Villach suburb
| 8. Klagenfurt district of Villacher Vorstadt |
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| surface | 2.03 km² |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 37 ′ N , 14 ° 18 ′ E |
| height | 445 m above sea level A. |
| Residents | 8362 (January 1, 2020) 4119 inhabitants per km² |
| Post Code | 9020, 9010 |
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The Villacher Vorstadt is the 8th district of the city of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ( Austria ).
geography
The Villacher Vorstadt is located west of the Klagenfurt city center. The district borders in the east on Villacher Ring and Rosentaler Strasse, runs in the south along the Wieginasse - Schmelzhüttenstrasse - Goethestrasse - Bahnstrasse - Humboldtstrasse, in the west along Josef-Gruber-Strasse - Egger-Lienz-Weg - Linsengasse - Adolf- Tschabuschnigg-Straße - Schießstattweg, includes part of the Kreuzbergl in the north and continues along Ziggullnstraße - Schloßweg - Aichelburg-Labia-Straße - Herbertstraße.
history
The Villacher Vorstadt is part of the historical urban area of Klagenfurt and includes the area that was west of the former city wall. It was connected to the city center via the Villacher Tor (today: Stauderplatz). In 1893 the Villach suburb was expanded slightly.
Priest house on the Lend Canal
The German Reich also sat in the new priest's house in Tarviserstrasse, from 1940 the Reich Minister for Church Affairs, from 1942 the Reich Ministry of Finance and from 1943 the Reich Minister of the Interior in the land register. NSDAP offices were located in the house. In order to save the party employees detours, a wooden walkway was built over the Lend by the technical emergency aid in 1942. It was replaced by a concrete bridge in 1955.
Administrative division
Together with the four districts of Klagenfurt city center and the districts of St. Veiter Vorstadt , Völkermarkter Vorstadt and Viktringer Vorstadt, the Villacher Vorstadt forms the cadastral municipality of Klagenfurt.
population
Due to its proximity to the Wörthersee, this district is one of the most popular residential areas in the state capital. The northern part of the district, at the foot of the Kreuzbergl, developed into the Klagenfurt "villa district", in which some villas in the so-called Wörthersee style were built and which, along with the city center, has now become the most expensive residential area in the city. Of the eight inner-city districts that formed historic Klagenfurt before the first incorporation and urban expansion in 1938, the Villach suburb is by far the most populous with 8,177 inhabitants. More people live here than in the larger suburbs of Viktring , Hörtendorf or St. Ruprecht .
The proportion of foreigners is 10.8%, which is slightly above the average for the entire city (9.2%).
Parishes and Churches
The district north of the Lend Canal belongs to the parish of St. Egid with the branch churches:
- Christ the King Church
- Kreuzbergl Church
The district south of the Lenkanal belongs to the cathedral parish and has no branch church in the district.
The largest Protestant church in the city is located on the Lend Canal, the Johanneskirche, one of the two Protestant parish churches in Klagenfurt.
Development planning of free areas
It was extremely difficult to bring all interests under one roof. More than 100 clubs also wanted to be taken into account when making decisions.
The council of St. Martin behaved very differently. In 1897, a bold regulatory plan for new roads in the southern part of the municipality had been adopted there. It contained the most important streets, the Tarviser Strasse accompanying the Lend Canal, the Anzengruberstrasse and parts of the current Koschatstrasse and Sterneckstrasse with their cross streets. The main streets with sidewalks had a considerable width of 12 m and should only be built with two-story residential buildings. And it was also said: “The construction of free spaces will be taken into account as soon as the beginning of the construction process results in the need for them and the places where they are to be constructed are known.” Incidentally, this never happened.
