Tobogganing streets in Vienna
Tobogganing streets in Vienna are streets in Vienna that are closed to traffic when there is enough snow to allow children to go sledding .
history
In November 1950, the Vienna Federal Police Directorate, in agreement with the City of Vienna's Magistrate , declared some streets in the municipal area to be toboggan roads and released them for tobogganing purposes. Paragraphs 4 and 77 of St. Pol formed the legal basis. O.
The certain streets will be closed to through traffic if there is a corresponding snow cover of at least 10 centimeters of snow, with the exception of the driveway . The use of the track as a toboggan run is only permitted after the barrier has been marked and the necessary safety measures have been taken.
The city's first toboggan runs:
| district | Street | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mariahilf | Kopernikusgasse | Kopernikusgasse (house number 1) | Cornelius gases |
| Mariahilf | Corneliusgasse | Staircase at Gumpendorfer Strasse | Magdalenenstrasse |
| Meidling | Schwenkgasse | Hohenbergstrasse | Tivoligasse |
| Ottakring | Gallitzinstrasse | Vogeltenngasse | Gallitzinstrasse (house number 72) |
| Ottakring | Liebhartstalstrasse | Elisabethavenue | Liebhartstalstraße (house number 36) |
| Currency ring | Colloredogasse | Gustav-Czermak-Gasse | Cottagegasse |
| Currency ring | Gregor-Mendel-Strasse | Height of Sternwartestrasse | End of dead end |
In a directory published in March 1959 by the Sports Department of the City of Vienna, 1,306 sports training facilities are named. These include 19 toboggan runs.
Barriers were installed at Spittelbreitengasse and Pohlgasse to make it easier and more effective to cordon off the part of Schwenkgasse, which was used as a toboggan road.
At the end of 2011, there were reports that the oldest existing toboggan street in Vienna, the one in Schwenkgasse, and the toboggan street on Ulrichsplatz in the new building should be closed. The reason for the imminent closure was a legal opinion, according to which it is not the municipal department 48 - vehicle fleet and city cleaning as the operator of the toboggan roads, but the employee who instructs the roadblock to be personally liable in the event of a toboggan accident.
The Marillenalm was proposed as a replacement for the toboggan run in Schwenkgasse, but it did not pass a safety inspection by the TÜV .
At the 17th meeting of the Vienna City Council on December 16, 2011, an application to keep the Schwenkgasse as a toboggan street was made and accepted.
After the question of liability had been clarified by the Municipal Department MA 65 - Legal Transport Matters and promised additional security measures, the continued existence of the two Viennese toboggan roads was declared secure.
Web links
- Toboggan road in the dead end
- Tobogganing ban in the Schwenkgasse
- Safety risk: No tobogganing routes for Vienna this year
- Toboggan road should be allowed
- But no end for toboggan runs
- Ordinance of the City of Vienna's Magistrate regarding the establishment of exceptions to the ban on tobogganing on certain streets in the local area of Vienna (PDF file; 21 kB)
literature
- Wiener Zeitung of November 10, 1950, page 4: For the first time tobogganing streets in Vienna
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/historisch/1959/maerz.html
- ↑ http://kurier.at/nachrichten/wien/4478288-rodelstrasse-soll-doch-erlaubt-haben.php
- ↑ http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2512691
- ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2011/12/16025.html (section: Extension of funding for the establishment of bicycle stands on public property)
- ↑ http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2513976