Tiefer Graben (Vienna)

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The deep moat is spanned by the high bridge

The Tief Graben is a street in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , which runs along a former streambed and delimited the city center of Vienna in the Middle Ages .

history

During the Roman Empire , when the Roman legion camp Vindobona was located in the north of what is now the Inner City , the Ottakringer Bach ran to the west of the fortification. The area has a very steep topography in the former area of ​​the stream confluence with the Danube Canal (at that time a tributary of the Danube ) , which is due, among other things, to a landslide as a result of a flood in the 3rd century. Up until the 13th century, the Ottakringer Bach and the Tief Graben, which were first mentioned in a document in 1186, formed the western border of what was then Vienna's city ​​center .

When the Ottakringer Bach was diverted around 1200 in favor of the construction of the Minorite monastery , an arm of the Alserbach was branched off to the Danube Canal. But this Alsarm was also diverted in 1456 and the disused trickle was filled in. The former streambed, however, was never completely filled up and brought to the street level of its surroundings, which is why it still digs as a furrow through the surrounding area.

Corner of Strauchgasse / Heidenschuß, memory of the Turkish siege in 1529

The depth of the trench extends from the corner Strauchgasse / Heidenschuss to Concordiaplatz and from the on High Bridge leading Wipplingerstraße crossed. One of the best-known addresses on the Tiefen Graben is probably the Hotel Orient , which was mentioned in a document as early as the 17th century as the Schankhaus Orient . The name can be explained by the shipmen who frequented the bar and brought goods from the Orient to Vienna by water. Two doors down, the small club discotheque Why Not was opened in 1979 , the first and for a long time the only permanent gay disco in Vienna (to which women are also allowed).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Gietl, M. Kronberger, M. Mosser (2003): Reconstruction of the ancient site in the inner city of Vienna
  2. ↑ Alexander Seidl (2006): The (in) visible brook - The Ottakringerbach in the Viennese cityscape - a search for traces ( Memento from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Christian Högl: Rainbow Parade 2004 - Exuberant Festival on the Ring , Lambda-Nachrichten No. 101, 3/2004 (PDF file; 3.43 MB), p. 7 ff. ( HTML version ) 25th anniversary

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 45 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 6 ″  E