Parks at Villacher Ring
Finally, the new part of the city got its face and the old town came to its parks. The remnants of city walls, bastions and moats gave way to a general redesign, and the ring roads took their place. On the city side, the Villacher Ring remained free of any construction. A city park was created at the foot of the Heiligengeistschütt, which was also to bear this name. But before it opened in 1905, the city fathers remembered the 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich von Schiller, who had been friends with Herbert's Klagenfurt family, and quickly planted a schillean oak and named the green area Schillerpark. Some exotic species then belonged to the tree population. Ingeborg Bachmann from Klagenfurt had her tree experience with a tulip tree. “On beautiful October days, coming from Radetzkystraße, you can see a group of trees in the sun next to the city theater. The first tree to stand in front of those dark red cherry trees that bear no fruit is so aflame from autumn, such an immoderately golden stain that it looks like a torch that an angel has dropped, and now it is burning, and autumn wind and frost cannot extinguish it. ”At the end of the war in 1945 things looked bad here. The National Socialists had driven an air raid shelter into the Heiligengeistschütt and dug fragmentation trenches in the park; the enemy bombing raids had left bomb craters and tattered treetops. The English occupation forces leveled the park with bulldozers, and the lawn was replaced by a vegetable garden in the people's kitchen. In 1923 another park was laid out on the other side of Radetzkystraße, and in 1929 it was given the rosarium as a splendor and centerpiece. The new park in front of the "Herbertstöckl" was initially called Herbertpark and in 1930 became Goethepark. The construction of the Schubert Park began in 1925. There was great resistance because up until then the horse market and the weekly pig market were located there, from which the surrounding shops and inns also benefited. The redesign of the 28,000 square meter area dragged on until 1935 and came to an end with the high-jet fountain, which was replaced by the fire-fighting basin of the city theater.
Residential area
Development of the area at the foot of the Kreuzbergl
The first concrete result of the street planning was Herbertstraße in 1893. In the late 1890s and after the turn of the century, things continued in quick succession. Apartment buildings with neo-Romanist décor and tower-like roof structures grew out of the ground on Khevenhüllerstrasse. The generously laid out Koschatstrasse was given a closed ensemble of buildings with uniform plinth and eaves lines and the same storey heights with a coordinated color scheme. Radetzkystraße, with its axial effect in a striking location, resulted in a uniform facade line in the historicizing style. The Sterneckstraße got the imposing building complex of the post and telegraph headquarters.
Client Johann Kobenter
In addition to these large buildings, tasteful villas were built by private clients throughout the quarter. The most extraordinary among them was the couple Johann and Aloisia Kobenter. It erected at least 31 villa-like buildings, ten of them north of the Lend Canal on Linsengasse, eight on Fercherstrasse, five on Rizzistrasse and five on Tarviser Strasse. When Johann Kobenter turned to this business in 1892, he was in his fifties, well-known war veteran, advisor to the Red Cross, honorary board member of the military veterans' association. His swollen chest was adorned with silver medals of valor, first and second class, and the papal cross of honor pro ecclesia et pontifice. At home he had six children born to him by his wife.
At an advanced age, the former sergeant started buying up and parceling land with his wife in order to have houses built on them or to sell the separating pieces as building sites. These campaigns were financed with loans. In the plot division plans, a new street to be laid out is called Kobenterstraße and the name Louisengrund appears once for a number of deposits in the Grundbruch. It is bought and sold non-stop. The couple appears as a developer and submits building plans, applies for a building permit, requests the allocation of house numbers and asks for tax exemption for new buildings. There is a lot going on in Linsengasse and the neighboring streets, one villa after another is being built. An example of their approach: In 1901 Johann and Aloisia Kobenter signed a purchase agreement with the Gösselingen real estate owner König at Schiffgasse 2, with which he gave them the fields 673 and 674 with a total area of 8,300 m² for a flat rate of 12,000 kroner. The couple paid 5000 crowns as a down payment. The parcelling then resulted in building sites between 400 and 700 m² in size.
In Linsengasse 38, after a restless life, Johann Kobenter died on July 13, 1911 at the age of 75 of pneumonia. In 1912 his daughter Johanna appeared as a builder.
School buildings
During this period there was also a considerable increase in schools. Ten schools were built in Klagenfurt within a decade and a half, the last being the West School on Lerchenfeldstrasse. The opening brought the year 1910, but the First World War brought this development and the economic boom to an abrupt end. As a result, this sector came to a complete standstill, and it was not until 1954 that the city became active again in the district with the establishment of the Realgymnasium and Realschule in Lerchenfeldstrasse opposite the Westschule.
