Küniglberg
| Küniglberg | ||
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 View from the Red Mountain to the Küniglberg |
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| height | 261 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Vienna , Austria | |
| Mountains | Vienna Woods | |
| Dominance | 1.47 km → Red Mountain | |
| Notch height | 38 m ↓ S80 at Stranzenbergbrücke | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 10 ′ 51 ″ N , 16 ° 17 ′ 21 ″ E | |
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The Küniglberg is a 261 m high hill on the Lainzer Sattel in the 13th Viennese district Hietzing and represents an extension of the Vienna Woods . The expression Küniglberg is often used as a synonym for the ORF , as the ORF center Küniglberg is located there.
Geography and geology
The Küniglberg is located in the northeastern part of the Hietzing district on the border of the Hietzing and Lainz districts . Neighboring hills are the Rote Berg in the west and the Rosenhügel in the south. The largely built-up hill is the westernmost and highest part of the ridge, which in the area of the Vienna Basin accompanies the Wien River on its right (southern) bank ( Gloriette , Wienerberg , Laaer Berg ).
The subsoil of the Küniglberg consists of gravel and sands from the younger Tertiary , namely the Upper Miocene , which in this area is called Sarmatian . These loose sediments are to be interpreted as marine coastal deposits of the former “Vienna Sea”, which were poured out by short torrents of the nearby Vienna Woods (easternmost foothills of the Alps ). These torrents are the forerunners of today's Lainzerbach and Liesing .
history
According to sources from the City of Vienna, the mountain was named after the imperial procurator Wolfgang Künigl , who administered the property of the Hütteldorf parish in the 16th century . Another interpretation derives the name from a Baron von Künigl, who built a country house on the northern slope of the hill at the end of the 18th century. The name is documented for the first time from 1786 as Am Königlberg .
During the Second World War , the Küniglberg was the location of a flak barracks , from 1969 to 1975 the ORF center planned by the architect Roland Rainer was built here. In addition to the ORF, the Küniglberg is also home to the Lainzer cemetery , numerous residential buildings and an allotment garden. A small area in the north of the hill has remained undeveloped and is used as a local recreation area. The neo-Gothic Hummel Chapel (also Malfatti Chapel), built in 1883 at the highest point of the elevation, was relocated to the 1998 Fritz-Moravec-Steig corner of Fasangartengasse because of the construction of the barracks.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Margarete Platt: The field names in the 10th, 12th and 13th district of Vienna and in Inzersdorf . Dissertation Vienna 1997, pp. 135-136