Sievering

Sievering is now a district of Vienna in the 19th district of Döbling and is made up of the municipalities of Unter- and Obersievering, which were independent until 1892. Unter- and Obersievering belong to the 89 Viennese cadastral communities today .

Sievering
coat of arms	map

geography

Weinhauerstrasse in Obersievering

Sievering developed along the Arbesbach (Erbsenbach). The later division of the place was based on the course of the brook. Obersievering is located on the upper course of the stream between Schenkenberg and Hackenberg , where the Sieveringen cemetery is also located, while Untersievering on the lower course south of the Meiselberg . Originally there was also the Mitterhofen desert between the two Sieverings, which forms the oldest part of the village. However, the group of houses around the original chapel merged into the two places. The Chlaintzing desert, located on the southwestern slope of the Hackenberg, probably only existed until the 14th century. The lack of water is likely to have brought the residents to the Neustift am Walde complex . Originally there were manorial farms around which the winegrowers settled as subjects of the landlords in both districts . Probably in the 12th century villages were built around the Meierhöfe. In 1330 Ober- and Under Sufferingen are listed separately for the first time (deed of foundation of the Sieveringen Church). Which of the two was created earlier is unclear. The Sieveringen Church was on the border between the two places. As the villages grew over the centuries, both rows of houses grew together to form a long street village . Today's cadastral communities of Untersievering and Obersievering cover an area of ​​433.04 hectares . Under the name Sievering there is also a counting district of official statistics consisting of two counting districts, the borderline of which, however, is not identical to that of the cadastral communities.

history

Origin of name

Sieveringen parish church

Sievering was first mentioned in 1114 as Sufringen. Later the name finally became Sievering via Suueringan and Sivring. The place name is a real -ing name, meaning for the people who belong to a man with the name Suver (o) / Sufr . In the Middle Ages, however, the name was probably related to St. Severin ( Severin von Noricum , † 482), who is said to have evangelized in the area in the early Middle Ages. The coat of arms of the community shows the saint and the Sieveringen parish church is consecrated to him.

Sievering up to modern times

In Sievering there was a large quarry in Roman times , the stones of which were used for the Vindobona military camp . There was certainly a larger workers' settlement there. In 1897 a mithra was uncovered in Sieveringer Straße 132 , which had been erected by the 10th Roman Legion. Today the altar is in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna . The inhabitants in the Middle Ages were farmers who mainly produced for their own needs. Wine was grown for sale . 1134 handed over to Leopold III. the place to Klosterneuburg Abbey . In the 14th century the village was separated after the Arbesbach. This was first recorded in 1330. In the 15th century the property was returned to the sovereign. After changing owners, the two places finally came to the Vienna Court Chamber . A chapel dedicated to St. Andrew is documented as early as 1330. The building was raised to the Sieveringen parish church as early as 1348. The first pastor was Jacob de Medlaer from the world priesthood. It was not until 1510 that Klosterneuburg Abbey took over the parish.

Sievering until the 19th century

Sieveringerstraße / corner of Fröschlgasse 1915

Like the surrounding towns, Sievering suffered greatly from the Turkish wars , which hampered development. In 1634 the two towns changed hands again. Obersievering came to the Kamaldolese from Kahlenberg , Untersievering to the Gaming monastery . When the plague came to Vienna in 1713 , Sievering suffered particularly badly from the disease. In Ober-Sievering 30 of 33 houses were contaminated, in Unter-Sievering 32 of 34. A total of 267 people died of the plague in Sievering. As a result, the two places developed differently. Because of the poor transport connections and the cooler, damp weather, Obersievering developed much worse than Untersievering. In 1767 Obersievering still consisted of 41 houses and 26 farmsteads, Untersievering only had 5 farmsteads. Nevertheless, Untersievering had already overtaken the town above in 1819. Untersievering housed 467 residents in 56 houses, 377 people lived in 52 houses in Obersievering. After 1789 private individuals built water pipes and ponds "in the sky", planted fruit trees, farmed sheep and built a park and a dairy . In 1832, the timber merchant Josef Müller finally reunited the two places in one hand and later sold them to Anton Edler von Wirth, who had also bought Oberdöbling in 1824 .

