Shooting ranges in Vienna

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The shooting ranges in Vienna were used for exercises in the handling of firearms for military use, sporting use and the self-protection of the Viennese citizens in case they had to defend their city.

Military firing ranges

  • Firing range wall
After the military had already paid compensation for the use of the parish land of the parish of Mauer as a shooting range in 1864 , the property on the Wilder Berg near the two barracks in Mauer was officially leased in 1866 . However, it had been in use since 1834 and an ammunition depot was later built.
  • Kagran shooting range
The Kagran shooting range ("Elementarschießplatz" or "k. And k. Garrison shooting range Vienna") was built in 1871 on a piece of land leased from Klosterneuburg Abbey and used continuously until 1945. During the Nazi regime it was used as a place of execution. Today it is part of the Danube Park .
  • Stammersdorf shooting range
The Stammersdorf firing range was created around 1940 by the German Wehrmacht in Vienna's 21st district and was used by the Red Army during the occupation . The Austrian Armed Forces operate the reduced area as a shooting range for handguns ( assault rifle , machine gun and pistols ). In 1993 the facility was rebuilt and modernized.

Civil firing ranges

  • Lower level
The shooting range in Unteren Werd is the oldest shooting range in Vienna (mentioned in 1444 and 1499). It was located in the area of ​​Taborstrasse and Grosse Mohrengasse. After devastation in 1529, this shooting range was restored in 1535. In 1546 it was relocated.
  • "Schottenpeunt"
The area called Schottenpeunt was located between Währinger Straße , Berggasse and Liechtensteinstraße in what is now the 9th district of Vienna . The shooting range was here until 1683 and was not restored because of the expansion of the undeveloped area in front of the city wall ( glacis ).
  • Alser Strasse / Landesgerichtsstrasse
Because of the expansion of the glacis in the course of the second Turkish siege in 1683, the shooting range was laid out in 1684 on a plot of land called "In den 7 Hofstätten" in the area of Alser Strasse / Landesgerichtsstrasse . Part of the area was ceded in 1732 for the construction of a to replace the closed Stephansfriedhof. The Vienna Regional Court was later set up on another part.
  • Wieden and Hungelbrunn
In 1831 the shooting range was moved to the border between Wieden (Blechturmgasse) and Hungelbrunn ( Wiedner Hauptstrasse , Rainergasse, Kriehubergasse). He stayed here until 1848.
  • Defeat
Until 1683, the foreign wholesalers called "Niederleger" had their own shooting range in the Alservorstadt in the area of ​​Währinger Strasse - Van-Swieten-Gasse. The Josephinum was built on part of the shooting range in 1784 .

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