Lerchenfeld (Vienna)

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Altlerchenfeld coat of arms
Neulerchenfeld coat of arms

The Lerchenfeld is a former forest area in the area of ​​today's Viennese districts Neubau , Josefstadt and Ottakring .

The name was first mentioned in a document in 1295. In 1337 the ducal court bought most of the area for hunting. The name can either be traced back to the existence of a larch forest or to the fact that the imperial court was busy catching larks there (both theses were combined in the later local coat of arms of Lerchenfeld, it showed a tree and three birds). However, an older Slavic or Celtic field or place name is even more likely.

After the area had long been arable land, settlement began in the 17th century, starting from the part closer to the center. Around 1700, Neulerchenfeld had already emerged next to Altlerchenfeld further out of town , which remained outside this fortification when the line wall was built in 1704 . 1703–1705, the lordship over Lerchenfeld was acquired by the City of Vienna .

As a hiking guide from the Biedermeier period , Adolf Schmidl 's work " Vienna's Environs for Twenty Hours in Circumferences " from 1835, shows, Lerchenfeld had a very dubious reputation at the time:

Who hasn't heard of the Lerchenfelde? The Lerchenfeld is to Vienna what St. Antoine is to Paris, Sachsenhausen to Frankfurt, etc., the romping ground of the rabble - but, like a touch of poetry, even in its deepest meanness (or rather "coarseness") is still characteristic of the Austrian the notorious Lark Field is not without poetic moments. It is evidently the living contrast of the Prater [...] But in Lerchenfelde all consideration is lost, all institutions are private in the strictest sense, the plebs are sovereign here, and the heralds of his rule are right in front of the line: a boarding shack for gymnastic and animalistic Arts, a few open carousels, and a troop of miserable drawing wagons to get through the impenetrable dust or unfathomable feces to the goal of all wishes - the Heuriger - as soon as possible !

Since the area is now in densely built-up Vienna, the names of the districts and streets refer to the former Lerchenfeld: the districts Altlerchenfeld and Neulerchenfeld as well as Lerchengasse , Lerchenfelder Straße , Neulerchenfelder Straße and the Lerchenfelder Gürtel .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 42
  2. ↑ Lerchenfeld at www.wien.gv.at
  3. ^ Adolf Schmidl: Vienna's surroundings for twenty hours in a circle. Described by Adolf Schmidl after his own hikes. Printed and published by Carl Gerold, Vienna 1835, p. 120.
  4. ^ Peter Autengruber : Lexicon of Viennese street names . Pichler Verlag, 6th edition, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85431-439-4 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 18 ″  E