Salt Office (Vienna)

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The Salt Office in Vienna was housed in the so-called Praghaus . The old Praghaus was built directly onto the tower of St. Rupert's Church. In 1433/1434 it was called "the ducal house that is called Prague".

Wenzel , King of Bohemia, was imprisoned in the Praghaus next to St. Rupert, but was inexplicably able to escape on November 11, 1403. Also Albrecht VI. lived in the Praghaus until the dispute between him and his brother, Emperor Friedrich IV (1458) was settled.

The imperial salt office was relocated to this prague in 1504 and the salt office men took the little church of St. Ruprecht under their protection. The Salzer colliery was obliged to take care of the maintenance of the Ruprechtskirche. The salters were called those "well-resident citizens" who were granted an imperial patent the right to sell the salt that had arrived there by ship on the Gries (salt grit). They were also called "Griesler", from which name the Viennese Greißler later emerged.

Because of the salt free trade introduced on April 1, 1824, the Vienna Salt Office was dissolved. In 1832 the building was demolished. Since it was an "office without function" in the years before the demolition, the Viennese proverb arose according to which one should " complain to the salt office ". The Salzamt Restaurant, designed by Hermann Czech from 1981 to 1983 at Ruprechtsplatz 1, is located in the Bermuda Triangle of Vienna's old town .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Greißler in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. Jump up ↑ Gabriele Hasmann: Unheimliches Österreich: Mysteriöse places and encounters . Ueberreuter, 2013, ISBN 3-80-007568-7 , p. 39.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 43.9 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 28.6 ″  E