Lower Weißgerberstrasse
| Lower Weißgerberstrasse | |
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| Untere Weißgerberstrasse at the level of Krieglergasse. In front the house at Krieglergasse 17-19 (lower Weißgerberstraße 15), to the left of it the Kunst Haus Wien (Untere Weißgerberstraße 13) | |
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| place | Wien-Landstrasse (3rd district) |
| District | Weißgerber |
| Hist. Names | (Lower) Gärtnergasse (until 1862) |
| Connecting roads | Obere Weißgerberstrasse |
| Cross streets | Untere Viaduktgasse, Krieglergasse, Custozzagasse, Hetzgasse, blossomsgasse, Kegelgasse, Paracelsusgasse, Rasumofskygasse |
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| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrian traffic |
The Lower Weißgerberstraße is a street in the 3rd Vienna district highway . It was named in 1862 to preserve the name of the former suburb Weißgerber , it forms the extension of the former main street (today Obere Weißgerberstraße ).
In the 18th century, the street appears as Gärtnergasse and is largely still undeveloped. On the district map of Carl Graf Vasquez from around 1830, there are also few buildings and mainly gardens to be seen; it is called Untere Gärtnergasse .
Location and characteristics
The road is separated from the Oberen Weißgerberstraße in the north-west by the connecting line (today the mainline express train line ) and runs in an almost straight line to the south-east, where it joins the Rasumofskygasse, shortly before it merges into the Rotunda Bridge . It runs parallel to the Weißgerberlände in the east and approaches the Löwengasse , which also runs to the southeast in the west , without meeting it.
In the first block, the street is strongly characterized by buildings from the post-war period, with the (albeit formative) exception of the KunstHaus . From Krieglergasse, the buildings on the even side are predominantly strictly historical with a few post-war buildings, but the uneven side up to Paracelsusgasse makes up the urban development value of the street, as it is part of an almost complete ensemble of late-historical houses.
Art House Vienna
The Kunst Haus Wien, which extends to the Weißgerberlände, is a museum. Established around 1890 as a Thonet furniture factory , the entire building complex was redesigned in 1990/91 by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in cooperation with Peter Pelikan and decorated in a corresponding style with colored ceramics and mosaics. The inclusion of plants (“tree tenants”) in the architecture and the unevenness of the floors, which corresponds to Hundertwasser's rejection of the “straight line”, is also programmatic. Hundertwasser had his studio apartment with a wooded roof terrace on the top floor.
In addition to a permanent exhibition devoted to the works of Hundertwasser, there are changing special exhibitions by various artists, mainly from the field of photography, on several floors.
Late historical ensemble
Between Krieglergasse and Paracelsusgasse, the buildings on the odd side belong to an almost complete ensemble of late historical buildings with mostly Secessionist-influenced décor, which were built from 1910 onwards. This ensemble also includes the corresponding section on the Weißgerberlände and buildings in the cross streets connecting the two streets. Almost all of these buildings were built at the same time in 1910/11. The nearby Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz , which was built a little earlier (1906–1911), has very similar stylistic features .
- No. 15 (Krieglergasse 17-19, Weißgerberlände 18) was built in 1911 by Hans Schimitzek . The house, built in the local style, is structured by flat bay windows and several roof gables.
- No. 17 (Krieglergasse 16) was built in 1914 by Karl Haybäck . The monumental Doric portal is influenced by neoclassicism.
- The next house no. 19 was also made by Haybäck in 1914. The monumental facade has flat, polygonal bay windows and a triangular gable over the three central axes, which are also emphasized by giant pilasters. The portal is framed by a pilaster and has a curved gable. In the hall there is a portrait relief of Emperor Franz Joseph and Emperor Wilhelm , above an allegorical scene: Austria and Hungaria shake hands with Germania , including the year 1915. Opposite is a relief with the coats of arms of the Central Powers and the Ottoman Empire .
- No. 21 (Custozzagasse 11) was made by Anton Schwertmann in 1914. The three main floors are arranged by giant pilasters with garland cartouches, the ornamentation is influenced by the Wiener Werkstätte.
