Kundratstrasse

Kundratstrasse
Street in Vienna
Basic data
place	Vienna
District	10th district , 12th district
Created	1897
Connecting roads	Davidgasse , Kastanienallee
Cross streets	Triester Strasse , Karplusgasse, Köglergasse, Kerschensteinergasse, Unter-Meidlinger Strasse
Buildings	Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital , Meidling Accident Hospital
use
User groups	Pedestrians , bicycle traffic , car traffic , bus route 7A 63A
Road design	avenue
Technical specifications
Street length	approx. 1130 m

The Kundratstraße is a street in the Vienna municipal districts 10, Favorites , and 12, Meidling . Between the Gürtel and Wienerbergstrasse it is the only connection from Triester Strasse to the west. Kundratstrasse has been named after the pathologist Johann Kundrat since 1897 .

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The avenue of Kundratstrasse

Kundratstrasse runs from Triester Strasse as an extension of Davidgasse to the west. After a few meters it turns in a curve to the southwest and runs parallel to the tracks of the Südbahn next to the ÖBB - operating facilities Vienna Matzleinsdorf (on the site of the former freight station Matzleinsdorf ) to Unter-Meidlinger Straße . Before that, the connection to Längenfeldgasse, which branches off to the north and crosses the southern line, creates a route into the Wiental. From Triester Straße to Karplusgasse, Kundratstraße is a favorite, from Karplusgasse to Unter-Meidlinger Straße to Meidling. The entire course of the road is an avenue and is accompanied by a cycle path. The bus lines 7A and 63A of Wiener Linien travel on different sections of the road.

Kundratstrasse runs along the foot of the Wienerberg . Only the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital has been located here since the end of the 19th century . Later allotment gardens extended on the slopes of the southern railway. It was not until the late 1950s that large residential complexes were gradually built along the street. This development only recently ended.

Kundratstrasse is known to other sections of the population mainly because of the hospitals located here.

Remarkable buildings on Kundratstrasse

Martin Luther King Park

At the eastern beginning of Kundratstrasse, in the gusset between this and Triester Strasse, is the Martin-Luther-King-Park in front of the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital, which is named after the murdered black civil rights activist Martin Luther King . Until the Second World War, the area was fenced and inaccessible to the public. The approximately 14,500 m² green area has many trees, has a children's playground and a demarcated dog area and is shielded from the busy Triester Straße with a small wall.

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No. 3 and 17: Social Medical Center South - Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital

After the park, the extensive Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital complex begins south of the street , which also extends between Kundratstraße and Triester Straße. It was built from 1887 (1888: 40th anniversary of the emperor's reign) according to plans by Karl Böhm and Michael Fellner in a pavilion construction. It initially served as an infection hospital, which is why it was built far outside the city's residential areas at the time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the building complex consisted of three medical, one surgical and one isolated infection department with twelve objects. There were also administration, living, kitchen and farm buildings, a chapel, a bathhouse, a doctor's building, a morgue and an institute for the production of serum against diphtheria. During the Second World War, two thirds of the hospital was destroyed and rebuilt from 1951 onwards.

In the past, the entrance to the hospital from Triester Straße was at the beginning of the facility. There is also a central pavilion lofted to a tower, in front of which there is a bust of Emperor Franz Joseph I from the end of the 19th century. At Pavilion D there is a ceramic mosaic by Elisabeth Turolt and Paul Meissner from 1953 with the motif of the Good Samaritan .

Today the entrance to the hospital and the entrance to his underground car park are further west at no. 17, roughly in the middle of Kundratstrasse. There is also the new building of a large geriatric center, which is part of the "Social Medicine Center Vienna South".

The listed hospital chapel of the Divine Redeemer was built in 1890/1891 and was originally dedicated to St. Barbara . It is a free-standing hall church with a single-tower facade. Next to the portal are statues of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and Francis of Assisi . Inside, a neo-renaissance aedical altar with reliefs of the crucified Christ and Saint Barbara is worth mentioning, as well as a small organ, statutes of various saints and the original pews, the confessional and the tiled floor from the construction period.

