Pratercottage

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Late historic houses on Schüttelstrasse
Former Cycling club of court and state officials, Rustenschacherallee 7, designed in 1898 by Joseph M. Olbrich ; von Doderer (see main text) as Bicycle Club mentioned
Böcklinstraße 57, example of a villa built around 1900 with elements of the local style
Excerpt from an official city map around 1930

Pratercottage in Vienna is the name given to a once upper-class residential area in Leopoldstadt , Vienna's 2nd district. In the former wetland area between the main avenue of the Prater and the Danube Canal , representative villas of wealthy citizens and sports clubs were built from the second half of the 19th century.

The term is commonly used today in the real estate industry. The cottage used to be in Vienna and is still occasionally pronounced as feminine and French: the Kottehsch ; In 2001 this variant was described as obsolete in the Austrian dictionary .

Limitation

The area was and is also known under the historical name Am Schüttel , after which the Schüttelstraße accompanying the Danube Canal on the left bank is named.

The area has no official limit. The Böcklinstrasse parallel to the Danube Canal (since 1919, until then after Archduchess Marie Valerie Valeriestrasse) with its side streets as well as Rustenschacherallee (since 1921, previously Prinzenallee, originally until the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary in 1889, Kronprinzstrasse) can become the Pratercottage are counted.

The built-up area is bounded by the Danube Canal and Prater (especially Jesuitenwiese), to the northwest the viaduct of the connecting railway forms a barrier to the more densely built-up area of ​​the 2nd district.

Traffic routes and structures

There are two connections over the Danube Canal from the 3rd district, Landstrasse : the historic Rotunda Bridge and the Erdberger Steg, which was built in 2003 . (In 2002 the last ferry to the Pratercottage ceased operations there.) The extension of the Rotunda Bridge is Wittelsbachstraße, - a street only two blocks long, formerly a shopping street, on which tram line 1 goes to its terminus in Rotundenallee at Hauptallee.

On Wittelsbachstrasse, on the corner of Böcklinstrasse, there is the Federal Institute for Education for the Blind and, opposite, on no. 6, a school building (elementary school and sports center); the two originally late historical buildings were rebuilt in a simplified form in the post-war period.

Another school building erected around 1910 (formerly the Bundeskonvikt für Knaben, today Danube International School Vienna ) is located at Josef-Gall-Gasse 2. The composer Karl Goldmark died on January 2, 1915 in house number 5 on this street, at the corner of Böcklinstrasse (see memorial plaque). At the same time, the student Elias Canetti lived in the house with his mother and two brothers.

In the last years of his life until 1975, Fritz Wotruba's studio was at Rustenschacherallee 2-4 . Hildegard Auersperg lived at Rustenschacherallee 30 from 1929 to 1938 with her French husband Auguste-Olympe Hériot with an eccentric lifestyle and huge fortune in a spacious garden; she was later married to Louis Nathaniel von Rothschild .

At Böcklinstrasse 1 there are listed sculpture studios of the Academy of Fine Arts , built in 1913 based on a design by Friedrich Ohmann .

There are two sacred buildings on Böcklinstrasse: at No. 31 (second address: Rustenschacherallee 14) the parish church Am Schüttel, built between 1960 and 1962, and at No. 55, the oldest Mormon church in Vienna, built in 1960/1961.

The beginning of Böcklinstraße is dominated on the straight side by the opulent late-historical buildings by Friedrich Krombholz and Josef Schalberger († 1909) at numbers 4 and 6 (1906), 8 (1903) and 12 (1904), with no its half-timbered corner solution looks a bit more modern, although the house was built before the other buildings. This ensemble also includes the houses at Laufbergergasse 4 (1906) and Kurzbauergasse 5 (1904), both by Krombholz & Schalberger.

In 1990 Friedrich Achleitner also mentioned the houses at Böcklinstrasse 82 (1912) and 110 (1911/1912) as well as the villas at No. 27 (1928) and 53 (1912) and, designed by Oskar Marmorek , at No. 59 (1904 ) in his architectural guide in 1990 ) and 61 (1908). At house number 52 there is a memorial plaque for the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović , who studied in Vienna from 1907 to 1909.

At the address Laufbergergasse 12 there used to be a small castle owned by Count Felix Harnoncourt (1857–1934), a hunting friend of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand ; Today the Magdas Hotel, operated by Caritas since 2015, is located here .

Municipal housing

In parts of the quarter, the late historical apartment buildings and villas are mixed with community and cooperative buildings from the post-war period. The municipal buildings include the Robert-Erber-Hof on the Danube Canal (Schüttelstrasse 19 and Böcklinstrasse 14–22, 250 apartments, designed by Oskar Payer and Karl Hauschka, built 1950–1952, sgraffito murals by Ernst Paar and Maximilian Florian ) and the residential complex Rustenschacherallee 44 –56 (designed by Johann Stöhr and Wilhelm Kaiser, built 1954–1956, a listed outdoor sculpture by Christa Vogelmayer , reliefs by Hermann Walenta ). On the edge of the area (on the Danube Canal, Schüttelstrasse 5, 7 and 9) is the Franz-Mair -Hof, built by Franz Schacherl between 1931 and 1932 , a listed community building with 278 apartments. Here is a stele designed by Hans Robert Pippal .

The Pratercottage in fiction

Heimito von Doderer referred to the Pratercottage in his 1963 novel The Slunj Waterfalls . The son of a manufacturer, Robert Clayton, is to run a new branch of the English machine factory Clayton & Powers planned in Vienna in 1877. One settles in the Pratercottage: The Claytons villa was on the so-called »Prinzenallee«. Diagonally across the street there was the "Bicycle Club". (Doderer, p. 41) In the novel, the factory was on the other side of the Danube Canal.

See also

Web links

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

literature

  • Gitta German : Böcklinstrasse elegy. Memories . Picus Verlag, Vienna 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Tageszeitung Neue Freie Presse , May 26, 1929, p. 38, column 5
  2. ^ Austrian dictionary , 39th edition, öbv & hpt, Jugend und Volk, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-209-03076-6 , p. 131
  3. ↑ Report on the website of the Vienna daily newspaper Der Standard from July 22, 2002
  4. ↑ http://www.bbi.at
  5. ↑ http://www.danubeschool.com/
  6. ^ Roman Sandgruber: Rothschild. Splendor and Fall of the Vienna World House, Molden-Verlag, Vienna 2018, p. 491
  7. ↑ Sculpture studios ... are renovated , broadcast 2011
  8. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in four volumes , Volume III / 1, Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7017-0635-2 , p. 95
  9. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in four volumes , Volume III / 1, Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7017-0635-2 , p. 102
  10. ↑ http://www.pratercottage.at/2009/09/11/villa-harnoncourt-1891/
  11. ↑ http://www.magdas.at/hotel/
  12. ^ Robert-Erber-Hof in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  13. ^ Franz-Mair-Hof on the website of the municipal housing management
  14. ^ Parish gazette of the Roman Catholic parish Am Schüttel, edition 2/2012, p. 8
  15. ↑ Ernst Bruckmüller: Pastrée, Clayton and Co. , in the magazine Der literäre Zaunkönig , No. 3/2013, p. 12 , published by Erika-Mitterer-Gesellschaft, Vienna

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '  N , 16 ° 24'  E