St. Leonhard (Graz)

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St. Leonhard
2nd district of Graz		 AUT Graz COA.svg
Basic data
Surface: 1.83 km²
Residents: 15,335 (January 1, 2017)
Population density: 8,271 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes: 8010, 8016
Geographical location: 47 ° 4 ′  N , 15 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′  N , 15 ° 27 ′  E
Location in Graz
Map of St. Leonhard (Graz)
District Office: Stiftingtalstrasse 3
8010 Graz
District Head: Andreas Molnár ( ÖVP )
1. Deputy District Head: Severin Kann ( GREEN )
2nd deputy district head: Andreas Nitsche ( KPÖ )
Public transportation: Tram lines: 1, 3, 7, 13
Bus lines: 41, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64 / E,
N1, N3, N7
photo
Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart Church
St. Leonhard around 1830, Lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz

St. Leonhard is the 2nd district of Graz . It is located east of downtown Graz along the Leonhardbach . To the south it extends to the St. Peter city cemetery.

history

St. Leonhard goes back to one of the oldest medieval settlements in the Graz area ( Guntarn 1043). In 1361 the first church was mentioned in a document at this point. During the French siege of the Graz Schloßberg in 1809, there were also several skirmishes around the St. Leonhard Church. For a short time around 400 Austrians were interned as French prisoners in the parish church, many of whom died here during the fighting that followed. A provisional hospital was then set up in the former schoolhouse, now the sacristan's house. In 1824 the Protestant Church of the Savior was built in the west of today's district at the "Holzplatz" (today Kaiser-Josef-Platz) . In the second half of the 19th century, the free space between the city center of Graz and the village of St. Leonhard served as a settlement area. At this time, most of the bourgeois houses were built on Elisabethstrasse and Leonhardstrasse and in the Herz-Jesu-Viertel. A new church, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche , was consecrated there in 1887 .

By December 1, 1900 is the II. District Jakomini of II. District Leonhard separated and Jakomini as VI. New city ​​district created. On July 16, 1913, the borough's two brooks, Leonhardbach and Kroisbach (today: Mariatrosterbach), caused the last - and most devastating - flood, after which they were canalised in the urban area.

education

traffic

  • Until the middle of the 19th century, Leonhardstrasse was the only way from Graz to the east. Then Elisabethstrasse was built parallel to this on the northern border of the district .
  • Tram lines 1, 3, 7, 13; Bus routes 41, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 64E.

Buildings

  • Parish Church of St. Leonhard : First mentioned in a document in 1361. In 1433 the oldest part of the church that still exists today is consecrated. After it was destroyed by the Turks in 1532 and rebuilt, the church tower was given its current shape in 1717. In 1747 the church was redesigned in baroque style . In 1817 the cemetery around the church was closed and moved to its current location southeast of the church. In 1858 the interior was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style. The last extension for the time being followed in 1961. Next to the church is the St. Leonhard Cemetery with the graves of numerous important personalities.
  • Church of the Heart of Jesus : built from 1881 to 1887 by architect Georg Hauberrisser in neo-Gothic style with a large nave and lower church. At 109.6 m, the church tower is the third highest church tower in Austria. Particularly noteworthy are the glass windows, which are one of the few closed ensembles of neo-Gothic glass art. Gustav Troger redesigned the chancel for the centenary in 1988 .
  • Heilandskirche : After the issue of the tolerance patent by Emperor Joseph II , it is again possible to build Protestant places of worship with some conditions. However, since Graz did not meet these conditions, they joined the nearest Protestant parish in Wald am Schoberpaß and founded a branch church in 1821. On October 10, 1824, the building of the house of prayer at the then Holzplatz (today Kaiser-Josef-Platz) was completed. In 1853 this was converted into a church by Franz Zehengruber, as it is still today. In 1856, the mother parish in Wald am Schoberpass is separated. From 1988–1993 the church was renovated and received colored glass windows designed by the Graz artist Edith Temmel .
  • Old Technology : main building of the Technical University of Graz , 1888 by Emperor Franz Joseph I opened.
  • Odilien-Blindeninstitut : Former Guntarn-Hof. Built in 1798. Asylum for the blind since 1881. Additions in 1885 and 1901.
  • Steirerhof : Formerly a grand hotel, demolished in the 1990s and replaced by a modern new building, it now includes a shopping center.
  • Palais Meran : former city palace of Johann von Österreich , built in 1843. Today it houses the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .
  • Palais Kottulinsky : former city palace, built in 1853.
  • many bourgeois houses from the 2nd half of the 19th century, mostly arranged as blocks with a green inner courtyard.

Others

  • The 2004 film Six Days and the Moped Woman (director: Alfred Schwarzenberger ) is set entirely in St. Leonhard, with the Sacred Heart Church playing a particularly prominent role. The life of the sometimes strange inhabitants of the district is described in a more or less documentary way.

photos

  • Odilien Institute for the Blind

  • View into Naglergasse, in the background the Herz-Jesu-Kirche

  • Schillerplatz

  • House with Art Nouveau facade, Naglergasse / Schützenhofgasse intersection

  • Glance into Naglergasse

  • View into Sparbersbachgasse

  • Heilandskirche on Kaiser-Josef-Platz

  • Naglergasse, Herz-Jesu-Kirche

  • Row of houses in front of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers + facts: population, districts, economy, geography on graz.at.
  2. ↑ a b c District Representation St. Leonhard on graz.at
  3. ↑ Fritz Posch : The settlement and emergence of the province of Styria in Das Werden der Steiermark - Die Zeit der Traungauer , Festschrift for the 800th return of the elevation to the duchy, publisher Gerhard Pferschy , Verlag Styria Graz 1980
  4. ^ Franz A. Brauner: Graz and the immediate vicinity. Leykam, Graz 1966.
  5. ↑ Z (ah) l 154631 / III. Announcement. In:  Grazer Tagblatt / Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine countries / Neues Grazer Tagblatt / Neues Grazer Morgenblatt. Morning edition of the Neues Grazer Tagblatt / Neues Grazer Abendblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Grazer Tagblatt / (Süddeutsches) Tagblatt with the illustrated monthly “Bergland” , morning edition, No. 330/1900 (Xth year), November 28, 1900, p. 10. (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb.
  6. ^ City of Graz - Department for Green Space and Water: July 1913. Documented floods ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: wasser.graz.at , accessed on February 10, 2013, and
    terrible flood disaster in Graz and the surrounding area. In:  Grazer Vorortezeitung , No. 3/1913 (Volume I), July 20, 1913, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gvz.
  7. ↑ Odilien Institute Graz (homepage)