Lusthaus (Vienna)

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The pleasure house in summer
The pleasure house in winter
The Viennese Lusthaus on October 18, 1814, etching by Heinrich Friedrich Müller (festive decoration on the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig )

The summer house is a historic building in the 2nd Viennese district Leopoldstadt . It is located at the southeast end of the Prater Hauptallee near the Freudenau horse racing track .

history

It was first mentioned in 1560 as Casa verde , the “green pleasure house” in Vienna's Prater , the former imperial hunting area, and served as a hunting lodge . It was erected exactly where the main avenue, completed in 1538, met the water of Vienna . Since the Danube Canal was relocated in 1834 , the pleasure house no longer stands on the water.

After the Prater was opened to the public in 1766, the pleasure house was rebuilt between 1781 and 1783 according to plans by Isidore Canevale . It served several major festivities, such as the great imperial celebration on the first anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig , during which Napoleon was devastated.

In the 19th century, the pleasure house, like the entire Prater, was a popular meeting place for the nobility and bourgeoisie . During the First World War , the military bridge guard was quartered in the pleasure house, which had to protect the Danube bridge from sabotage.

In the economically bad period between the wars, there was a “reallocation” of the audience, there was bar operation with dance and music. During the Second World War , the pleasure house was almost completely destroyed by bombs in 1944 and 1945. In 1948 the decision was taken to rebuild. In the same year, the municipality of Vienna approved the amount of 350,000  schillings for the repair of the listed building . During the reconstruction, the shape of the building in the 18th century was used. The pleasure house was reopened in October 1949. Today there is a café and a restaurant in the Lusthaus .

  • Reconstruction from 1948

  • General view (October 1948)

  • Detail view with workers

  • Detail view

literature

  • Erich Zinsler: The Lusthaus in the Vienna Prater: On the history of an almost forgotten Viennese landmark. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Vienna 2000, supplement 4.
  • Franz Weller: The imperial castles and palaces in words and pictures. Hof-Buchdruckerei, Vienna (1880). ( Online )

Web links

Commons : Lusthaus (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna in retrospect - September 10, 1948, The Lusthaus in the Prater is being rebuilt.
  2. ↑ Erich Zinsler: The pleasure house in the Vienna Prater: On the history of an almost forgotten Viennese landmark. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Vienna 2000, supplement 4, p. 42.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 33 ″  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 20 ″  E