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  Orientation plan

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  Headquarters

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  Emperor Franz Josef bust

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  Emperor Franz Josef bust in detail

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  Rear of the management building

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  "Good Samaritan" mosaic

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  Entrance pavilion

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  European hamsters live on the hospital grounds

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  Hospital chapel

No. 5: Church of St. Catherine of Siena

Parish Church of St. Catherine of Siena

This wooden assembly church by Ottokar Uhl from 1967 was originally dedicated to the Exaltation of the Cross and is therefore known as the Holy Cross Church. It was made according to a new type of construction with glued wood beams . As an emergency church, it should be mobile and meet the changing needs of pastoral care. In 1970 the church was rotated 90 degrees. In 1988 the new consecration to Saint Catherine of Siena took place . The former temporary solution has now become a permanent solution, as thousands of apartments have been built in Kundratstrasse, the residents of which are looked after by the parish church. A parish kindergarten was built next to the church, the side facing the church is rounded. The church is a listed building.

No. 6: K6

At the eastern beginning of Kundratstrasse on the northern side of the street opposite Martin-Luther-King-Park is the high-rise K6, which was built in 2007. This forms a highly visible urban accent between the Matzleinsdorf high-rise and the twin towers on the Wienerberg. It was designed by the architects Bettina Götz and Richard Manahl and the Neumann architectural office . The actual high-rise rises on a three-storey rectangular base structure in which shops and offices are located. It is elliptical and measures 70 meters in the longitudinal and 26 meters in the transverse axis. The elliptical component consists exclusively of apartments, with glazed loggias arranged all around, offset by floor.

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No. 16: Residential buildings and apprentice home

ÖBB apprentice home with sculpture "Railway, rail, future"

Opposite the Franz-Josefs-Spital there used to be allotment gardens on the embankment to the southern runway. A large cooperative residential complex was built here at the end of the 20th century. Then there is an apprentice dormitory and an education center of the Austrian Federal Railways , in front of whose entrance there is a large metal sculpture.

No. 33–35: Municipal housing

Already belonging to Meidling, a large urban residential complex between Kundratstrasse, Köglergasse, Karplusgasse and Unter-Meidlinger Strasse was built here from 1957 to 1959 according to plans by the architects Friedrich Euler, Herbert Thurner, Wilhelm Gehrke, Gerhard Kolbe, Karl Maria Lang and Maria Petter. The works of art within the facility are now either in poor condition (sculptures Two Resting by Hilde Uray , Reclining Female Figure by Georg Zauner, Children's Slide with Basin by Rudolf Friedl ) or have already disappeared (Striding male figure by Josef Pillhofer , mosaic Windrose by Arnulf Neuwirth ) .

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  Reclining female figure by Georg Zauner

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  Two resting by Hilde Uray

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  Children's slide by Rudolf Friedl

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  Wind rose by Arnulf Neuwirth

No. 37: Meidling Accident Hospital

The Meidling Accident Hospital of the General Accident Insurance Fund (AUVA) was built between 1953 and 1955 according to plans by the architects Wolfgang Bauer and Adolf Hoch . It is Austria's largest accident hospital in terms of patient and operation frequency. Here 65 doctors perform more than 7000 operations every year. The hospital has been continuously modernized and redesigned since 1996. There is a helicopter landing pad and the Meidling rehabilitation center on the site .

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Meidlinger Friedhof

Meidlinger Friedhof, on the far left Kundratstrasse

The Meidlinger Friedhof stretches across from the trauma hospital , the newer part of which has an entrance here.

literature

• Herbert Tschulk: Viennese district culture guide Favoriten , Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-224-16255-4
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Laaer-Berg-Straße. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 636 ( digitized version ).
• Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District , Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996

Web links

Commons : Kundratstraße  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 28 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 56"  E