Trotting grounds

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Coat of arms of the city of Vienna Trotting grounds community housing
in Vienna
Trotting grounds
location
Address: Rennbahnweg 27
District: Danube city
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '28 "  N , 16 ° 27' 15"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '28 "  N , 16 ° 27' 15"  E
Architecture and art
Construction time: 1973-1977
Apartments: 2424 in 59 stairs
Architects: Fritz Gerhard Mayr, Walter Vasa, Brigitte Wiedmann
Artwork by: Hans Muhr , Karl Anton Wolf , Roland Goeschl , Josef Schagerl junior
Cultural property register of the city of Vienna
Municipal building for trotting grounds in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)

The trotting grounds are a large housing estate on Rennbahnweg 27 in Vienna's 22nd district, Donaustadt . The complex, which was built from 1973 to 1977 and is often colloquially called Rennbahnweg or just Rennbahnweg , is one of the largest municipal housing developments in Vienna.

history

The Rennbahnweg is named after a former horse racing track
Metal sculpture by Josef Schagerl junior
patio

The area of ​​today's Trabrenngrund residential complex was used by the Wiener Trabrenn-Verein from 1894 . From 1895 to 1897, a horse stud with a water tower was built according to drafts by the Drexler brothers ( Josef Drexler , 1850–1922; Anton Drexler , 1858–1940) . In addition to the training facility for trotting horses, a 1,200-meter-long race track was laid out. The length of the facility was 730 meters, reaching from Rennbahnweg northeast to a little beyond today's Maculangasse . The Kagran stud aimed at increasing horse breeding in Austria, and the training track also served as an auxiliary track for those on the Krieau trotting track . In 1928, the path leading from the nearby Wagramer Straße to the racetrack was officially named Rennbahnweg . When the expansion of Vienna began to develop even beyond the Danube , the City of Vienna bought the so-called trotting grounds for 28 million schillings (a little more than 2 million euros ) from the trotting club in 1963 .

In 1973, construction work began on the municipal housing complex based on designs by architects Fritz Gerhard Mayr , Manfred Schuster and others. The system was built on the green field using a heavy concrete slab construction method . The first apartments were handed over to tenants as early as 1974, and the complex was completed in 1977. At the time there were around 10,000 residents.

As there was almost no urban infrastructure in the immediate vicinity, there were mainly fields and meadows around the residential complex, a youth center and a separate Rennbahnweg shopping center (today: Rennbahnpassage , Rennbahncenter ) were built, which includes a grocery store, among other things had a tobacco shop and a boutique. On September 11, 1977, after around a year of construction, the parish church of St. Christoph on Rennbahnweg was inaugurated. The church, built according to designs by the IGIRIEN studio community , is located in the immediate vicinity of the trotting grounds on the other side of the racetrack path.

Since a relatively high crime rate was determined in the first years of settlement and the majority of the reports received at the responsible guard room at Kagraner Platz concerned Rennbahnweg, 24 police officers started their duty in the new guard room on Rennbahnweg in November 1977. In autumn 2008, the police station moved to the nearby Puchgasse north of the facility.

In order to get from the Rennbahnweg settlement to the center of Vienna by public transport, it originally required a long tram ride . This improved significantly when, in 1982, the U1 underground line was extended to Kagran station (at that time: Zentrum Kagran ). In 2006 the U1 was finally extended to Leopoldau , the Rennbahnweg station opened in the course of this extension is located directly at the residential complex.

In 1992 the municipality of Vienna decided to completely refurbish the residential complex, which spanned more than a decade and cost around 44.8 million euros. Among other things, 25,000 windows were replaced, the originally uniformly gray façades were given a colorful design and the system was connected to the district heating system . A tenant support center set up in connection with the renovation was now also available for questions and complaints outside of the construction work. The establishment of the monthly tenant newspaper Der Rennbahnweg was also intended to counteract the rather poor image of the facility, which had arisen from media reports over the years, and to provide residents with positive impulses to identify with their immediate living environment.

A study, Mein Heimat Rennbahnweg 27 , carried out at the beginning of the 2000s , which dealt with the situation and satisfaction of the residents as a “living environment analysis ”, had, among other things, the result that the security in the residential complex was assessed positively and the majority of those questioned had a strong bond feels about her and is ready for neighborly help.

The trotting grounds consist of 59 staircases with over 2,400 apartments. The total area including the green areas is around 195,000 m². The residential complex is surrounded by Rennbahnweg, Hugo-Wiener-Weg, Lieblgasse and Austerlitzgasse, which runs parallel to Wagramer Straße. The number of residents has fallen over the decades from around 10,000 at the time of completion to currently around 7,000, which can be attributed to the trend towards single households and families with few or no children.

