Lassallestrasse (Vienna)
The Lassallestraße in Vienna in the 2nd district, one of the Praterstern outgoing roads, namely the connection of this transportation hub for Reichsbrücke on the Danube .
history
The street, laid out by Felix Czeike in the third quarter of the 18th century, was originally called swimming school avenue from around 1813 (after the kk military and civil swimming school on the unregulated Danube). After the Danube was regulated until 1875 and the Reichsbrücke (then: Kronprinz-Rudolf-Brücke ) was built, it was called Kronprinz-Rudolf-Straße from 1876–1919 , Lassallestraße 1919–1934 , Reichsbrückenstraße 1934–1949 and since 1949 Lassallestraße again .
The current street name was dedicated in 1919 by the Red Vienna to the German writer and politician Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864). As one of the spokesmen for the early German labor movement , he is considered one of the founding fathers of the SPD that emerged from the SDAP . The large community building erected in 1924 with the address Lassallestraße 40, corner of Vorgartenstraße, was named Lassalle-Hof in 1925 . The name was chosen at a time when the Viennese Social Democrats still regarded the merger of Austria with Germany as desirable.
Seen from the Praterstern , the north station area stretched on the left side of the street , which was and is being built up in parallel to the relocation of the freight station since the 1990s. In the district now known as the Nordbahnviertel , representative office buildings dominate along Lassallestrasse. The park called Venediger Au and the Stuwerviertel, which was laid out before the First World War, border on the right-hand side of the street .
Lassallestrasse ends after five cross lanes at the Reichsbrücke at Mexikoplatz in the course of Engerthstrasse, where the bridge ramp is already in an elevated position. The Vorgartenstraße underground station is one block in front of it .
Public transport
For decades the street had heavy tram traffic with lines to the 22nd district and to the summer baths on the Old Danube . The underground line U1 has been running under the street since 1982 .
The tram traffic until 1981 largely corresponded to that in the Praterstrasse . (Lines A and Ak had the exhibition street as their destination, B and Bk the Reichsbrücke / Lassallestraße).
Web links
- Lassallestrasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 3: Ha-La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 688.