Schwedenplatz
| Schwedenplatz | |
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 Schwedenplatz, looking west |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Vienna |
| District | Inner city |
| Newly designed | 1978 |
| Confluent streets | Franz-Josefs-Kai |
| Buildings | Schwedenbrücke , Uniqa hotel and commercial building |
| use | |
| User groups | Cars , underground ( U1 , U4 ), trams , ships , pedestrians |
| Space design | Streets , tram stops |
The Schwedenplatz is located in the first district of Vienna , Inner City , on the right bank of the Danube Canal and is one of the most important hubs of public transport in Vienna . It represents an extension of the Franz-Josefs-Kai , which runs here . Schwedenbrücke and Schwedenplatz were given their current names in November 1919 by a resolution of the city council chaired by Mayor Jakob Reumann in gratitude for Sweden's help after the First World War, especially the children Vienna benefited.
history
Rotenturm Gate, bridge
From the Middle Ages to 1858, the Rotenturmtor of the city wall of Vienna stood at today's Schwedenplatz, which enabled direct access from Vienna to the arm of the Danube (now the Danube Canal) that reached the city . At the narrowest point of the arm of the Danube, near today's Schwedenbrücke , the striking bridge (already mentioned in the middle of the 15th century) was built over the arm of the Danube, for a long time the only bridge over the Danube. On the other bank, the suburb, later called Leopoldstadt , developed on the Donauinsel Unterer Werd , since 1850 the 2nd district of Vienna . The striking bridge was replaced from 1819 by the new building named after the then Crown Prince Ferdinand .
Place on the quay
After the Rotenturm Gate was demolished, the Franz-Josefs-Kai was laid out along the Danube Canal by 1860. It was given a square-like extension at the bridge, which was named after the predecessor of the ruling monarch Kaiser-Ferdinand- Platz in 1897 . The size of the square at that time can still be seen from the few house numbers on the square: No. 1 was the side of the block between Adlergasse and the quay, which was destroyed in 1945, and is not available today, No. 2 is the corner house on Laurenzerberg (which has been located since A pharmacy is located in 1925), at numbers 3 and 4 is the Dr.-Alma-Motzko-Seitz-Hof , which was built after 1945 and in which the Hotel Capricorno is located, among other things, number 5 is the side of the house 21 Dominikanerbastei (corner Postgasse).
An artillery duel took place on the Danube Canal in 1945 in the course of the Battle of Vienna , to which many buildings fell victim, especially around Schwedenplatz. The block of houses in front of today's house front between Laurenzerberg and Rotenturmstraße , then Adlergasse, was so badly destroyed that it was not rebuilt. The area was incorporated into today's Schwedenplatz in terms of design, including two exits to the Schwedenplatz station . The houses facing the old town on Adlergasse, which was deleted from the street directory in 1954, were not given the address Schwedenplatz, but house numbers 13 to 23 of Franz-Josefs-Kai.
Traffic history
The quay has been used by the horse tramway since 1869 and has been used by the electric tram since 1898 . Details on the historical tram traffic on the quay and ring are given here .
In 1901 a station on the new Danube Canal line of the Vienna Steam City Railway was opened at Ferdinandsplatz , which was reopened in 1925 by the municipality of Vienna as the Vienna Electric Light Rail . At street level there were two pavilion-like reception buildings with side platforms, designed by Otto Wagner , upstream and downstream of the bridge .
Although almost undamaged and in operation after the end of the Second World War in 1945, in keeping with the zeitgeist of the time, they were demolished and replaced in the same place by modern functional buildings from the 1950s. In 1976 at the latest, these were also demolished in connection with the conversion of the Danube Canal line from the Stadtbahn to the underground and replaced by a temporary access structure made of wood and with a central platform at the level of the directional structure facing Landstrasse.
In 1978 the surface of the square was completely redesigned and the U4 subway station was built on the side of the Franz-Josefs-Kai as the last traffic structure on Schwedenplatz . At the downstream end of the central platform, at the level of the former provisional wooden structure access to the station, there has been a stairway over a simple glass structure since the renovation.
Since 1979 the U4 has been crossed by the lower line U1 , which is connected to the Schwedenplatz station. To this day, the U4 platforms are at the level of the pre-quay to the Danube Canal.
Video surveillance
In 2005, in response to petty crime, in particular drug trafficking and acquisitive crime , the first place in Vienna was to install mobile video cameras from the Vienna Federal Police Department on Schwedenplatz . The video surveillance hit the negative headlines in December of the same year when it became known that the cameras were not only watching Schwedenplatz, but also the windows of adjacent apartments.
