Crete (Vienna)
The Kreta (also: the Kreta-Viertel ) is a Grätzl (district) in the 10th district of Vienna , Favoriten , and is one of the most densely built-up areas of the city. It is characterized by a dominance of late founding "interest barracks".
Crete is located between Quellenstrasse , Absberggasse , Gudrunstrasse and Kempelengasse in the “furthest corner” of the district. It is also often referred to as the Crete Island, as it is bordered by industrial and traffic areas or, in the west, by a green area that is not generally accessible, in which, among other things, the Laaerberg water reservoir of the 1st Vienna High Spring Pipeline is located.
The boundaries of the district are uncertain: According to Felix Czeike , historic Crete should extend to Geiselbergstrasse in the 11th district , in fact Gudrunstrasse are beyond (east) the Ostbahn and the first two blocks of Geiselbergstrasse (1–5 and 2–14) Typologically a continuation of the Crete district, as is the odd side of Quellenstrasse.
To the south, the quarter borders the Ankerbrot -Gründe, a formerly extensive industrial complex, the northernmost part of which was built in 1982–1985 with a municipal residential complex on Absberggasse, which stretches along Puchsbaumgasse . The former factory building of Ankerbrot is now used culturally, events take place regularly.
The development of the area began at the end of the 19th century, and the area was soon considered to be the poorest and most dangerous in Vienna. The quarter probably got its name after the Greek island of Crete , on which an uprising was in progress from 1896 (see Turkish-Greek War ) - conditions that one believed to be recognizable here. The area is still a social hotspot, even if a sociological structural change ( gentrification ) is currently taking place, especially since people interested in art and culture are also attracted by the subsequent use of the anchor bread factory.
Due to the largely unchanged development with "interest barracks" from the late 19th century, there are hardly any remarkable buildings. At the corner of Hofherrgasse / Erlachgasse there is a community building from the years 1952–1954, which has a portal frame with figurative representations by Wolfgang Schöntal and a stoneware wall relief goat with kid by Georg Ehrlich towards Erlachgasse .
The Grätzl can be reached by tram lines 6 and 11, which serve the Schrankenberggasse and Absberggasse stops. The new southern terminus of line D, which was extended through the Sonnwendviertel in 2019 and crosses the city roughly in a north-south direction, was built north of Gudrunstrasse . The easternmost parts of the Kreta district can be reached from the Geiereckstraße tram stop, the south-eastern terminus of line 6.
Traffic areas in the Grätzl
- Absberggasse (western limit)
- Erlachgasse (parallel to Gudrunstraße)
- Gudrunstraße (west-east crossing in Favoriten)
- Hofherrgasse (first eastern parallel to Absberggasse)
- Kempelengasse (in 1897 for the first time as Thavonatgasse in the street directory, renamed in 1935; third, easternmost parallel to Absberggasse)
- Quellenstrasse (west-east crossing)
- Randhartingergasse (second eastern parallel to Absberggasse)
Web links
- Crete in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Crete quarter: hard, hip patches in the press
- Joseph Gepp - three quarters of a kilometer in Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 3, Vienna 1994, p. 610
- ↑ Ankerbrotgrund residential complex. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on January 16, 2020 .
- ^ Building information on Vienna cultural assets
- ↑ Residential complex Hofherrgasse 5–13. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on January 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Adolph Lehmann , 1897 edition, Volume 1, p. 62
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '28.3 " N , 16 ° 23' 30.9" E