Herrnau
Herrnau , together with Josefiau and the Alpensiedlung , is part of the Salzburg-Süd district in the city of Salzburg .
In the east, the settlement area is bounded by the Alpine Road , one of the city's most important arterial roads; In the west, the Hellbrunner Straße and the Eschenbach, behind which the Salzburg-Süd protected landscape area with the Freisaal moated castle lies, form the border. The Alpine settlement is located south of Herrnau, beginning with the building of the Salzburg State Police Department . The Josefiau connects to the east of the Alpenstrasse and north of Michael-Pacher-Strasse and is largely characterized by single-family houses.
history
About the name: The name Herrnau is derived from the term “Au” used by the noble lords and originally referred to a part of the mighty Auwaldsaumes between Hellbrunner Allee and the Salzach . The word Au is derived from the Old High German word ouwa "Land am Wasser" or "Land im Wasser" (Middle High German ouwe ). In 1574, the Herrnau first appeared as part of the Hellbrunner Aue (later Josefiau). In 1631 the Herrenhof Herrnau ( Herrnau Castle , today Eschenbachgasse 21) was built. It is the northernmost castle on the east side of Hellbrunner Allee and was also called Christanihof for a long time (named after Christani di Rallo, chancellor under Archbishop Firmian and an authoritative dogmatist in the course of the eviction of Protestants ).
The district emerged in its beginnings before 1950 in the immediate vicinity of Herrnau Castle. The architect Otto Ponholzer , who also worked as a consultant to the Wüstenrot Bausparkasse , designed a new residential building model here. Otto Ponholzer was also Vice Mayor ( FPÖ ) of the city of Salzburg. Many refugees found a new home here. In the course of the construction of the Herrnau Bausparer Estate, two symmetrical six-storey residential towers were planned as a new gateway to the city on both sides of the Alpenstrasse (of which only the western tower was built). Behind it, single-family houses and terraced houses with spacious gardens were built in a steady rhythm. These oldest parts of the settlement are today in the south of the settlement between the landscape protection area Salzburg-Süd and the Fischer-von-Erlach -Straße. Many larger residential buildings in this district date from around 1970. In the north of the settlement (north of Michael-Pacher-Strasse or Faistauergasse ) the Josefiau single-family houses are adjacent. The Josefiau also includes the official buildings of the office of the Salzburg state government north of Michael-Pacher-Straße.
Similar to the other two parts of Salzburg-Süd - the Josefiau and the Alpine settlement - as a settlement area, Herrnau only emerged in the course of the large influx of people and the growth of the city of Salzburg in the later 20th century. Today, Herrnau is primarily a residential area, with the building structure being dominated by the residential blocks built later .
The parish church of Sankt Erentrudis
Archbishop Andreas Rohracher planned a large church as a new religious center on the edge of the sister settlement owned by the monastery , where, in addition to the rectory, the Eucharists expelled from Bohemia should find a new home in a monastery. From 1958 to 1962 the parish church of St. Erentrudis , a sacred building with a modern design language, was built by the architect Robert Kramreiter .
It should be a "house of God of peace" that invites you to "linger and walk in peace". The fortress-like circular walls of the church complex open up to the front in a fan-like manner to form a wide and spacious open atrium (architecture) . The church tower also remains open on one side. The church itself is designed as a large, monumentally colored church window on one side. The small chapel of the Eucharistic Sisters repeats in their own way the motifs of the large church building.
Herrnau today
Herrnau is home to an elementary school, the secondary school for the teacher training college and two kindergartens. Architecturally very distinctive - and not a little controversial - is the headquarters of Wüstenrot in the south of Herrnau. During the renovation of the building, the facade was clad on the outside with obliquely offset metal grids. The central point for the district is the center of Herrnau shopping center on the corner of Alpenstrasse and Friedensstrasse. The aim of the construction was to create a kind of town center in which shops, apartments and bars are housed in one complex.
In the regional capital's public transport network , Herrnau is served by lines 3, 8, 22 and 28.
Personalities
- Felix Baumgartner , extreme athlete
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '7.4 " N , 13 ° 3' 49.3" E