Wallensteinstrasse (Vienna)
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| Route Wallensteinstraße on OpenStreetMap | |
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| place | Vienna-Brigittenau |
| District | Brigittenau |
| Created | Currently named in 1869 |
| Hist. Names | Untere Quergasse, Dammstrasse, Gärtnergasse |
| Cross streets | Brigitte Lände Treustraße, Klosterneuburger road Staudingergasse, Kluckygasse, Heinzelmanngasse, Hannovergasse, Hunter Street, Wallensteinplatz, Karl-Meißl Street, Kaschlgasse, Raffaelgasse, Streffleurgasse, Hartlgasse, Causeway, Rauscherstraße, Sachsenplatz, Heister alley Nordwestbahnstraße |
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| User groups | Tram , bicycle traffic , pedestrian traffic , car traffic |
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| Street length | approx. 1000 meters |
The Wallensteinstraße is one of the main streets of 1900 constituted 20 Viennese municipality district Brigittenau . The street has been named after the Bohemian general and politician Wallenstein (1583–1634) since 1869, at that time still part of the 2nd district, Leopoldstadt . The street running west-east is located in the historic core of the district three blocks north of the historic Augarten , which is part of the 2nd district.
Location and characteristics
Wallensteinstrasse begins at the Friedensbrücke over the Danube Canal or at the Brigittenauer Lände accompanying the Danube Canal and is the extension of Alserbachstrasse from the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof in Alsergrund (9th district). It runs from southwest to east-northeast and has a slight bend at the level of Wallensteinplatz in the middle of the street.
Up to Sachsenplatz in the eastern third , the street has the character of a shopping street. After that the street will be wider and greener. On the southern side, instead of the first row of houses, there is a strip with 17 linden trees and two birch trees, on the north side there is a block with one-story buildings.
Tram line 5 (between Praterstern and Westbahnhof ) runs from the west to Rauscherstraße in Wallensteinstraße.
Line 33 (between Josefstädter Straße and Friedrich-Engels-Platz ) turns at Wallensteinplatz, coming from the west like line 5, to the north into Jägerstraße.
A tram corridor in the direction of Traisengasse is planned for the urban development area Nordwestbahnhof, which will connect to the eastern end of the street.
Wallensteinstrasse is open to traffic in both directions. While motorized individual traffic in the direction of the 2nd district used to take place through Rauscherstraße, like the tram today, this has been routed at the end of Wallensteinstraße via Nordwestbahnstraße for several years.
history
The street has been named after the general Wallenstein since 1869 and was originally called Untere Quergasse , partly also Gärtnergasse . Dammstrasse , mentioned around 1863, corresponds to today's Wallensteinstrasse.
Since the division of the district in 1900, the street has been in the 20th district, before that the area belonged to the 2nd district, which was called Werd (= island in the river).
There is a drawing from the 17th century in the Brigittenau district museum of today's Wallensteinplatz . At that time there was the intersection of Jägerstrasse with Untere Quergasse or what was then Dammstrasse. The drawing shows some simple, scattered huts with the top of St. Stephen's Cathedral in the distance.
The increased settlement of Brigittenau led to the restructuring of the streets and the disappearance of the old dam leading to the Augarten, which protected the Augarten palace and the baroque gardens from flooding.
The urban development is clearly visible on Wallensteinplatz. In the west are simple apartment buildings for workers from the Wilhelminian era, while the square on the other sides is dominated by luxury rental buildings from around 1900. At the beginning of the 1840s the Brigittenauer Eisenbahn , a horse-drawn tram , a forerunner of the Viennese tram, which ran from the Danube Canal (at the Rotenturmtor ) via Obere Donaustraße, Gaußplatz and Jägerstraße to the Coliseum entertainment establishment at 15 Zrinyigasse , stopped at Wallensteinplatz as early as the early 1840s . Around 1872 the road in the vicinity of the Northwest Station was still in the development phase. It was said that Wallensteinstrasse was still unregulated, unlit and hardly built on. At that time, however, it reached as far as the Tabor. It was not until 1876 that it was divided into Rauscherstrasse and (lower) Nordwestbahnstrasse .
The horse-drawn tram has been running through the street since 1873 and the first electrically operated tram line in Vienna since 1897 , known as Line 5 ( Westbahnhof - Praterstern ) since 1907 ; at that time it connected four terminal stations of the railway network going out from Vienna ( Westbahnhof , Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof , Nordwestbahnhof , Nordbahnhof ). Since 1928, line 31/5 (a combination of parts of lines 5 and 31), called line 33 since 1996 (today subway station Josefstädter Straße - Friedrich-Engels-Platz / Floridsdorfer Brücke ), ran over the Friedensbrücke.
Significant structures
House No. 14: Joseph Roth's house
The writer Joseph Roth , then a penniless student, lived with his mother in this house, on the corner of Klosterneuburger Strasse, from 1914 to 1916 . Both homeland Galicia was a war zone at the time.
House Wallensteinplatz No. 2 / Jägerstraße No. 38: Apothecary house
The pharmacist's house built in 1898 by the pharmacist Josef Tichatschek for St. Brigitta is the most beautifully decorated building on Wallensteinstrasse and is a listed building . The striking corner house with a domed corner bay window in the shape of the German Renaissance has a facade with four groups of putti divided by loggias and balconies . The house Zur Weltkugel on Stock-im-Eisen Platz and a house in a Paris suburb were built according to the same construction plan by the architects Anton and Josef Drexler . Most of the furnishings in the pharmacy have been preserved in their original form. The previous pharmacy, approved by the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy in 1867, was located at Brigittaplatz 8. The adjacent building, built in 1913 on the east side, adjoins the facade structure of the pharmacist's house. Until 1900, the Schimmelbusch machine factory, producer of steam rollers sold around the world, where the cistern wagons for the Kahlenbergbahn were built.
House number 56: Augartenhof
The Augartenhof, named after the Augarten only three blocks away , near the junction of Rauscherstrasse, is a residential building built in 1896 in the style of late historicism . The facade is richly structured and structured by three bay elements. In the middle section there are two allegorical figures representing trade and industry.
House no. 68–70: urban residential complex
In this municipal building, which is clearly set back from the road, opposite Sachsenplatz, from the years 1957–1959, there are two sculptures under monument protection: the natural stone sculpture Mother with Children by Rudolf Schwaiger and the bronze sculpture Gärtner by Franz Fischer .
gallery
The beginning of the street at Brigittenauer Lände
At Klosterneuburger Strasse
At Wallensteinplatz
At Raffaelgasse
At Rauscherstrasse
The end of the street at Nordwestbahnstraße
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 15.8 ″ E
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- ↑ https://www.wien.gv.at/stadtentwicklung/projekte/verkehrsplanung/strassenbahn/strassenbahn-projekte.html
- ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. quoted n. Wallensteinstrasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Roland P. Herold: Brigittenau - From the Au to the residential district. Mohl-Verlag, Vienna 1996, p. 28 f.
- ^ The stations of the Franz Josephs- and Nordwestbahn in Vienna. In: Neues Fremd-Blatt , May 30, 1872, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Roland P. Herold: Brigittenau - From the Au to the residential district. Mohl-Verlag, Vienna 1996, p. 28 f.
- ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. quoted n. Augartenhof in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ wienerwohnen.at: Wallensteinstrasse 68-72. City of Vienna / Wiener Wohnen, May 16, 2016, accessed on January 3, 2019 .