Südstadt (municipality of Maria Enzersdorf)

Südstadt ( settlement )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Mödling  (MD), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Mödling
Pole. local community	Maria Enzersdorf   ( KG  Maria Enzersdorf)
Locality	Maria Enzersdorf
Coordinates (K)	48 ° 5 '42 "  N , 16 ° 18' 21"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '42 "  N , 16 ° 18' 21"  E
height	200  m above sea level A.
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Südstadt-Süd Südstadt-Zentrum (31716 006/007)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS ; (K) Coordinate not official

Südstadt, administration building of EVN

Row of bungalows, Donaustraße

shopping mall

Südstadt, apartment block, Hohe-Wand-Straße

Stilt house, Dobrastrasse

The southern part is a district of the market town of Maria Enzersdorf in the southern outskirts of Vienna .

location

Located in the east of the municipality, the southern part of the city is bordered by Triester Straße (B17), in the south by Steinfeldstraße zu Wiener Neudorf and Grenzgasse zu Mödling . In the west, the St. Gabriel mission house and its properties (Großes Steinfeld) are connected and in the north the southern part of the city is delimited by the street In den Schnablern and Brunn am Gebirge .

Idea and history

The idea of ​​straightforward construction with plenty of living space and free (green) areas basically goes back to the 1920s. The best-known representatives of New Building were Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and, in Austria, Adolf Loos . In 1926, plans for the expansion of the city in the south of Vienna were also shown in Vienna.

When Greater Vienna during the Nazi era was reduced to its current size in 1954 and numerous places returned to Lower Austria , these urban development plans were taken up again. The state of Lower Austria was now planning to relocate the administrative headquarters of NEWAG, the state-owned electricity company, and NIOGAS, the also state-owned gas company (today combined in EVN AG ) from Vienna to Lower Austrian territory and to create a large housing estate for the employees in connection with the new company headquarters to build.

The site between the center of Maria Enzersdorf and Triester Strasse south of Vienna was chosen as the building site; hence the name Südstadt. In a competition, the team of architects Wilhelm Hubatsch / Franz Kiener / Gustav Peichl was awarded the contract for their project for the South Garden City . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 12, 1960.

Building and residential structure

From 1961 to 1966, 1219 residential units were built, and another 787 followed by 1975. Many designs of this new building have been implemented in the southern part of the city: from the single-storey , compact low-rise building ( called bungalow in the southern part of the city ) to single-storey variants, two- and four-storey stilt houses for a clear view on the pedestrian level (today mostly overgrown with bushes and trees) and three-story apartment blocks up to two high-rise buildings, originally intended as a symbolic entrance gate from Vienna.

To the east of the settlement, on Triester Straße, are the large EVN administration building and the Südstadt stadium with the national sports and leisure center known throughout Austria. In the middle of the Südstadt there is a shopping center with a post office, restaurants and offices, followed by the Südstadtkirche and, to the west, separated by a parking lot, an elementary school and kindergarten. The buildings are largely heated and watered using district heating from the Mödling biomass cogeneration plant .

The population of the southern part of the city is around 4,000, which is roughly half the total number of inhabitants in Maria Enzersdorf. Since the apartments were originally awarded primarily to employees today EVN AG and all residential units in private (subsidized) housing ownership are, the southern city was the fate of many satellite towns spared and large housing estates, the social focal point to be.

traffic

The southern part of the city should be pedestrian-friendly and as car-free as possible, although many residents need (s) cars to do their shopping and to reach jobs, leisure and cultural facilities in the region.

You can drive right up to the houses in the southern part of the city, but through traffic is not possible. All routes within the southern part of the city can be done on foot. Traffic in the region has increased considerably over the years, however, as the suburb of southern Vienna has been growing steadily since the 1960s and people have got used to the individual mobility that comes with private car ownership. Public transport has been increased, but can only partially serve the extensive settlement area in the Vienna Basin .

Südstadt is in close proximity to the high-ranking road network with the A2 motorway , the outer ring motorway (A21 and S1) and Triester Straße (B17). Vienna Airport is also easily accessible. In addition, the southern part of the city has a stop for the Wiener Lokalbahnen (WLB, Badner Bahn ), which is actually already in the Neudorf district of Vienna. It was opened in 1964. Several bus routes lead to Vienna and the surrounding communities.

The connection between Südstadt and what was then NEWAG can still be seen today from the street names of the settlement, which are reminiscent of the locations of NEWAG power plants: Erlaufstraße, Dobrastraße, Ottensteinstraße, Thurnbergstraße, Kampstraße, Theißplatz, Hohe-Wand-Straße, Wienerbruckstraße and Donaustraße.

Austrian Competitive Sports Center Südstadt (ÖLSZ)

Main grandstand of the BSFZ-Arena , formerly the federal stadium Südstadt (2008)

The Austrian Competitive Sports Center Südstadt is an institution funded by the Federal Ministry of Defense and Sport to introduce Austrian athletes to the European and world class and to promote talent.

The history of the center began after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , when the trainer Gunnar Prokop and his athletes, such as Liese Prokop , Eva Janko , Maria Sykora and Ilona Gusenbauer from the Union St. Pölten joined the KSV NÖ Energie , the cultural and sports association of the national subsidiaries of NEWAG and NIOGAS , changed.

In view of the training and competition successes achieved there, NEWAG and NIOGAS wanted to expand the existing training grounds. Financial difficulties of the company prevented this. Discussions were held with the responsible sports ministry, which then rejected existing plans for a federal sports center on Georgenberg in Vienna and instead selected the 260,000 m² site in the southern part of the city.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 28, 1971, and the Südstadt sports center was completed on May 5, 1975. The focus was on swimming , athletics , fencing and tennis in particular . Later, the sports were judo , cycling and women's handball added. On September 3, 1975, the first students moved into the sports boarding school, which is also part of the Südstadt sports performance model.

In 1999 there were renovations worth 10 million euros, with the sports facilities being brought up to date and a new judo and fencing center created. Today 150 athletes train in the ÖLSZ.

The Bundesstadion Südstadt with a capacity of 12,000 spectators, which is also part of this area, was initially renamed the Trenkwalder Arena in 2008 after the sponsor of the soccer club FC Admira Wacker Mödling and in August 2013 it was renamed the BSFZ-Arena .

literature

• Festive brochure on the occasion of the exhibition 25 Years Südstadt, 1985

Web links

• Website of the Austrian Competitive Sports Center Südstadt
• Website of the federal sports and leisure center Südstadt (as of December 18, 2014)
• Südstadt in RegiowikiAT

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Railways in the south of Vienna , p. 65, 2015, Verlag Kral, ISBN 978-3-99024-303-9
2. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Competitive Sports Center Südstadt online at the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport ; As of May 26, 2010.
3. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. online at www.oelsz.at; As of May 26, 2010.