Arne Karlsson Park

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The Arne Karlsson Park
Children's playground, in the back the bunker reception building
The dog run area
In the park
The Citizens' Supply Institution , 1860 (left: Währinger Straße , right: Spitalgasse )

The Arne-Karlsson-Park has approximately 12,500 sqm one of the largest parks in the 9th district of Vienna Alsergrund . It is located at the intersection of Spitalgasse and Währinger Straße .

Surname

In the year it was opened in 1932, the green area was named Bürgerpark , subsequently called Guido Holzknecht Park after the radiologist and university professor Guido Holzknecht , whose bust is in the park. On July 10, 1947, the facility was named after the Swede Arne Karlsson (1912–1947). He was an employee of the Swedish aid organization Rädda Barnen , which distributed food to the starving Viennese population. As part of his auxiliary work, Arne Karlsson was shot dead by a Russian military post on June 11, 1947 while on a business trip. For decades the park was written differently than the person Arne-Carlsson-Park , in 2018 the nearby Volksoper held a concert for its 120th anniversary in the park written with C.

history

At the site of today's park there was the Johannes im Siechenals military hospital, founded in the Middle Ages, as well as a plague pit for around 1000 epidemic victims in 1679 . The city of Vienna was built there, designed by between 1858 and 1860 Ferdinand Fellner (1815-1871) one of the Bürgerspital funds belonging civic supply house ( Civil Supply Agency ).

As of July 18, 1904, the majority of the patients were brought to the Lainz care home , which opened on April 12, 1904 , and the demolition of (parts of) the facility began on August 2 of that year.

On July 13, 1927, the Vienna City Council decided to close the operation of the citizens' supply house (especially for sanitary reasons), and on September 12, 1927, gave the order to demolish it. In June 1928 the last remaining foster children were brought to the Lainz care home. On September 10, 1928, the objection by the Federal Monuments Office was rejected by the responsible municipal department on the grounds that the demolition of the building would not harm either cultural or artistic interests. After the complete demolition in 1929 and the (financially-related) provisional waiver by the municipality at the beginning of February 1931 to implement a residential building project found through competition (first prize: Rudolf Frass ), today's park was laid out in 1932.

In 1941 a 760 m² air raid shelter was built in the middle of the park . This underground construction consisted of 40 chambers, designed for 300 people, but it was often used by up to 700 people. Access to the underground bunker was via a park-side reception building, the walls of which are now adorned with graffiti .

After the war, the bunker served as a warehouse for the Municipal Garden Authority (MA 42), but it slowly fell into disrepair and had to be closed in 2008 due to dilapidation. The facility was renovated in 2008/10 and handed over to the Alsergrund district museum . The bunker is open to the public as part of guided tours.

Metro station

As part of the second part of the U2 / U5 line intersection expansion project, a station on the U5 line is to be built in 2025 and 2028 under the Währinger Strasse / Spitalgasse area . The detailed planning began in 2018. The station connects the tram lines 9, 33, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 to the U5 and relieves the Schottentor underground station . Around 10,000 people live and work in the catchment area of ​​the new station.

The neighboring stations along the U5 will be the Michelbeuern underground station and the Frankhplatz underground station .

Art and culture in the park

Guido Holzknecht
Elsa Brändström memorial
  • A replica of the bronze bust of the radiologist Guido Holzknecht, who died in 1931, created by Josef Heu and unveiled by Mayor Karl Seitz in the new Bürgerpark on November 6, 1932
  • A wall fountain on the wall of the air raid shelter, made in 1953 by Mario Petrucci
  • Elsa Brändström monument by the artists Hans Jaksch and Robert Ullmann , unveiled in 1965
  • The air raid shelter, known as the memory bunker, has been home to the permanent exhibition “Through the darkness and back again” since 2005.

literature

  • Michael Altmann: The Vienna Citizens Hospital. To commemorate the opening of the new citizens' care center in Alservorstadt. On the basis of several manuscripts from the Bürgerspital official director, Mr. Joseph Holzinger (...) . L (udwig) C (arl) Zamarski & C (arl) Dittmarsch , Vienna 1860. - archive.org .

Web links

Commons : Arne-Karlsson-Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arne-Karlsson-Park. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  2. ↑ https://www.volksoper.at/volksoper_wien/pressezentrum/pressemmeldung/120_Jahre_Volksoper_-_ein_Fest_im_Park.de.php
  3. ^ Severin:  Vienna Notes. Walks in the suburbs of Vienna. - IV. Thury. In:  Der Oesterreichische Brille, No. 20/1839, February 15, 1839, pp. 196-200. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / doz.
  4. ^ Chronicle of the City of Vienna. (...) Local Chronicle. (...) 1904 (...) August. (…) 2 .. In:  Wiener Kommunal-Kalender und Städtisches Jahrbuch , year 1905, (XLIII. Year), p. 714. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wkk
  5. ^ German Austria. (...) An arranged scandal before the Constitutional Court. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , No. 51/1929, (XLII. Year), February 20, 1929, p. 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  6. ↑ The old citizens in the new home. Unpleasant surprises after the move. In:  Reichspost , No. 190/1928, (XXXVth year), July 10, 1928, p. 8, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  7. ↑ Daily report. (...) The citizens' supply house is being demolished. In:  Reichspost , No. 255/1928, (XXXVth year), September 13, 1928, p. 4, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  8. ↑ The end of the first Vienna skyscraper. A park. In:  Reichspost , No. 35/1931, (XXXVIIIth year), February 4, 1931, p. 6 above. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  9. ↑ Single item 3.3.2.FC1.2642M - 9., Währinger Straße 45 / 1930. on wais.wien.gv.at, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  10. ^ Arne-Carlsson-Park. In: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 160.
  11. ^ Memorial bunker at wien.gv.at, accessed on August 3, 2014.
  12. ^ Arne-Karlsson-Park station. In: U2xU5. City of Vienna, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The Holzknecht memorial. In:  Das Kleine Blatt , No. 310/1932, (VI. Year), November 8, 1932, p. 9, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkb.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 13.2 ″  E