Sommerhaidenweg
The Sommerhaidenweg in Neustift am Walde is the border between the Viennese districts of Währing and Döbling for about 2 km . It runs along a barely built-up ridge that runs from Pötzleinsdorf to the west up to the Höhenstraße at the foot of the Dreimarkstein.
It was named in 1901 after the Sommerhaiden at its upper end, where the Michaeler Wald (387 m) falls to Neustift. On the slope south of the Sommerhaidenweg there is the picturesque Neustift cemetery , from which almost all of Vienna can be seen. Arthur Schnitzler often wandered along here.
For decades, the trail was a meeting point for amateur astronomy - around 1000 times in total . This is where the founder of the Austrian Astro Club, Oswald Thomas , held his two-week star tours from around 1920 , during which he explained the planets and constellations to a large audience . When the street lighting reached this ridge around 1950, he was able to arrange for the city administration to switch it off temporarily. How lively the popular folk artist must have kept his explanations can be guessed from several of his popular astronomical books.
At the end of the 1990s, his successor, Hermann Mucke , succeeded in finding an even better observation site on the south-western outskirts of the city and adapting it for guided tours, the Sterngarten on Georgenberg in Vienna- Mauer .
literature
- Oswald Thomas: Astronomy - Facts and Problems. Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Graz 1934. (more recent editions up to 1960)
- Oswald Thomas, Richard Teschner : Atlas of the constellations. Self publisher, 1945 to 1963.
- Paul Wertheimer: Sommerhaidenweg. New poems. Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich: Rikola-Verlag 1921.
supporting documents
- ↑ Paul Wertheimer: Arthur Schnitzler, the narrator. In: Radio Vienna. May 9, 1927. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 59.3 " N , 16 ° 17 ′ 37.5" E