Moonlight house

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The Mondscheinhaus was a property in what is now Technikerstraße in Vienna's 4th district of Wieden , where a well-known ballroom was located in the 18th century.

history

View of the courtyard of the moonlight house in the 19th century, behind the Karlskirche

At the beginning of the 15th century, the master builder and councilor Konrad Ramperstorffer bought a brick workshop from Margarethe Mondschein near the Karlskirche . The bricks were needed for the construction of St. Stephen's Cathedral . In the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna , the area was completely devastated, but the name Zum Mondschein was retained for the newly constructed building.

Since 1773 the Mondscheinsaal , run by the Lyon host Jean Beaucousin, has been located here , in which the Viennese preferred to dance the Langaus , which was popular at the time . Friedrich Nicolai wrote in his "Description of a journey through Germany and Switzerland" in 1781:

The most handsome public dance house is the one in the moonlight on the Wieden. The same is a very beautiful two-storey hall, illuminated with various glass crowns. Here you can see many merchants, wealthy young citizens and civil servants of the lower classes with their wives and daughters on Sundays. The dance consists of a continuous waltz in the round, often by twenty people in a row ... and since the female sex in Vienna has grown and is beautiful in face, such a dance is really a pleasant spectacle for the audience.

From 1821, the widow of the Imperial and Royal Court Secretary and Legation Councilor Johann Franz von Schwind lived in the rear part of the property with her son, the painter Moritz von Schwind . Right next door, in the so-called Fruhwirth House, lived from 1825 to 1826, the composer Franz Schubert, who was a friend of Schwind . From 1826 to 1841 the piano maker Conrad Graf and then Carl Stein maintained workshop and sales rooms in the Mondscheinhaus. Graf lived in a house until 1845, which he had built in the garden of the moonlight house in 1835.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Langaus. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 54 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 26 ″  E