Prager Strasse (Vienna)
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| Prager Strasse near Hopfengasse 1977 | |
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| place | Vienna-Floridsdorf |
| District | Floridsdorf , Großjedlersdorf , Jedlesee , Strebersdorf |
| Created | 1728-1736 |
| Hist. Names | Prague Reichsstrasse |
| Cross streets | (Selection :) Hermann-Bahr-Straße, access to the Nordbrücke, Koloniestraße, Anton-Störck-Gasse, Hopfengasse, Anton-Bosch-Gasse, Rudolf-Virchow-Straße, Autokaderstraße, Einzingergasse, Scheydgasse, Rußbergstraße, Mayerweckstraße |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , tram line 26 |
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| Street length | approx. 4,680 m |
The Prager Straße in Vienna is in the 21st district, Floridsdorf , located historic main street. The former state road to Prague was laid out in 1728–1736 as the Prager Reichsstrasse and in 1875 was given the shorter name Prager Strasse. The area through which it runs was incorporated into Vienna in 1905.
Seen from the city center, it starts at the Am Spitz intersection, which adjoins Floridsdorfer Hauptstrasse, in a north-north-westerly direction, roughly parallel to the Danube, which flows some distance away . The other main street that starts here is Brünner Straße in a north-northeast direction.
Prager Straße leads through loosely built-up urban area almost dead straight between the districts Strebersdorf (west and east of the street) and Großjedlersdorf (east of the street) towards Prague . Immediately before the northern city limits, it leads past the foothills of the eastern part of Strebersdorf. Shortly before, it crosses the Nordwestbahn and Marchfeld Canal on bridges .
The street is used from its southern end almost to Strebersdorf by tram line 26 , which then turns east to the center of Strebersdorf into Rußbergstraße. Lines 32 and 132 ran here from January 19, 1912 to May 3, 1996.
The regional connection between the road and the road network in eastern and northern Austria can be found in the Lemma Donau Straße . The importance of Prager Straße in long-distance traffic has decreased considerably due to the construction of the Danube bank motorway built here in the 1980s .
Addresses
- In no. 9 of a former cinema is located in the premises of the Gloria Theater .
- At house number 18A there is a memorial for the executed February fighter Georg Weissel (1899 to 1934), which was unveiled in 1964 .
- Georg I. Heinrich Mautner von Markhof (1840–1904) from the brewing family moved from Simmering to the new premises at no. 20 in 1864 , where artificial or compressed yeast and alcohol were now also produced. 1872 (at that time his father was Adolf Ignaz Mautner von Markhof the peerage) extended it there with his brother Otto Waechter factory and founded on the property Gerichtsgasse a malt factory as "Waechter & Mautner" soon be the largest in Austria-Hungary and 1890 was bought by Georgs older brother Karl Ferdinand Mautner von Markhof (1834-1896). After moving, Georg had his villa built at Prager Straße 20. The company was expanded to become the St. Georgs Brewery and in 1900 had 31 civil servants and 300 workers. The so-called Mautner Villa is now used as a fire brigade and youth center.
- There was a cooperage at No. 31 . In 1900/1901 Georg I Heinrich Mautner von Markhof had the building complex later called Mautner-Schlössl built here for his son Georg II Anton .
- The future mayor of Vienna and Federal President Franz Jonas was born in house number 74 on October 4th, 1899 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Bezemek , Friedrich Ecker and Jiří Kacetl: The Prager Strasse. A history of the traffic route from Vienna to Prague in pictures , Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503378-5-3
- ^ Alfred Paleczny: Mautner Markhof - The beginning of a Viennese family and company history , in: Susanne Claudine Pils (Ed.): Studies on Viennese history. Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Volume 74, Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Vienna 2018, p. 111 ff., Here: The company foundations in Floridsdorf, p. 138–144
- ^ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, p. 589, keyword Prager Straße