Lugeck

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The Regensburger Hof am Lugeck
View of the Lugeck with the Regensburger Hof from the direction of Hoher Markt (Salomon Kleiner, 1723)
Gutenberg monument

The Lugeck is a small square in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . It is accessed, clockwise, from Rotenturmstrasse , Köllnerhofgasse, Sonnenfelsgasse and Bäckerstrasse . The line of sight to the Hohen Markt is given by the Lichtensteg.

history

The Lugeck is a section of the old Wipplingerstraße - Hoher Markt - Landstraße located just north of the former Via principalis dextra of the Roman camp Vindobona and was mentioned in 1257 as Luogeckhe , which indicates a lookout (a place from which you can look out, i.e. look out could hold) from a corner tower. In 1435 the square was known as Am Luegegk by the meat banks and from 1504 as Lugeck. The square was already a center of Viennese trade in the High Middle Ages. The Regensburger Hof , hostel and staging area for the Regensburg merchants, was also a place of prestigious festivals for centuries, including where Emperor Friedrich III met. the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus . Immediately next to it was the spacious Cologne court, the meeting place for the Low German traders. Wolfgang Schmeltzl reports on the lively multinational hustle and bustle on Lugeck around the middle of the 16th century in his "Praise to the City of Vienna in Austria":

I came to Lugeck by accident
Merchants went back and forth
Colorful things in strange clothes,
And spoke foreign languages
I thought I had come to Babel
Where the confusion of languages ​​began
And hear a strange gossip, shouting,
Many beautiful languages ​​too.
Hebrew, Greek and Latin,
German, French, Turkish, Spanish,
Bohemian, Windisch, Italian,
Hungarian, good Dutch,
Of course Syrian, Croatian,
Serbian, Polish and Chaldean.
There was a great multitude of the people ...

In the course of the urban redevelopment of the Wilhelminian era, the square was expanded in 1896/97, but the Regensburger Hof (Lugeck No. 4) was replaced by a much more voluminous imitation that was moved backwards. House No. 1 was also replaced by a Wilhelminian style building. This burned down at the end of the war in 1945 as a result of looting and was replaced after decades by a sober new building.

In the middle of the square there was once the legendary Marcus Curtius Hole , a circular depression of an unexplained function that, according to legend, goes back to the casting of the first Pummerin . The monument to Johannes Gutenberg by Hans Bitterlich has stood here since 1900 (on a base by Max Fabiani ). The square is also accessed from the Wollzeile through a characteristic old Viennese through-house (Lugeck No. 5 / Wollzeile No. 5 community center “Zum schmeckenden Wurm”).

House Lugeck No. 7 was built in 1846 for Georg Simon von Sina based on designs by Leopold Mayr . At this point there was a patrician farm as early as the 14th century, which was owned by Georg Federl at the end of the 16th century and was therefore subsequently referred to as the Großer Federlhof . The landmark building with an eye-catching tower stretched from the beginning of Bäckerstrasse to Rotenturmstrasse and served as a residence for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , among others, in 1713 . There was an observatory at the top of the six-story tower. In 1860, Carl von Ghega died in the house at Lugeck 7 , which is now a memorial plaque.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 35.3 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 29.2"  E