Buildings and sights
- Lendhafen and Lendkanal with stone bridge: in the 8th district, the Lendkanal ends directly in front of the former city wall (Lendhafen). The canal used to be used as a water supply and as a transport route for bringing in goods for the Klagenfurt markets. The Elisabethsteg over the Lendhafen was opened in the presence of Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I on September 4, 1856 when they first visited Carinthia and Klagenfurt. The stone bridge over the Lend Canal is the oldest bridge in Carinthia and the oldest surviving structure in the state capital.
- "Fortress" in Richard Wagner Strasse 20
- Klagenfurt Botanical Garden
- Klagenfurt Mining Museum
- Kk Feintuchfabrik Thys and former garrison hospital from the 18th century at Lerchenfeldstrasse 51
- Switbert Lobisser's home and studio : The three-storey building, built in 1933 according to plans by Karl Keller as a home and studio by Switbert Lobisser, is located at Lobisserweg number 2. The brick-built ground floor rests on the basement, and above it the wooden first floor with a roof. The facades present themselves with a painted frieze from 1933/35 and two reliefs carved from the wooden beams of the upper floor. Roman stones from Tiffen are walled in at the corners of the house. The interior is from the 1930s.
- Henselstrasse: After the First World War , construction activity only slowly picked up again. From 1927 to 1930, so-called Papageno houses were built in Henselstraße according to designs by FL Freyer, a row of houses with front gardens for employees and civil servants' families.
Stone bridge over the Lend Canal
"Fortress" in Richard-Wagner-Straße 20 (west view)
Lobisser's home and studio
Henselstrasse 2
Kreuzbergl
In the north of the district is Klagenfurt's local mountain, the 517 m high Kreuzbergl . The mountain was called Wölfnitzberg until 1742, after which it was called Steinbruchberg or Steinbruchkogel due to the occurrence of chlorite slate. The botanical garden is located on the site of the former quarry . In 1692 the rural border paymaster Christian Anton von Leyersperg erected a large cross at today's place of the church, from 1737 the church and the calvary complex (inaugurated in 1778), which were later redesigned as a national memorial for the fallen (inaugurated in 1959). The people immediately called the mountain Kalvarienberg and later Kreuzbergl. The stone lookout tower was built in 1895 in place of a wooden one, later it became the base for an observatory that opened in 1965.
gallery
Domenico Venchiarutti's villa on Villacher Ring No. 11
Villa Kloss, a cubic single-family house from 1930, built by FL Freyer, in Beethovenstraße 25
Corner of Herbertstraße and Khevenhüllerstraße
View from Kreuzbergl
Economy and Infrastructure
In this district are the Klagenfurt Accident Hospital, the Mariahilf Sanatorium, the Kreuzbergl recreation area with observation tower and observatory, the ORF regional studio Carinthia, the Klagenfurt fire brigade, the post office and Lend train station.
The district is connected to the Carinthia S-Bahn with the Klagenfurt Lend train station. The S1 line runs from Lend train station every 30 minutes in the direction of Villach , Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof and St. Veit an der Glan .
The buses of the Stadtwerke Klagenfurt cross the 8th district on several lines:
- Line 10 connects it with Lake Wörthersee, the city center and Ebenthal in Carinthia
- Line 15 connects it with the Westbahnhof, Stauderplatz, Koschatstraße and Klagenfurt Lend station
- Line 20 connects it with Krumpendorf, the Wörthersee, the city center, St. Jakob, Niederdorf and Hörtendorf
- Line 50 connects it with the city center and St. Jakob
- Line 60 connects it with Waidmannsdorf , the city center, Welzenegg and the P&R facility at Cinecity
- Line 61 connects it with Waidmannsdorf , the city center and Welzenegg
- Line 81 connects it with Viktring
- Line 91 connects it with Waidmannsdorf and the Fischlsiedlung
- Line 92 connects it with Krumpendorf , Lake Wörthersee and the city center
- Line 95 connects it with the city center and with St. Jakob
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
