Morzinplatz

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The Morzinplatz
Morzinplatz in 1876: on the left the predecessor building of the Herminenhof built in 1887, on the right the Hotel Métropole, in front of it the Franz-Josefs-Kai; the lanes branching off in the background are Salzgries (left) and Gonzagagasse (middle, left of the hotel).
Memorial in memory of the victims of the Gestapo on Morzinplatz. In the background the Ruprechtskirche

The Morzinplatz in Vienna is a place in the first district of Vienna , the Inner City .

location

The square borders in the northeast between Salztorbrücke and Marienbrücke on Franz-Josefs-Kai , the main artery between the old town and the Danube Canal . It presents itself as a square-like extension of the quay, as it is not separated from it by buildings. There is no visible demarcation from Schwedenplatz , which is also an extension of the quay to the southeast . At the southwest, old town-side boundary of the square, the road ratio falls to geologists City Terrace cited here, the elevated old town, where the staircase leads Ruprecht. In the northwest, the square borders on the textile district, which was newly built after 1860.

The Rabensteig ( Bermuda Triangle ) and Marc-Aurel-Straße flow into the square from the old town . The flowing salt gravel formed the boundary of the old town for centuries. Gonzagagasse comes from the textile district. The Kohlmessergasse, which runs parallel to the quay and opens into Morzinplatz from the south-east, no longer exists since 1954.

history

Up until the 16th century, an arm of the Danube corresponding to the course of today's salt gravel flowed into the Danube Canal here; Until 1561 there was an urban shipping berth here.

Today's square was laid out around 1860, after the city wall was removed, as part of the construction of the Franz-Josefs-Kai . The history of the city wall, its demolition and the layout of the street around the old town is shown here in detail.

The square was named in 1888 after Colonel Vinzenz Graf Morzin (1803–1882), kk chamberlain, who was the last of his family to bequeath one million guilders to the city of Vienna for the poor, orphans and handicapped children.

In the 20th century, the square gained very negative significance as the address of the Vienna Gestapo headquarters, which was housed in the former Hotel Métropole , Morzinplatz 4, from 1938–1945 . Opposite the former main entrance is a memorial in memory of the Gestapo victims.

In 1944 a system of tunnels was built in Vienna that connected part of the air raid shelters . There was a bunkered exit structure at Morzinplatz; also on Rudolfsplatz, in Volksgarten , in Burggarten and in Stadtpark .

The square was limited in the southeast until 1945 by the side of the large Herminenhof on Franz-Josefs-Kai, with a façade length of 110 m at that time the largest (group) residential building from the construction period 1887–1890 in Vienna. (Behind the building, Kohlmessergasse ran parallel to the quay between Morzinplatz and Rotenturmstrasse .) The building was so badly damaged in the course of the Battle of Vienna that rebuilding was not considered. The building site was leveled, the area included in Morzinplatz; the buildings remaining on the edge of the old town were given house numbers of the Franz-Josefs-Kai. An underground car park was later built under this former building site and the surface was landscaped.

Addresses

The eight to twelve-storey residential complex “Leopold-Figl-Hof”; erected from 1963 to 1967
  • No. 1 and 2: To the right of the Ruprechtsstiege leading to the Ruprechtskirche , one of the oldest in Vienna, are the houses Morzinplatz 1 and 2.
  • No. 3 refers to the building between Salzgries and Gonzagagasse, the narrow side of which faces the square.
  • No. 4: Leopold-Figl- Hof on the property of the Hotel Métropole , which was destroyed in 1945, Vienna headquarters of the Gestapo from 1938 to 1945 (sacrificial memorial room , Salztorgasse entrance)
  • Opposite No. 4: Memorial in memory of the victims of the Gestapo

There are no other house numbers; the block to the left of Ruprechtsstiege has the address Franz-Josefs-Kai 29.

Web links

Commons : Morzinplatz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 299
  2. ^ Austrian military magazine , Volume 1, Vienna 1833, p. 203 ( Streffleur's military magazine )
  3. ↑ www.derstandard.at: The air raid shelter network of Vienna's inner city
  4. ↑ Gateway to the World - Pictures of large buildings around 1900 in Vienna

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '46.1 "  N , 16 ° 22' 27.7"  E