Carmelite Market

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The northeast area of ​​the Carmelite Market

The Karmelitermarkt is a market in Vienna-Leopoldstadt that has officially existed since 1891. It is located in the Karmeliterviertel and is bordered by Leopoldsgasse, Haidgasse, Krummbaumgasse and “Im Werd”.

history

Orthodox Jews on Karmeliterplatz, 1915

After the expulsion of Jews decided by Emperor Leopold I in 1670 , a way was considered to attract new residents. The area in which Leopoldstadt is located today stood empty for almost a whole year. After a while the magistrate asked the emperor to remedy the situation. He then created the market in front of the Karmeliterkirche (at today's Karmeliterplatz), which was held for the first time on October 15, 1671. This existed until 1888. In the time that followed, the stallholders moved to the nearby Karmelitergasse. Since 1910 the market has been located on today's square between the streets of Im Werd, Haid-, Leopolds- and Krummbaumgasse and has an area of ​​over 6,000 m².

During the Second World War, the market was completely destroyed, the reconstruction followed in 1949. The rebuilt Karmelitermarkt was built in blocks of poured concrete with blast furnace slag and cement. Around 110 new market stalls were built during the period of reconstruction. At the reopening, Federal President Theodor Körner gave a speech in which he praised the chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, Rudolf Segel , and the architect, Franz Suppinger .

In the mid-1990s, an underground car park was built under the market area, while the market was modernized and reopened on March 1, 1997.

today

Carmelite Market
Looking north
Looking west
Town houses around the Karmelitermarkt to the east

Today the Carmelite Market is also a place for cultural events. In 2001 the Karmelitermarkt was used as a presentation space for virtual museums for a project called “Enterprise Capricorn”. The Vienna Crime Museum is also located near the market. The market was also used as a location for the crime series Trautmann .

In addition to fruit and vegetable stalls, there is also an Islamic butcher and a fishmonger on the market square . Some of the restaurants offer specialties from Georgia and Turkey  .

The weekly market takes place on Fridays, but especially on the busy Saturday. The majority of the stallholders can then be found from early morning to noon. Some of these are traders, but - and this is what is special - mainly rural producers from the area around Vienna. Since summer 2008, a sponsored area has been reserved for the Slow Food Initiative in the center of the market on Saturday morning .

In addition to the market activities, two bars have also opened since 2010, which are more in the area of ​​in-gastronomy with a new clientele, but whose appearance is rather suspiciously acknowledged by traditional market users.

Name of the place

The area on which the Karmelitermarkt is located was popularly known as the “Marktplatz”, but it had no official name. In 1914 it was proposed to name the square after a deceased city councilor in Karl-Meissl-Platz . However, since Karl-Meißl-Strasse already existed in the 20th district, this was rejected. Subsequently, a name in Krasnikplatz was considered, after the Battle of Kraśnik, which was successful for Austria-Hungary in 1914. Further suggestions were in 1916 Niebauer-Platz (after a deceased district chief), Hindenburg- Platz (after the German field marshal) and Oppenbergerplatz (after a deceased city council). Since all of these proposals were rejected, the place has remained nameless to this day. (The Karmeliterplatz is about 100 meters southeast of the market and has no relation to it.)

literature

  • Helga Gibs: Leopoldstadt - Small world on the big river . Mohl Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900272-54-9 , p. 266-267 .

Web links

Commons : Karmelitermarkt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karmelitermarkt in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Birgit Nemec: Renaming streets in Vienna as media of politics of the past. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2008, p. 72 f

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 3 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 37 ″  E