Löwengasse (Vienna)

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Löwengasse
coat of arms
Street in Wien-Landstrasse (3rd district)
Löwengasse
Löwengasse at the Hundertwasserhaus
Basic data
place Wien-Landstrasse (3rd district)
District Landstrasse , Weißgerberviertel
Created before 1700
Connecting roads Angelo Soliman Way
Cross streets Dampfschiffstraße, Obere Weißgerberstraße, Disslergasse, Radetzkystraße , Dianagasse, Krieglergasse, Custozzagasse, Hetzgasse, blossomsgasse, Kegelgasse, Paracelsusgasse, Rasumofskygasse
Places Radetzkyplatz , Kolonitzplatz, Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz
use
User groups Traffic , tram transport , bus transport , bicycle , foot traffic

The Löwengasse is a street in the 3rd Vienna district highway . It is the most important thoroughfare in the Weißgerber district .

Already in 1700 as a more important street, it has been preserved without straightening despite numerous modifications and the layout of numerous cross streets and squares. Originally only the part away from today's Radetzkyplatz had the name Löwengasse , the upper section was called Kirchengasse . The continuous naming of the street took place before 1873. The name comes from a house sign ( To the golden lion ) on No. 29.

The upper part of the street has been interrupted by the connecting railway since 1859 . At about the same time, the old Weißgerberkirche was demolished and Radetzky and Kolonitzplatz were created. The new parish church of St. Othmar under the white tanners was built on the latter . The upper part of the street is characterized by block-like buildings with strictly historical apartment buildings up to about Hetzgasse, while the lower part is dominated by monumental late-historic residential buildings. Around Paracelsusgasse, the continuation of which is the street courtyard-shaped Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz , there is an almost closed late-historical ensemble with the Palais des Beaux Arts as an outstanding building . A clear accent from more recent times is the Hundertwasser House .

The tram route between Franz-Josefs-Kai and Prater Hauptallee runs through Löwengasse . It crosses the street from Radetzkyplatz for its entire remaining length. The route is currently used by line 1.

At the very beginning, the street merges into Angelo-Soliman-Weg , a passage to the Danube Canal , which was designed by artist Julie Hayward in 2009 and named after Angelo Soliman, who lived nearby .

