Südtiroler Platz (Vienna)
The Südtirolerplatz in Vienna that his name was given in 1927 and previously since 1898 favorite place was called, is located at the intersection of running in a north-south direction Favoritenstraße with the running in east-west direction Wiedner Gürtel (national road B221). It is remarkable due to its supra-local traffic functions. The new Vienna Central Station has been in operation in its immediate vicinity since December 9, 2012 .
The square is largely part of the 4th district of Vienna ; a small part south of the belt belongs to the 10th district .
Today's traffic functions
When the first part of the new main station , which is located in Favoriten a few meters east of Südtiroler Platz, went into operation, the names of most of the public transport stops on or near Südtiroler Platz were changed to the main station on December 9, 2012 . Only in the U1 station did it remain with the double name Südtiroler Platz - Hauptbahnhof for the time being ; the wishes of South Tyrolean politicians to the Viennese city administration should have contributed significantly to this.
The term `` traffic station '', which originated in traffic planning and is not used in stop names, includes stations and stops on the S-Bahn, U-Bahn, tram and bus lines that can serve as feeders to the main train station. The station itself functions on its high-level tracks, among other things, as an S-Bahn stop, but also in terms of operational and information technology, the underground S-Bahn station that has existed since 1962 (it is not located under the station, but under the South Tyrolean Platz), now referred to as Vienna Central Station (platforms 1-2) .
Location details
The numbering of the houses on the square begins in the southwest at the corner of the belt to the extended Graf-Starhemberg-Gasse (Südtiroler Platz 1) and, attached clockwise, leads over the north side to the southeast to the corner of the belt to the extended Favoritenstrasse (No. 9 ). The north side of the square forms the extended Schelleingasse that adjoins both sides.
The south side of the square is, according to the electronic city map of the Vienna city administration, south of the Wiedner belt with the numbers Südtiroler Platz 10 and 11 at the new Südbahnviadukt built in 2010/2011 , the western entrance of the main train station. The two directional lanes south to the adjoining Laxenburger Straße and northwards from Laxenburger Straße and Favoritenstraße only bear these street names south of the viaduct.
The border between the 4th and 10th district in the area of the square does not simply run in an east-west direction, but rather assigns the lane to Laxenburger Straße to the 4th district. Only just before the new viaduct does the district border turn to the west.
history
On the north side of the square facing the city center, the line wall ran until the late 1890s , once the city's second line of defense outside the city walls. In the course of today's Favoritenstrasse, the so-called Favoriten Line , a city gate, ran through the fortifications, which in the 19th century only served as a tax border.
In 1841 the Vienna-Gloggnitz Railway was opened outside the line wall , to which the Wiedner Belt was laid out more than 50 years later. If you wanted to go south along the Favoritenstrasse, you now had to go under the train ; a situation that still exists today.
In 1850 Wieden was incorporated as the 4th district; At that time, this also extended partly outside the line wall. The district parts south of today's belt were raised in 1874 with parts of the 5th district to the new 10th district, Favoriten .
From May 30, 1873, the later Südtiroler Platz was opened up from Schwarzenbergplatz on the edge of the city center with a horse-drawn tram line leading to Favoriten. (On the same day, the line on the Wiedner Gürtel from the Favoriten Line to the Südbahnhof was put into operation.) In 1899/1900 it was switched to electrical operation.
The Favoritenplatz and the surrounding blocks of houses could only be built after the demolition of the line wall, which was not yet completed here in 1898. The square was originally named in the same way as Favoritenstraße, before it was named Südtiroler Platz in 1927 in memory of the annexation of South Tyrol by Italy in 1919 .
In 1901 tram operations began on the inner Laxenburger Strasse. From April 6, 1907, the line signals 66 and until 1945 also N were used for trains in Laxenburger Strasse and 67, from 1914 also 167, for trains in Favoritenstrasse. With the opening of the first section of the U1 underground line under Favoritenstrasse on February 25, 1978 with its underground station Südtiroler Platz , lines 66 and 67 were discontinued in this section.
Line O has been running, coming from the eastern Wiedner Gürtel and turning into Laxenburger Straße, since April 9, 1907, via what will later become Südtiroler Platz. After the opening of the U1 in 1978, it was temporarily led on the belt to Matzleinsdorfer Platz and on to Stefan-Fadinger-Platz in western Favoriten, but soon had to be operated again on the historic route due to passenger protests.
From December 31, 1912, tram line 18 ran on the Wiedner Gürtel via Favoritenplatz to Matzleinsdorfer Platz and on; From 1914 to 1961 there was also line 118. Since May 7, 1959, its Südtiroler Platz stop has been in an underpass (see below), to which a longer tram tunnel under the belt has been connected to the west since January 11, 1969 .
In 1958/59 a large transport construction project was carried out by the city administration. The tram line crossing the square in the course of the Wiedner Belt was lowered, as were the main lanes of the belt. The new underground tram stop was located parallel to the underground train station Südtiroler Platz, which was also completed by 1959 and has served as a rapid transit station on the “main line” of the Vienna S-Bahn since January 17, 1962 . The construction or renovation (with the exception of the not yet finished S-Bahn station) was opened by Mayor Franz Jonas on May 7, 1959 , three days before the National Council election .
Since February 25, 1978, the combination of the S-Bahn / U-Bahn line U1, with a change at Südtiroler Platz, has been connecting the southern environs of Vienna faster than ever with Vienna's city center.
Andreas Hofer monument
On May 14, 1978, a stone stele reminiscent of Andreas Hofer was unveiled in front of house number 3 (extended Graf-Starhemberg-Gasse) on Südtiroler Platz . It was designed by Clemens Holzmeister and executed by Jakob Adlhart : Andreas Hofer is written under a large Tyrolean eagle . This side of the stele is not facing the house front, but the center of the square. The Tyrolean national anthem is engraved on the western side of the stele , but the third stanza of the hymn is missing, which reads: But when from the dungeon bars / In solid Mantua / The loyal brothers in arms / The hands stretched out / Then he called out loudly: “ God be with you, / With the betrayed German Reich. ”In contrast to many others, the monument was not erected by the public purse , but was a project of the“ Tirolerbund ”.
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 396.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Krobot, Josef Otto Slezak, Hans Sternhart: Tram in Vienna - the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow , Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-900134-00-6 , p. 299 ff.
- ↑ The giant Jonas grotto opens today . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 7, 1959, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ A crossing can be beautiful: like the Südtiroler Platz . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 9, 1959, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Wolfgang Czerny, Ingrid Kastel: Vienna II. To IX. and XX. District Dehio Handbook. The art monuments of Austria The art monuments of Austria. Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office, Schroll, Horn / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 205; Der Schlern , Volume 56, 1982, p. 73.
- ^ Wieden: Famous people and their monuments and memorial plaques on the website of the Vienna city administration
- ↑ Picture of the inscription at Commons
- ↑ Complete text of the hymn on the Tyrolean website
- ^ Myth Andreas Hofer - Diploma thesis by Herbert Bachhofer at the University of Vienna, p. 51 f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 10.2 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 25.3" E