Stubenbrücke

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The Stubenbrücke over the Wien River (with Franz West's lemur heads)

The Stubenbrücke is a bridge over the Wien River and connects the two municipal districts of Inner City and Landstrasse .

history

View of the Stubentorbrücke and the wooden bridge over the moat in 1609
"View of the Stubenthorbrücke before work begins"
"View of the new Stubenthorbrücke"

Since the beginning of the 15th century at the latest, there has been a bridge over the Wien River at the site of today's Stubenbrücke, over which one can walk from the Stubentor of the Viennese city fortifications to Nikolaivorstadt, the nearby Cistercian monastery and the suburb of Landstrasse or via Ungargasse towards Hungary could get. This bridge has been rebuilt or rebuilt several times over the centuries.

When the Vienna River was regulated in the Vienna area at the end of the 19th century, numerous new bridges were built. The architect Friedrich Ohmann and Josef Hackhofer that later the Wienfluss installation at a city park designed, designed the new bridges between City Park and the mouth of the river Wien in the Danube Canal , where from 1899 to 1900, the Radetzky Bridge , Small Marxer bridge , the Zollamtssteg and instead of stone Stubentorbrücke the Stubenbrücke were built. The iron construction of the truss of the Stubenbrücke was made by Ignaz Gridl .

Since then the bridge has been renovated and rebuilt several times, for example after the Second World War and in 1959. In the area of ​​the Stubenbrücke, the U3 underground line has crossed the Wien River since 1991 .

In 2001, on the occasion of the exhibition “Franz West: Gnadenlos” in the neighboring Museum of Applied Art , four “lemur heads” designed by Franz West were placed on the pylons of the Stubenbrücke. These sculptures, made of aluminum and white lacquer, were originally intended to adorn the bridge only for the duration of the exhibition, but were made available to the MAK as a permanent loan and became a permanent art installation on the Stubenbrücke. At the end of 2014, the lemur heads were dismantled for the purpose of restoration; they were re-erected on January 28, 2016.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albertinischer Plan (1421/1422) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Ringstrasse, iron structures by Ignaz Gridl
  3. ↑ MAK in Public Space - Franz West, Four Lemur Heads ( Memento from February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Four lemur heads. In: KÖR Art in Public Space Vienna. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Uncertainty for the lemur heads (derStandard.at, December 9, 2014)
  6. ↑ Where are the lemurs? (DiePresse.com, August 29, 2015)
  7. ↑ The comeback of the lemur heads (derStandard.at, January 28, 2016)

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '24.1 "  N , 16 ° 22' 56.4"  E