The official name of the residential complex is Trabrennböden , but other names such as Rennbahngrund or Trabrenngrund-Hof are also in use. Due to the address of the complex, the most common names include terms such as Rennbahnweg or Rennbahnsiedlung , especially in common parlance , and the mere location “ on Rennbahnweg ” became synonymous with municipal housing .

Architecture and design

Fountain sculpture by Hans Muhr

The contiguous residential complex in the area of ​​Austerlitzgasse connected by the shopping center is grouped around seven large inner and outer courtyards. The number of floors varies in a relaxed arrangement between 7 and 15. In combination with components of different facade depths, this results in a varied silhouette.

In the courtyards you will find some examples of art in architecture , such as the Vegetative Sculpture fountain created by Hans Muhr in 1978 , the painted concrete sculpture color composition by Roland Goeschl (1976), the metal sculpture Dynamics I by Karl Anton Wolf and the chrome-nickel steel sculpture Heliakos ST 82 (1977) by Josef Schagerl junior , which has only been at its current location since 2008 when it had to give way to the underground line. On a green area in the outer courtyard on Hugo-Wiener-Weg stands a wayside shrine , the Christophorus-Marterl , that was created in the 1980s .

Infrastructure

Today there are numerous infrastructural facilities in the residential complex and in its vicinity. This includes several schools, kindergartens, playgrounds, and sports fields and clubs. The Rennbahnpassage shopping center has two supermarkets, a pharmacy, a tobacconist, a hairdresser and several restaurants.

The connection to the public transport network is guaranteed primarily by the Rennbahnweg station, which is served by the U1 underground line, two bus lines and a night bus. There are further bus stations on the streets surrounding the residential complex.

Cultural and media

The Falcogasse crosses the trotting grounds

In the 1980s there were some modern legends in Vienna about the trotting grounds. Among other things, a tenant is said to have kept a horse on the balcony and a pensioner is said to have almost been hit by a moped in the corridor, whereupon she was handed over to the psychiatry due to her statements that appear implausible. The horse was actually kept in the apartment, as was the moped driver who hit a neighbor in the corridor and injured him, which led the responsible police inspection to the first recording of a traffic accident inside an apartment building.

The 1996 documentary The dream that stays by Leopold Lummerstorfer has the Rennbahnweg settlement as its theme and location. The living conditions of twenty residents of the residential complex are outlined. The shooting took place during the window replacement work in the course of the general renovation, which was also discussed in the plot of the film. In the summer of 1995 the film team temporarily moved into an apartment in the complex and used it as a base on site.

Natascha Kampusch , who became famous through her abduction in 1998, lived in the Rennbahnsiedlung during her childhood, which she reports on in her autobiography.

In 2008, an approximately 250-meter-long walkway that crosses the facility was named in Falcogasse , as the pop star Falco once lived here with his mother. The street sign was ceremoniously unveiled in June 2009.

The TV series Die Lottosieger , which will be broadcast on ORF in March 2009, is about a family living on Rennbahnweg who suddenly becomes wealthy by winning the lottery. Many of the exterior shots were shot in the condominium.

literature

Web links

Commons : Trotting Reasons  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Across the Danube. In: diepresse.com . Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
  2. ^ Horse stud with water tower in Kagran (part 1/3). In:  Der Bautechniker , born in 1898, March 4, 1898, No. 9/1898 (18th year), p. 153 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction;
    - (Part 2/3). In:  Der Bautechniker , born in 1898, March 11, 1898, No. 10/1898 (-), p. 173 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction;
    - (Part 3/3). In:  Der Bautechniker , born in 1898, March 18, 1898, No. 11/1898 (-), p. 197 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction.
  3. Kagran Stud. In:  The Architect , born in 1895, (Volume I), p. 52. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / arc.
  4. History of the Wiener Trabrenn-Verein  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.krieau.at  
  5. Parish Sankt Christoph am Rennbahnweg - Our Church  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 557 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sanktchristoph.at  
  6. a b Federal Ministry of the Interior - Hot spots in the green (PDF file; 218 kB)
  7. Fekter: New police station opens Puchgasse - More police in the field than a year before the 2000
  8. malmoe.org - social housing in Vienna
  9. wien.at - information show about "Lebensweltanalysis" on Rennbahnweg
  10. sagen.at - Skiers rammed pensioner in the stairwell, variant V
  11. derstandard.at - The living machine
  12. blackbox films - The dream that remains ( Memento from March 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  13. Natascha Kampusch, 3096 Tage, List Verlag 2010, p. 14 ff.
  14. wien.at - Neue Straßenennamen, October 7, 2008, Falcogasse ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  15. ^ Wien.at - Vienna is getting a Falcogasse
  16. Shooting: "Lotto Winner" soon as a series (ORF Vienna, August 26, 2008)