Herrengasse (Vienna)
The Herrengasse is a street in the first Viennese district, the Inner City .
history
The course of the road goes back to the Roman Limes Road . It was first mentioned in a document in 1216. The section between Freyung and Augustinerstrasse was known as the Hochstrasse in the Middle Ages . Due to the proximity to the Hofburg , the residence of the Habsburgs , the nobility preferred to settle here, i.e. in the immediate vicinity of the imperial palace.
In 1513 the Lower Austrian estates ( gentlemen ) built their country house here . The street has been called Herrengasse since 1547. To this day there are numerous formerly aristocratic palaces in Herrengasse, but most of them have been converted into office use. Today, however, the term palace is also used for apartment buildings from the Wilhelminian era or the former building of the Austro-Hungarian bank .
Redesign to a meeting zone
On March 9, 2016, after two years of planning, the redesign of the 430 m long alley and the 120 m long Fahnengasse / Wallnerstraße area into a meeting zone was presented. Bicycle traffic, public buses, motor vehicles and Fiakers were limited to a speed of 20 km / h.
Except for the bus stop at Michaelerplatz, the entire width of the street was paved on a continuous level to make walking more comfortable. Routes for the bus have been marked out with contrasting paving.
The financing of the redesign in the amount of 5.5 to 6 million € was done - in a novel way - by the 10 to 15 house owners according to the length of the building fronts - including the Ministry of the Interior. The neighbors have contractually committed to this and have worked together in the "Herrengasse + Initiative". The City of Vienna (MA 31) bore the costs of renewing the water supply of € 480,000.
The new encounter zone was opened on December 1, 2016.
Striking buildings
- No. 1 and 3: Palais Herberstein (built in 1897 instead of Palais Dietrichstein with the famous Café Griensteidl )
- No. 5: Palais Brassican-Wilczek (formerly Palais Lembruch, 1737)
- No. 7: Palais Modena (1811); 1872–1918 seat of the Imperial and Royal Prime Minister , today the Ministry of the Interior
- Herrengasse underground station : The U3 station, which opened in 1991, has one of its two entrances in Fahnengasse , a short side street.
- No. 6 and 8: Herrengasse skyscraper , also Fahnengasse 2 and Wallnerstrasse 5-7, the first skyscraper in Vienna, built in place of the Liechtenstein Palace, which was demolished in 1913
- No. 9: Palais Mollard-Clary (1689)
- No. 10: The Herrenhof café was located here from 1914 to 2006 ; the building used as a hotel is owned by a foundation left by Karl Wlaschek in 2015 .
- No. 11: Palais Niederösterreich (formerly Niederösterreichisches Landhaus, built 1839–1848, seat of the Lower Austrian provincial government until 1996)
- No. 14: Palais Ferstel (formerly Austro-Hungarian bank, 1856–1860, also Freyung 2), on the ground floor there is the Café Central , in a passage of the Danube Mermaid fountain .
- No. 19: Palais Batthyány (includes parts of the former Palais Orsini-Rosenberg, 1716; the building is owned by a foundation bequeathed by Karl Wlaschek in 2015. )
- No. 21: Palais Trauttmansdorff (1834–1838)
- No. 23: Palais Porcia (1546)
literature
- Rupert Feuchtmüller : Die Herrengasse , Vienna (Zsolnay) 1982
- Iris Meder, Judith Eiblmayr: Haus Hoch - The Herrengasse high-rise building and its famous residents , Metroverlag, Vienna 2009.
- Iris Meder, Judith Eiblmayr: Tour de Palais , Vienna 2015.
Web links
- rodaun.info - Herrengasse (PDF file)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2328894/ Herrengasse: residents pay for the encounter zone, orf.at, March 9, 2016, accessed March 9, 2016.
- ^ ORF report on the opening, December 1, 2016
- ^ Karl Wlaschek's real estate in the first district of Vienna , in: Falter (weekly newspaper) , No. 33/2015, August 12, 2015, p. 16
- ^ Karl Wlaschek's real estate in the first district of Vienna , in: Falter (weekly newspaper) , No. 33/2015, August 12, 2015, p. 16
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 34.7 " N , 16 ° 21 ′ 56.7" E