from 1936–1949 it was named Kuhnpark (after Wenzel Kuhn , 1854–1933) , then Heiligenstädter Park. Was on the east side of the park on June 28, 1910 by Robert Weigl (1851-1902) created in the model of Fritz Hänlein in (1864-1946) Carrara marble executed by Robert Oerley (1876-1945) architectural set Beethovendenkmal unveiled and taken over by Mayor Josef Neumayer (1844–1923) into the care of the municipality of Vienna.

In 1977 parts of the former so-called Rothschild Gardens were included in the southern area . In 1882 Nathaniel Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild acquired large areas of the Hohe Warte and built a botanical garden there. The baron donated the proceeds that the family achieved from the tickets to the Vienna Voluntary Rescue Society . A Japanese garden, numerous glass houses, a gatehouse and a villa were built in the late historical style in the manorial garden.

Former gatehouse of the Rothschild Gardens (Geweygasse 6)

The " Rothschild Gardens " were "Aryanized" in 1938 . The villa and the complex with the valuable plants were destroyed, only the gatehouse (Geweygasse 6) remained. Individual elements were housed elsewhere, for example, trellis trees came to the Austrian Horticultural Museum in Oberlaa (now in the former orangery of the Vienna Kagran Horticultural School) and a marble Venus figure by Antardini was placed in the large greenhouse of the municipal reserve gardens in Vienna. The garden was returned to the family after the war, but came into the possession of the municipality of Vienna in 1950 through a donation. The gatehouse is a listed building.

In 1982 the scout group 83 " Baden-Powell " moved into the former porter's house, in 1984 the rangers and rovers of the group got a second home called Dr. Werner Habicher Heim carries. The first home burned down at Easter 1992 but was soon restored.

The slope of the Arsenal terrace in the Heiligenstadt Park, according to the Vienna Geotopkartierung 1999 worthy of protection Geotop . In the embankment towards the Nesselbachtal in the area of ​​the Heiligenstädter Park, in some places, especially near the elementary school and the parish hall, the subsoil of the old Pleistocene terrace base, young tertiary fine sediments ( Sarmat ) can be seen. The edge of the terrace is an important fossil site of the late Middle Pleistocene in loess . Mammoth tusks, mammoth skulls and the remains of other mammals from the Ice Age have already been found in the brick pits in Heiligenstadt .

literature

  • DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X .
  • Schwarz, Godehard: Döbling. Ten cultural-historical walks through Vienna's 19th district , Edition Volkshochschule, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900 799-563 .
  • Berger, Eva: Historical gardens of Austria: Vienna. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-205-99477-0 .

Web links

Commons : Heiligenstädter Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Kugler:  Notice. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Supplement General Intelligence Gazette, No. 107/1845, April 18, 1845, p. 560, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  2. ↑ Joseph Kugler:  J. Kugler's society car. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Supplement General Intelligence Gazette, No. 205/1847, July 27, 1847, p. 131, top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  3. ^ Wiener Tags-Courier. In:  Der Humorist , No. 56/1848 (XII. Year), March 6, 1848, p. 224, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / hum.
  4. ↑ Joseph Kugler:  Explanation. In:  Fremd -Blatt , No. 160/1860 (XIV. Year), June 10, 1860, p. 7 (unpaginated), top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fdb.
  5. ↑ DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, p. 609.
  6. ↑ Unveiling of the Beethoven monument. In:  Wiener Abendpost. Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , No. 145/1910, June 28, 1910, p. 6, center right. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  7. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature. "Our Beethoven". In:  Deutsches Volksblatt / Deutsches Volksblatt. Radical medium-sized organ / telegraph. Radical Mittelstandsorgan / Deutsches Volksblatt. Daily newspaper for Christian German politics , morning edition, No. 7718/1910 (XXII. Year), June 29, 1910, p. 10 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dvb.
  8. ^ Berger, Eva: Historical Gardens of Austria: Vienna. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2004, p. 470f.
  9. ↑ List of listed objects in Vienna / Döbling

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 8 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 29 ″  E