Nibelungenviertel
The Nibelungenviertel is a district part of the 15th Viennese municipal district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus . The approximately 26 hectare area is bordered by Gablenzgasse to the north, Vogelweidplatz to the east, Hütteldorfer Straße to the south and Stutterheimstraße to the west. The center is formed by the poplar-lined Kriemhildplatz and the avenue of Markgraf-Rüdiger-Strasse.
history
In the 19th century, the “parade and parade place Schmelz” was located on Wiener Schmelz . In 1911 the southern and eastern parts were released for development. From 1912 a new residential area was built here, the streets of which were mostly named after characters from the Nibelungenlied . For this reason, the (unofficial) name "Nibelungenviertel" has become natural for this part of the district. Four to five-storey upper-class apartment buildings were built, the style of which reflects the late phase of the Vienna Secession .
The outbreak of the First World War interrupted construction. After the end of the war, the vacant lots were closed by further residential buildings as well as by cooperative and community buildings by 1926 . In the east of the Nibelungenviertel, according to the original planning of 1910/1912, an Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Stadtmuseum was to be built according to plans by Otto Wagner . This project was not realized; instead, the Wiener Stadthalle and the Stadthallenbad were built in this area from 1953 .
Streets and squares
The neighborhood includes the following streets and squares:
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Culture and sights
The Christ the King's Church on Kriemhildplatz was built in 1933/34 according to plans by Clemens Holzmeister as a memorial church for Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel . Another notable church buildings in Nibelungenviertel is built also in the 1930s Zwinglikirche the architects Siegfried Theiss and Hans Jaksch .
The Art Nouveau architect Max Hegele is one of the most important architects who planned residential buildings in the first construction phase of the Nibelungenviertel before the First World War .
Several municipal buildings from the interwar period are now listed . Gottlieb Michal designed the Forstner-Hof ( list entry ), in whose courtyard there is a stone fountain by Anton Endstorfer , and the neighboring residential complex Alliogasse 24–26 ( list entry ). The Ebert-Hof ( list entry ) with its monumental portal is the work of architects Viktor Mittag and Karl Hauschka . A bronze relief attached to the courtyard facade commemorates the namesake Friedrich Ebert . These three municipal buildings were built like the Johann-Witzmann-Hof ( list entry ) by the architect Rudolf Krauss in the 1920s, while the Grassinger-Hof ( list entry ) by the architects Josef Berger and Martin Ziegler was not built until the 1930s. There a plaque with a relief head commemorates the district chairman Johann Grassinger, who died in 1932.
See also
literature
- Federal Monuments Office: Dehio-Handbuch Wien, X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 362ff.
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , Vol. 4, p. 397.
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '8.4 " N , 16 ° 19' 44.4" E
Rudolfsheim ( Braunhirschen , Reindorf , Rustendorf ) | Fünfhaus ( Schmelz , Nibelungenviertel , Neu-Fünfhaus ) | Six house