Rotenturmstrasse

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Rotenturmstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Vienna Inner City
Rotenturmstrasse
Basic data
place Vienna Inner City
District Inner city
Hist. Names At Lichtensteg, across from St. Stephanspfarrhof, Bischofsgasse, Haarmarkt
Connecting roads Donaukanal Strasse , Franz-Josefs-Kai Marienbrücke , Lilienbrunngasse, Brandstätte
Cross streets Wollzeile, Ertlgasse , Lichtensteg, meat market, Greeksgasse
Places Stephansplatz , Lugeck , Schwedenplatz
Buildings Vienna State Opera , Hotel Sacher , Maltese Church
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , car traffic , underground line U1, underground line U3, underground line U4, 1A, 2A, 3A

The Rotenturmstraße located in the center of the old city of Vienna in the 1st district . It begins at Stephansplatz , leads northeast past the Lugeck and on to the Danube Canal , where it connects to the Marienbrücke . Its name goes back to a former fortification, the Rotenturm Gate .

history

Rotenturmstrasse has been named after it since 1862. Before that, only the section between Fleischmarkt and Franz-Josefs-Kai was known as Rotenturmstrasse or Rotenturmgasse. The section from Lugeck to the meat market was called Haarmarkt from 1288 to 1848. The section between Stephansplatz and Lugeck was called “Am Lichtensteg” from 1367 to 1547. Today's uneven house numbers were also known under the designation “Gegenüber St. Stephanspfarrhof” or “Gegenüber St. Stephanspropsthof” (from 1418), “Bischofshof” (from 1483) and “Archbishop's Court” (from 1776). From 1796 to 1862 this part was called Bischofsgasse. The name was changed when bishops moved into the parish of St. Stephen, which the bishops used as their residence.

In 1685 the Greek Johannes Theodat received the imperial privilege to sell coffee and tea and built the first Viennese coffee house in his house, now Rotenturmstraße 14 .

In April 1945 several buildings were damaged by fire bombs and a large part of Rotenturmstrasse had to be rebuilt and rebuilt.

In March 2015 came from the Greens , the proposal, in which Rotenturmstraße, modeled on the Mariahilferstrasse , a traffic calming through a meeting zone to reach. On November 14, 2019, the Rotenturmstrasse encounter zone was opened.

Attractions

Events

  • On July 30th, 1910, Heinrich Gabel , a member of the Galician Reichsrat, died in Café Mändel , house number 8, which he visited on his way home due to a shortage of breath.

literature

  • Ernst Grabovski: Inner City, Vienna, 1st district . Sutton Verlag GmbH, Vienna 2002. ISBN 978-3-89702-467-0
  • Felix Czeike , Helga Czeike : Vienna: Art, culture and history of the Danube metropolis . DuMont Reiseverlag GmbH, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-77014-348-1
  • Paul Harrer-Lucienfeld: Vienna, its houses, history and culture . Verlag, Volume 1, Part 3, pp. 669–674, Vienna 1951.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rotenturmstrasse next meeting area? (ORF Vienna, March 17, 2015)
  2. ↑ Rotenturmstraße: meeting zone ready (ORF Vienna, November 15, 2019)
  3. ↑ Little Chronicle . "New Silesian Newspaper". 197, pp. 3, 2 August 1910.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 42.8 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 34.6"  E