Meiselstrasse
The Meiselstraße is about 1350 meters long street in the 14th and 15th district of Vienna ( Penzing and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus ). It was named in 1892 after the Rudolfsheimer office director Johann Meisel (1821–1890), before that it was called Obere Märzstrasse.
General
The road was laid out in the course of the grid parceling after the incorporation of Penzing and Rudolfsheim to Vienna in 1890/2. By 1914, Meiselstrasse was largely built with apartment buildings in the style of late historicism and the Vienna Secession . The vacant lots in the district around Cervantesgasse were only closed in the 1920s with municipal housing. In the 1950s and 1990s, major construction projects were carried out around the Meiselmarkt that included apartments, offices, a parking garage and a shopping center. In the course of the construction of the Johnstrasse subway station in 1994, the lower Meiselstrasse was redesigned to be pedestrian-friendly between Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz and Johnstrasse, creating one of the largest suburban pedestrian zones in Vienna. As part of this project, the so-called Vienna Water World, a water art installation consisting of seven different fountains, was established. The Meiselstrasse pedestrian zone, including Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz, is also popular with mostly young parkour runners , who appreciate its spaciousness and ease of use by larger groups of traceurs . From Johnstrasse, which leads down the slope to the nearby Schönbrunn Palace , Meiselstrasse is primarily a residential area.
Architectural monuments
The most famous buildings on Meiselstrasse are the Rudolfsheimer parish church, built in 1893–1899 in the high Gothic style according to plans by the architect Karl Schaden , and the old valve chamber of the former drinking water reservoir on the Schmelz (built in 1873 as part of the first Viennese spring water pipeline ), whose groin vaults The pillar hall has housed the Viktualienmarkt Meiselmarkt , which was relocated here, since the mid-1990s . The vicarage (Meiselstrasse 1), which was built at the same time as the church and is reminiscent of a city palace in the Trecento , and the apartment block opposite (No. 2, 4, 6), are a remarkable ensemble of late historicism . In the further course of Meiselstrasse there are several remarkable corner houses in the style of the Vienna Secession , for example at the addresses Kröllgasse 33 (Frühwirth-Hof, 1913/4 based on designs by Adolf Slaby), Meiselstrasse 33 (1908, Johann Frühwirth), Meiselstrasse 54 ( 1914, Johann Wolf) and Hickelstraße 21 + 23 (1914 by Josef Barak & Edmund Czada), partly on an inner-city level. Also worth seeing are the two people's residential buildings at No. 73 (Theodor Schöll) and No. 76 (Josef Beer), which closed gaps in building construction in the Wilhelminian period in 1928 and despite their objectivity have dominant facade motifs. The conclusion is the Vienna Breitensee S-Bahn station (1983–1987, architects Alois Machatschek and Wilfried Schermann), a post-modern variation on Otto Wagner's light rail stations .
The listed buildings in the immediate vicinity of Meiselstraße also include the Kalasantin Church of St. Josef (1897/8) in Reinlgasse 25 and the former Grünwald metal goods factory in Flachgasse 35–37 (1907, Felix Sauer), which is now the artistic training facility “Drawing Factory “Houses. Also known is the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital on Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz, which was built from 1889 and converted into a nursing home. The actually listed administration building on the square (1890, architect Eugen Sehnal) was demolished in 2013 and had to give way to a new building.
Most of the western section of Meiselstrasse between Reinlgasse and Drechslergasse (suburb line) including the south side of Hütteldorfer Strasse and the lanes in between belong to the Penzing protection zone because of its almost closed, late founding construction (approx. 1900-1914) . Protection zones are decided by the City of Vienna independently of the monument protection of individual objects in order to protect characteristic ensembles from being demolished or deformed.
The vicarage on Meiselstrasse No. 2
Municipal housing Meiselstrasse 73 (1928)
The slide chamber of the Schmelz water container, in which the Meiselmarkt is located today
Hans Muhr's tree of life on Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz in front of the Rudolfsheimer parish church
The administration building of the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital, which was demolished in 2013
Neighbors
In the immediate vicinity of Meiselstrasse, in the eight counting streets between Holochergasse, Hütteldorfer Strasse, Drechslergasse and Märzstrasse, 9,375 inhabitants were counted in 2001. The population density of the area therefore corresponds to that of the most densely populated district of Vienna, Margareten , but is typical of a working-class residential area from the Wilhelminian era . Meiselstraße crosses the two counting districts Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz (15th district) and An der Windmühle (14th district), which had a total of 20,375 inhabitants in 2001 and 22,360 in 2011. The proportion of residents with a migration background in 2011 was 50.1%, well above the Vienna average of 33.6%, while the proportions of senior citizens, apartment owners and large apartments in the two counting districts for Vienna showed below average values.
Culture
In the vicinity of Meiselstraße there are a number of cultural event centers, including the Alte Schieberkammer (1873, redesigned in 1995 and since then preferably used for very limited exhibitions), the Pankahyttn (Johnstraße 45, a residential project and subcultural event center), the Blue Tomato jazz club ( Wurmsergasse 21) and the country and western event venue Vienna Globetrampers Headquarter (Meiselstrasse, corner of Beckmanngasse 72). The pedestrian zone (see Vienna Water World ) is also used for events, for example during the annual Grätzl Festival in summer. On the mezzanine floor of the Johnstraße U3 station, the black and white series of images “transmission” by the graphic artist Michael Schneider has been presented since 2010 , which corresponds to the conception of the U3 as the “art line of the subway network”. The public library of the City of Vienna "Am Meiselmarkt" (entrance Hütteldorfer Straße 81A) focuses on "Eastern European literature". A well-stocked book flea market takes place almost every Saturday morning in the rectory of the Rudolfsheim parish. The Kulturcafe Tschocherl (Wurmsergasse 42), known for dialect poetry slams, and the Kulturhaus Sargfabrik (Goldschlagstraße 169), which is known beyond the district boundaries, are also located in the catchment area of Meiselstraße.
gallery
The beginning of the street at Holochergasse
At the Nobilegasse
At Beckmanngasse
At Gurkgasse
The end of the street at Breitensee station (left)
literature
- Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century III, Vienna [II]: 13. – 18. District. Vienna 1995.
- Dehio Vienna: X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District. Vienna 1996.
Individual evidence
- ^ Parcour-Vienna. ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Vienna cultural property: Vienna protection zones.
- ↑ MA50: The 250 census tracts in Vienna. A quantitative housing supply profile. ( Memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Vienna, 2011.
- ^ Statistics Austria: Census main results Vienna. Vienna, 2003.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 52.7 " N , 16 ° 18 ′ 52.8" E