Nasal passage

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View from the Nasenweg (Ravelin) to the Kahlenbergerdorf; in the background the Danube Tower and the Danube City

The Nasenweg is a paved “viewing path ” in the north of Vienna , which leads from Kahlenbergerdorf to the 425 meter high Leopoldsberg . It has been part of Vienna's city hiking trail 1a since 2002 . The name can be traced back to the steep slope of the Leopoldberg called "nose". Because of the steepness of the nose, the only natural rock outcrops of Vienna ( flysch ) are located along the nasal passage .

history

Around 1800, Field Marshal Charles Joseph de Ligne (1735–1814), who had lived in the castle on Leopoldsberg since 1794, had the centuries-old hunting trail expanded into a path. Prince Johann Joseph von Liechtenstein , who took over the buildings on Leopolds- and Kahlenberg after de Ligne's death, had the path renovated around 1825. In 1877 the route from the Austrian Tourist Club (ÖTK) was expanded into a “promenade route”. In 1895 the path was renovated and the ÖTK Klosterneuburg took care of the path. During the second renovation in 1926, a new route was partially chosen and in 1930 the City of Vienna took over the road maintenance. In the course of the construction of the Viennese Höhenstraße , the Nasenweg was partially re-routed and redesigned in 1936, and several viewpoints were built, including a large, protruding lookout pulpit in the style of a ravelin . In 1971, due to the expansion of the Heiligenstädter Straße, the valley-side route began in the city towards the Waldbach.

Building

The "Panoramaweg" is around 1.5 km in length, with an altitude difference of around 250 meters. The path is paved throughout, has twelve hairpin bends, nine staircases with 310 steps and five " viewing platforms " as well as a viewing platform. Most of the Nasenweg is provided with a concreted trickle on the mountain side and secured with an iron railing on the valley side.

photos

  • Lookout pulpit, just above the center

  • The "Leopold-Ruh '" with a memorial plaque at the second bend

  • Alignment of the nasal path around 1872 (excerpt from the recording sheet of the land survey 1872 )

Web links

Commons : nasal passages  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry via the nose path on the Vienna-Trips website

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wien.gv.at: Stadtwanderweg 1a - Leopoldsberg
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weisgram, Vera Sebauer, Othmar Pruckner: The Vienna Woods and the Thermenregion ; Falter Verlag Vienna 1996
  3. ↑ a b c Folder "Via the Nasenweg to the Leopoldsberg" from the City of Vienna
  4. ↑ Georg Rigele: The Viennese Höhenstraße: Cars, Landscape and Politics in the Thirties . Turia & Kant, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85132-052-2

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 37.6 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 4.5 ″  E