Transport hub
Schwedenplatz is now an important traffic junction on the edge of the old town. In addition to the two underground lines U1 and U4, tram lines 1 and 2, city bus line 2A, a bus line to Vienna Airport , an entry and exit point for tourist buses, the four- to five-lane, one-way eastbound lane of Franz -Josefs-Kais and the Wien City boat station opened in 2010. From here the so-called Twin City Liner , a fast catamaran , runs three times a day to Bratislava . The Rotenturmstraße, which connects it with Stephansplatz , flows into Schwedenplatz . On the wide sidewalk and cycle path at street level along the right bank of the Danube Canal, cycle traffic flows between the further cycle crossings.
Discussion about redesign since 2011
The contiguous square accompanies the Danube Canal on the right-hand side over a length of about 300 m , which comes from the northwest and finally flows in a slight left curve to the east-south-east. At the right pier there is a sidewalk, about 10 m higher is the level of the square with the following sidewalk (sidewalk and bike path) and the multi-lane road of Franz-Josefs-Kai . The tall buildings initially step back 70 m from this lane. In the northwest, in the first sixth of its length, the square is called Morzinplatz , then Franz-Josefs-Kai and in the east Schwedenplatz, where it continuously tapers to 50 m (away from the quay road).
In autumn 2011 an exhibition on the history and developments in the Schwedenplatz-Morzinplatz area was shown in the Wien Museum . The "Vision for the future of Schwedenplatz" had been drawn up by autumn 2013. On the surface, a more quality experience for pedestrians was sought.
In autumn 2015, the city administration started a redesign competition. Traffic conditions were
- four straight lanes on Franz-Josef-Kai
- Pivoting of the tram tracks in the Morzinplatz area
- Expansion of the footpaths and bike paths.
60 projects from Germany and abroad were presented to citizens in a dialogue box and on the Internet in February 2016, and feedback was obtained. 2,300 people submitted ideas personally, 700 via the Internet.
Attractions
The popular and highly frequented ice cream parlor on Schwedenplatz is located on Schwedenplatz . Not far from there is the small stage Theater am Schwedenplatz , run by Herbert Lederer as a one-man operation from 1970 to 2006 , which was reopened in 2014 by Alexander Waechter under the name Theater franzjosefskai21 . Schwedenplatz is also a corner point of Vienna's Bermuda Triangle , a zone with numerous restaurants that was established in the early 1980s. The Ruprechtskirche , one of the oldest sacred buildings in the city, and the Urania , which houses an adult education center , a cinema and the Urania puppet stage (Kasperl & Pezi), are also in the immediate vicinity . The Uraniakino is one of the venues for the Viennale film festival every year . Directly opposite Schwedenplatz, already in the 2nd district and accessible via Schwedenbrücke , on the corner plots on Taborstraße are the Media Tower planned by the architect Hans Hollein and completed in 2001, and on the right the hotel tower by Jean Nouvel , which opened in December 2010 and used as "Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom" is operated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minutes of the city senate meeting of November 6, 1919, quoted from Renate Schreiber: "Great power in human love" - Swedish children's aid after the First World War. In: Viennese history sheets. Edited by the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, issue 3/2009, p. 76, note 86.
- ^ Walter Krobot, Josef Otto Slezak, Walter Sternhart: Tram in Vienna the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow, Slezak, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-900134-00-6 , p. 299f.
- ↑ a b See photo documentation of the Ferdinandsbrücke tram station (later Schwedenplatz) with the Otto Wagner reception buildings of the steam light rail in 1900, 1901 and later electric light rail, here in 1945; as well as the modern functional building of the station towards Heiligenstadt from the 1950s. In: Stadtbahn. Posting by tramway.at/Harald A. Jahn on February 24, 2016 and the following in tramwayforum.at (pictures only visible with registration), accessed on October 31, 2018.
- ↑ Holger Dambeck: Video surveillance: Wiener Verein hackt Polizeikamera (Quintessenz), Der Spiegel , December 29, 2005, last accessed February 18, 2016.
- ↑ https://www.wien.gv.at/stadtentwicklung/projekte/schwedenplatz/ausstellung2011.html Review of the exhibition "Platz für die Stadt - Schwedenplatz-Morzinplatz", Stadtentwicklung Wien, undated, accessed February 18, 2016 - numerous materials.
- ↑ https://www.wien.gv.at/stadtentwicklung/projekte/schwedenplatz/ Neugestaltung Schwedenplatz-Morzinplatz, 2015/2016, accessed February 18, 2016.
- ↑ http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2758388/ 3,000 ideas for Schwedenplatz neu, orf.at, February 18, 2016, accessed February 18, 2016.
literature
- Florentine Bachmann: Structural addition along the Danube Canal in the Schwedenplatz-Morzinplatz area . Diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 1987
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 41 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 44 ″ E