Tram terminus in Sievering, 1969

When the place was incorporated into Vienna in 1892 together with Unterdöbling , Oberdöbling , Heiligenstadt , Nussdorf , Grinzing , Josefsdorf and the Kahlenbergerdorf , Obersievering had 626 inhabitants, Untersievering 1996 inhabitants. Obersievering consisted of 78 houses, Untersievering of 214 houses. Around 1900 the lower Sieveringer Straße was built with large apartment buildings. In 1902 the now discontinued tram line 39 to Sievering was built. Gradually the surrounding hills began to be built on. Nevertheless, the two old town centers of Unter- and Obersievering are still clearly recognizable today.

economy

Restaurant zur Agnes 1910 (Obersievering)

Both parts of Sievering had large vineyards at the beginning of the 19th century . In the somewhat smaller Untersievering half of the usable area was covered by vineyards , a third was arable land. In Obersievering there were still 28 percent of vineyards, followed by 20 percent forest and around 15 percent each of meadows and fields. The Sieveringen quarry, which had existed since Roman times and belonged to the Viennese magistrate, was important. He supplied paving stones and grindstones until 1921. Unlike the nearby Grinzing or Neustift am Walde, Sievering was for a long time hardly valued as a summer resort . In addition, the grapes developed more slowly in the cooler Bachtal than on the surrounding hills. Until well into the 19th century, Sievering was also poorly connected to the surrounding area by roads. Gradually, however, tradespeople also settled here and in 1837 Sievering was connected to Vienna for the first time by a parking wagon line. In 1875 the construction of Untersievering began, the gradual arching of the Arbesbach protected against flooding. An important company was a steam sawmill founded in 1897 by the master carpenter Wenzl Hartl at Sieveringer Straße 2. Together with the building trade, the company grew rapidly, but was relocated to Lower Austria in 1948 . Row houses and the Franz Josef Hotel were built on the property. For the most operating Sieverings but the car factory, founded in Weinberggasse 1904 Gräf & Stift , the cars , trucks and buses produced. After production had been relocated to the Liesing plant in stages , the property was built with residential buildings.

Attractions

The monument to the goose Lilli

• Sieveringen parish church
• Agnesbründl (formerly also: Lotteriebrünnl and Jungfernbrünnl ), a legendary fountain of the Middle Ages, geographically already in Lower Austria, but historically part of Sievering.
• Monument to the goose Lilli , as a symbol for the village calm and cosiness in Sievering. The goose Lilli spent her life on the rails of the tram line 39, which ended in Sievering until August 30, 1970, from where the driver always had to carry her away to enable her to continue.
• Three-ball Schachinger
• Plague column Agnesgasse, see Sieveringen parish church
• Sieveringen quarry

Personalities

• Ferdinand von Rezniček (1868–1909), Austrian painter, draftsman and illustrator
• Anton Karas (1906–1985), Austrian zither player , composer ( film music for The Third Man ) and innkeeper

literature

• Walter Hirschberg : The Agnesbrünnl. Folklore about a spring in the Vienna Woods . Publishing bookstore Natur und Technik, Vienna 1949.
• Walter Hirschberg: Agnesbrünnl . In: -: Matreier Talks Walter Hirschberg 85 years. Interdisciplinary cultural research . Jugend und Volk, Vienna ( inter alia ) 1989, ISBN 3-224-10716-2 , pp. 29-61.
• Franz Mazanec: Grinzing and Sievering: the villages under the sky . Sutton, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-007-X .
• Godehard Schwarz: Döbling. Ten cultural and historical walks through Vienna's 19th district. Unterdöbling, Oberdöbling, the cottage district, Grinzing, Sievering, Heiligenstadt, Nussdorf, Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf, Cobenzl and Kahlenberg, Leopoldsberg and Kahlenbergerdorf. Association of Wiener Volksbildung, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900799-56-3 .

Web links

Commons : Sievering  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Sievering wine village
• District coat of arms of Döbling

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] . Information site from Sievering. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
2. ↑ At the source on the Jägerwiese. Place of ancient folk tradition. In:  Wiener Latest Nachrichten , No. 5589/1941 (17th volume), October 3, 1941, p. 3, top left. (Online at ANNO ). ,
   Roland Girtler : Forays of the vagabond cultural scientist . Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77630-7 , p. 157 f.
3. ↑ Page with a picture of the real goose Lilli.

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '  N , 16 ° 19'  E