Museumsavenue Hofmuseen - Schmelz

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The Museumsavenue Hofmuseen - Schmelz in Vienna was a project by the architect Friedrich Ohmann and should have connected the court museums ( Natural History and Art History Museum ) with the city ​​museum to be built on the Schmelz .

Routing

After numerous unsuccessful plans to build the municipal museum in the inner-city area, these plans had shifted to areas outside the belt .

At the time that this museum avenue was planned by Friedrich Ohmann in 1916, a building site at the corner of Moeringgasse and Hütteldorfer Strasse was the address for the museum following an architectural competition in 1912.

Friedrich Ohmann planned the museum avenue as a connection between Graben , Kohlmarkt , Michaelerplatz and Schauflergasse past the Volksgarten . From the beginning of Burggasse to Siebensterngasse, a slightly curved road breakthrough should have been built. From Siebensterngasse it would have gone over Westbahnstraße - crossing the belt at Urban Loritz-Platz - to Hütteldorfer Straße.

The City Planning Director of Vienna, Heinrich Goldemund , considered the project to be fundamentally interesting, but pointed out that the necessary road breakthroughs would not be legally and financially feasible at the moment.

Due to the collapse of the Danube Monarchy, a city museum was never built on the Schmelz , and so the plan for a museum avenue from the Hofmuseen zur Schmelz itself was ready for a museum.

literature

  • The Unbuilt Vienna, Projects for the Metropolis 1800–2000 Catalog Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1999