- No. 37 is from 1911 by Julius Müller . The middle axis and the two side axes are emphasized by flat gables and window supra positions.
- No. 39 (Hetzgasse 45) was built in 1911 by Anton Schwertmann. The building is characterized by a round corner solution and flat bay windows crowned with lattice balconies. A stained glass in the staircase shows the Rotunda Bridge (then Sophienbrücke ) in 1832.
- No. 41 (Hetzgasse 42) was built in 1910 by Alois Lefler and Anton Schwertmann. The ornamentation is baroque-secessionist, a striking element is the tower-like roof structure with a column lantern at the rounded corner. In this house there is an exhibition room for the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
- Nos. 43 and 45 ( Bubi-Hof and Mädi-Hof ) were built by Erwin Raimann in 1911/12. The houses are characterized by flat bay windows, lattice balconies and garland decorations.
- No. 47 (Kegelgasse 41) was built in 1911 by Alois Lefler. The building is kept flat and has a corner attic. This is followed by the house at Kegelgasse 43, built by the brothers Anton and Josef Drexler in the same year. The side axes are raised like a gable, the middle axes have giant pilasters on the upper floors. The ornamentation consists of cartouches, garlands and masks.
- No. 49 (Kegelgasse 42) dates from 1911 by the Drexler brothers. The facades are kept flat, the decorative elements are baroque.
Four buildings from this period are on the straight side:
- The Löwengarage, built in 1912 (No. 38, Kegelgasse 37, Blumgasse 14–16) now serves as the souvenir shop center of the Hundertwasser House and was converted and decorated accordingly in the 1980s.
- Paracelsusgasse 7 (No. 46) was built in 1910 by Richard Stransky. The building is flat with baroque-secessionist ornamentation.
- Paracelsusgasse 8 (No. 44) comes from the Drexler brothers. The large gabled buildings are a striking element.
- No. 48 is from 1911 by Gustav Holaubek .
Portal from No. 19
No. 37
No. 39
No. 41
No. 44
Bubi-Hof (left) and Mädi-Hof
# 48
Portal from No. 49
Municipal housing
There are four community buildings on Untere Weißgerberstrasse, three of them from the period after 1945.
- No. 4 was built in 1986–1988 by Peter Koban. The facade is accentuated by colored ceramic tiles in shades of brown and blue.
- No. 18 was built between 1969 and 1971. In front of it is the natural stone composition by Franz Xaver Hauser .
- No. 23–35 (Weißgerberlände 30–36) was built in 1930/31 by Friedrich Schlossberg . The business premises now serve as a warehouse for the KunstHaus and were decorated accordingly by Hundertwasser.
- No. 53–59 was built in 1950/51 by Alfons Hetmanek . At the corner of the building there is a two-part mosaic allotment garden life by Robert Aigner - towards Paracelsusgasse with a spring motif, towards Untere Weißgerbstraße with an autumn motif.
Ceramic plates on No. 4
Number 18, sculpture in the foreground
No. 23–35: Hundertwasser camp and bay window from the interwar period
Mosaics on nos. 53–59
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio II-IX & XX, Vienna 1993, Anton Schroll & Co., p. 134
- ↑ Reproduction of Vasquez 'plan on the Wikimedia Commons, the suburb of Weißgerber is highlighted
- ↑ http://www.kunsthauswien.com/de/uber-uns/kunst-haus-wien/geschichte-gestaltung/
- ^ Géza Hajós & Eckart Vancsa: The art monuments of Vienna. The secular buildings of the 3rd, 4th and 5th district, Austrian Art Topography Volume XLIV, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1980, p. 187 ff
- ^ Page of the memorial room
- ^ Friedrich Achleitner : Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century, Volume III / 1, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna, 1990, p. 133
- ↑ Description page at Wiener Wohnen
- ↑ Description page of the building at Wiener Wohnen
- ↑ Description page of the building at Wiener Wohnen
- ↑ Description page of the building at Wiener Wohnen
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 37.6 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 37.1 ″ E