building

  • No. 2B (Obere Weißgerberstraße 14) was built in 1859 by Anton Baumgarten with Eduard Kuschée as master builder. The representative central projection with triangular gable and pilasters is best preserved in its original state. The facade has been simplified in the originally rusticated base floor, the decor of the right half of the facade and that to the Obere Weißgerberstrasse has been completely removed.
  • No. 8-10 (Radetzkyplatz 3, Radetzkystraße 15-17) was built in 1875 by Peter Gerl and is part of the Radetzkyplatz ensemble. The building has a round bay window with caryatids facing the square. The two subsequent axes and the central axis towards Radetzkystraße.
  • No. 12B (Kolonitzplatz 1) is the vicarage of the Othmarkirche and a primary school in the same building. The building was built in 1870–1872 and adapted in 1894/95. The four-storey exposed brick building with an H-shaped floor plan shows Gothic decor in the middle parts.
  • At Kolonitzplatz, but touched by Löwengasse, is the parish church of St. Othmar under the white tanners . Construction began in 1866 and consecrated in 1873, the architect was Friedrich von Schmidt , and Josef Hlávka was in charge of construction. It is a neo-Gothic brick building with a mighty hexagonal entrance tower. The nave has stepped buttresses and two-lane tracery windows, behind the transept and the windowed end of the choir, the room is arranged polygonally like a choir end. Inside it is a basilically arranged three-aisled and five-bay room. the furnishings with neo-Gothic shapes come mainly from the construction period. The church is a listed building.
  • No. 22 (Hetzgasse 35) with the tower-like corner solution dates from 1871 by Josef Hlávka.
  • No. 28 (Kegelgasse 31), like the neighboring house, Kegelgasse 29, also comes from Hlávka and was the foundation of the Josef, Marie and Zdenka Hlávka Foundation .
  • No. 30 (Kegelgasse 32) was built in 1908 by Leopold Fuchs . It has a corner tower with a colossal half-column structure, the vestibule is oval with half-columns and, like the hallway, richly decorated with vegetable stucco ornamentation.
  • No. 33 is the former Löwen-Kino , which was built in 1922 by Alfred Mautner and Johann Rothmüller . It has a façade with notch cut decoration, in the central axis there are the reliefs of two masks and a lion. It is a listed building.
  • Numbers 34 & 36 (Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz 7 and 1, respectively) are the final buildings of the courtyard-like Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz, which at the same time fit into the street structure of Löwengasse. They are decorated with lions on the roof and were built in 1906 by the brothers Anton and Josef Drexler (No. 34) and in 1908 by Leopold Fuchs .
  • No. 37A (Blumengasse 9) was built in 1912 by Franz Gebhart. The post-historic facade has bay windows, curved gables and a representative corner dome. It is decorated with motifs based on the Wiener Werkstätte.
  • No. 41–43 (Kegelgasse 34–38) is the Hundertwasserhaus . It was built in 1983–1985 under the direction of Friedensreich Hundertwasser , the architectural planning comes from Josef Krawina with later modifications by Peter Pelikan . It is designed as a model building that should implement Hundertwasser's ideas of human-friendly housing, which are not least defined in the rejection of the leveling grid architecture of the post-war period. In line with Hundertwasser's manifesto. Against straight lines , wavy surfaces are preferred, the right to windows is expressed through different designs of the windows. The house (which is run by the municipality of Vienna, the owner of the building, as an eco- house) is greened and planted with trees, which is intended to exemplify the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.
  • No. 45 (Paracelsusgasse 10) was built in 1908 by Siegfried Kramer . The monumental Baroque facade with picturesque silhouetted mansard roofs corresponds to the opposite houses (No. 34 & 36) and No. 47 (the Palais des Beaux Arts, see below). There are windows with flower garlands in the stairwell.
  • No. 47–47a is the Palais des Beaux Arts . It was built in 1908/09 by the Drexler brothers, is considered to be one of their main works and is also one of the most important works of post-historicism , in which late historical subdivisions are combined with secessionist decorative forms. Originally planned as a fashion center called Chic Parisien , it is inspired by Parisian architecture, but combines different style elements in an idiosyncratic and original way. It is a mighty corner house with a towering tower and gabled oriels. There are representative stone balconies in the mezzanine and on the third floor. The articulated corner tower is the most striking element, it is crowned by a triple stepped polygonal bell roof and flanked on the side of the attic by female figures holding globes. The vestibule with marble cladding and stucco decoration is also representative, pillars with vases lead to a staircase leading to the actual stairwell, which is decorated with bronze reliefs by groups of women on the sides. The Lithuanian Embassy is located in this building . It is a listed building.
  • Nos. 49 & 51 were built by Franz Wafler in 1910. The houses are provided with mighty central bay buildings and baroque facades.
  • No. 53 is the house where Anton von Webern was born, a memorial plaque reminds of this.

  • No. 2B

  • No. 22

  • View out of town, from the right houses 28 & 30

  • Former Lion cinema

  • No. 37A

  • Hundertwasser House

  • No. 45

  • Palais des Baux Arts

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map of the suburb of Weißgerber around 1830 by Carl Graf Vasquez
  2. ↑ https://www.wien.gv.at/kulturportal/public/identifyKunstwerk.aspx?id=ARCH.KDENK_P.108433&mid=c8adb770-a9e5-4485-a20d-208cd455b143&ftype=vienna:ARCH.KDENK_P&g .f74-52ebbb29 -b9d1-c1a4d297127b & cid = 2d8d3b12-d6d4-4df2-a83f-6ba4b26b1014
  3. ↑ a b c Géza Hajós , Eckart Vansca: Austrian art topography. Volume XLIV. The art monuments of Vienna. The secular buildings of the III., IV. And V district. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0470-8 , pp. 84–87
  4. ↑ Géza Hajós, Eckart Vansca: Austrian Art topography. Volume XLIV. The art monuments of Vienna. The secular buildings of the III., IV. And V district. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0470-8 , p. 63
  5. ↑ a b Entry about Josef Hlávka. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  6. ^ Dehio II-IX & XX, Vienna 1993, Anton Schroll & Co., pp. 72/73
  7. ↑ a b c List of monuments for Vienna  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bda.gv.at  
  8. ↑ Géza Hajós, Eckart Vansca: Austrian Art topography. Volume XLIV. The art monuments of Vienna. The secular buildings of the III., IV. And V district. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0470-8 , p. 46
  9. ↑ Description page of the building at Wiener Wohnen

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 29.6 "  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 35.2"  E