Sonnwendviertel

The Sonnwendviertel at Karl-Popper-Straße (right); in the foreground the loop of tram line D on Alfred-Adler-Strasse, which will be in place until 2019 (left)

Alfred-Adler-Strasse near Sonnwendgasse

At Rieplstrasse

At the Helmut Zilk Park

The Sonnwendviertel is a district in Vienna's 10th district, Favoriten . It was created or is being built on a 34 hectare part of the area of the 3rd South Station , which was largely relocated until 2009/2010, on the area of the former freight station, and according to information from the Vienna city administration should be completed by around 2025.

Surname

The name of the neighborhood is not historical; it was introduced by town planners, construction companies, and housing associations around the year 2000 or shortly thereafter. It was modeled on Sonnwendgasse , which was named after the solstice celebrations in 1870. The name of the alley was decided in 1864.

location

The quarter is roughly limited as follows:

Northwest: Alfred-Adler-Straße (extension of Landgutgasse to Ghegastraße in front of the Arsenal); to the north of this is the new main train station and the surrounding 25-hectare Belvedere district, which is under construction .
Northeast: Ostbahn with several tracks (eastern exit zone of the main station); on the other side of the railway line is the large former arsenal , on the city center side is the Schweizergarten with the Belvedere 21 .
South: Gudrunstraße ; to the south of the street there are residential developments in the typical Favoriten grid, which dates back to the late 19th century. From the corner of Gudrunstraße / Sonnwendgasse you can walk south to the Amalienbad after four blocks .
West: Sonnwendgasse ; To the west, after three blocks, follow Favoritenstrasse , the district's main street, with the Keplerplatz underground station on the U1 line. The Favoritenstraße is a pedestrian zone here, so the Sonnwendgasse with its southern extension Herndlgasse takes up a significant part of the individual traffic that used to run through the Favoritenstraße.

Previous use

The area was once far from the gates of the walled city of Vienna south of the suburb of Wieden, which was incorporated in 1850, and was used for agriculture. Acquired urban area south of today's Wieden was merged into the new 10th district, Favoriten , in 1874 . The construction of the Südbahnhof and Ostbahnhof directly outside of the line wall , which separated Wieden and Favoriten until the 1890s, resulted in increasing space requirements for the railway in the following decades. By 1890 the area had long since reached its present size.

The conversion of a lot of freight to trucking and the relocation of the functions of the freight station to other Viennese stations made the area into an area that was rarely used in some cases. Locomotives and wagons that were no longer needed were parked on long loading tracks, which were surrounded by goods sheds. It was not until the year 2000 that the Austrian Federal Railways began to consider opening up or using the area for other uses.

Planning and construction

In consultation with the previous landowner ÖBB, the Vienna City Council decided in 2004 on the master plan for the entire area. A team called district management was set up by the Vienna City Planning Department to answer questions from the population and help ensure acceptance of the project.

The green center of the district is the seven-hectare Helmut-Zilk-Park , most of which opened on July 8, 2016. The EU-wide planning competition for the park was won by the Zurich landscape architects Hager Partner AG.

Around 5,000 apartments for around 13,000 people and around 20,000 jobs are planned in the quarter. Between the park and Gudrunstraße, an educational campus for schools and kindergartens (20,000 square meters) was established by 2014.

In the part of the district located directly to the east of Sonnwendgasse , buildings with 1,160 apartments supported by the city administration were built in 2012–2014.

By 2016, seven property developers had completed their houses on the first three building plots in the district. It is a mixture of subsidized and privately financed private housing. The Ostbahn will be crossed on the Arsenalsteg, which opened in summer 2020 (which leads directly to the Arsenal) and on the Südbahnhofbrücke (between Gudrunstraße and Franz-Grill-Gasse). This was opened to traffic on August 1, 2018.

Cape 10 project

In December 2018, the Cape 10 project was presented, which sees itself as the house of the future and social innovation . Without government support, it is to become a health and social center for people on the fringes of society and to be realized by 2021 at the address 10., Alfred-Adler-Straße 1, at the corner of Maria-Lassnig-Straße, near the Arsenal and the Schweizergarten . The protagonist of the project is Siegfried Meryn, a doctor who is known in Austria through television .

Public transport

Access by public transport is provided by tram line D, which has been running on the western edge of Helmut-Zilk-Park to Absberggasse (see Crete (Vienna) ) since December 2019 and thus crosses the Sonnwendviertel roughly diagonally. There are also stops for lines 6 and 11, which run east-west in the 10th district. As early as 2012, line D was extended from Schweizergarten to the eastern end of the then newly built main station.

New traffic areas

The following previously non-existent traffic areas were created in the quarter:

Alfred-Adler-Strasse, from Sonnwendgasse as an extension of Landgutgasse to the northeast, under the Ostbahn through to Ghegastrasse by the Arsenal
Antonie-Alt-Gasse, from Sonnwendgasse as an extension of Ordengasse eastwards, then northwards to Alfred-Adler-Straße
Artholdgasse, from Gudrunstraße as an extension of Steudelgasse northwards to Hlawkagasse
Bloch-Bauer-Promenade parallel to Helmut-Zilk-Park
Eva-Zilcher-Gasse, at the south-western driveway to the Südbahnhofbrücke , branching off from Gudrunstraße
Hackergasse, from Sonnwendgasse as an extension of Keplergasse eastwards to Antonie-Alt-Gasse
Hlawkagasse, from Gudrunstraße as an extension of Laimäckergasse next to the entrance to the Südbahnhofbrücke north, then westwards

Maria-Lassnig-Straße, from Alfred-Adler-Straße parallel to the railway towards the southeast
Marianne-Pollak-Gasse, from Gudrunstraße as an extension of Gellertgasse northwards to Hlawkagasse
Vally-Weigl-Gasse, from Sonnwendgasse as an extension of Raaber-Bahn-Gasse eastwards to Antonie-Alt-Gasse

Details on the naming of the favorite traffic areas can be found here .