Forest and meadow belts
The forest and meadow belt approved by the Vienna City Council on May 24, 1905 was designed to secure the green space in the west of Vienna .
history
The Wilhelminian era and the enormous urban growth of the second half of the 19th century resulted in a high density of buildings and a lack of green spaces in large areas of the city. As early as the 1870s, Vienna had the first ideas to create a protection zone, especially with regard to the particularly scenic areas in northwestern Vienna with its foothills of the Vienna Woods . They should be kept free from further development, and therefore the population used as a recreation room, but above all, because of prevailing in Vienna westerly winds for a healthy ventilation of the particularly green poor tenement neighborhood in the area of Vienna Beltway care.
In 1904, Mayor Karl Lueger proclaimed a decree stating that he wanted " to permanently safeguard the health of our town and to maintain the beautiful landscape, [...] a forest and meadow belt on the periphery [...] for set all times ... ". This decree was implemented in 1905 by a unanimous resolution of the municipal council. For the legally protected forest and meadow belt, a separate category of land use (protected area forest and meadow belt: Sww) with extensive construction prohibition was defined, which still exists today.
The engineer from the municipal building authority Heinrich Goldemund was in charge of the development of the plans for the forest and meadow belt and the associated Viennese Höhenstraße .
After the First World War , “wild settlements” reduced parts of the forest and meadow belt. The population stagnation of Vienna until the late 1980s made it easier to preserve the green area. From 1955 there were even targeted expansions, such as the reforestation of the Laaer forest on Laaer Berg and, at the end of the 1960s, the acquisition of the Mautner forest on Bisamberg and the Dehnepark in Hütteldorf . There was even an ambitious conception of “closing” the forest and meadow belt in the east of the city. This could in a certain sense be realized through the construction ban on Vienna's Danube Island . A complete Viennese green belt around Vienna, however, appears to be difficult to achieve in the light of the recent strong growth in Vienna from around the turn of the millennium. But there are projects such as the Norbert-Scheed-Wald , where such a "gap closure" is sought in the northeast of the city.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Csendes , Ferdinand Opll : Vienna- from 1790 to the present Vienna 2006, p. 582
- ↑ https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/wald/erendung/wienerwald/norbert-scheed-wald.html
literature
- Friedrich Fischer: The green space policy of Vienna until the end of the First World War , Vienna 1973