Weißgerberlände
| Weißgerberlände | |
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| The Weißgerberlände, on the right the entrance to the Kunst Haus Wien | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Wien-Landstrasse (3rd district) |
| District | Weißgerber |
| Connecting roads | Dampfschiffstrasse, Erdberger Lände |
| Cross streets | Untere Viaduktgasse, Krieglergasse, Custozzagasse, Hetzgasse, Kegelgasse, Paracelsusgasse, Rasumofskygasse / Rotundenbrücke |
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| User groups | Car traffic , bicycle traffic , pedestrian traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | about 750 m |
The Weißgerberlände is a street on the right bank of the Danube Canal in Vienna in the Weißgerber district of the 3rd district, Landstrasse . This got its name from the white tanners who used to work in this area . As a border , a strip bank is referred to, which is suitable for application of ships.
Location and naming
The road, so named in 1862, joins the steamship road on the connecting railway bridge, which has been in operation since 1859, between the north and south stations (today the main express train line ) and continues beyond the Rotunda bridge , until 1919 Sophienbrücke, in the Erdberger Lände. It is used as a one-way downriver; traffic in the opposite direction is on the left bank of the Danube Canal, in the 2nd district , on Schüttelstraße.
On the river side, the Weißgerberlände is accompanied by the Friedensreich Hundertwasser Promenade, named in 2002. Around 1830 the name Armen Sünder Gasse was used for the unpaved road on the bank, which once led to the place of execution, and the name An der Gänseweide was used for the piece from today's Kegelgasse to the then Sophienbrücke ; the goose pasture was the place of execution from the 14th to the 18th century. The bank of the Danube Canal was unobstructed at the time and delimited the back of the house gardens of the houses on Untere Gärtnergasse , today's Untere Weißgerberstraße.
Hundertwasser buildings
The street became famous for the Kunst Haus Wien at No. 14 , an exhibition house designed by the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser from a former factory building for his own works and those of others. The building, whose main entrance for pedestrians is in the parallel Untere Weißgerberstrasse , faces the area where visitors arrive by bus, and a green courtyard. Across the other side of the road there is a DDSG tourist ship landing stage . Three blocks downriver and one inland is on Kegelgasse, at the corner of Löwengasse, the Hundertwasserhaus , an urban residential building from the 1980s, which the artist designed sensationally with the help of an architect.
Other buildings
The Weißgerberlände is only built on the western edge of the road due to its location on the bank. According to the Viennese house number system introduced in 1862, the houses only have straight house numbers, which were assigned in ascending order downstream (or from the part of the land closest to the center): from No. 2 (corner of Untere Viaduktgasse) to No. 62 (corner of Rasumofskygasse, where the stop of the Tram line 1). It is about six blocks, separated by five branching streets. In the city map of the 1920s, near the Rotunda Bridge, there is an urban electricity pool, which was built according to Czeike in 1904/1905, when the sewage was no longer channeled into the Danube Canal.
The existing historical development from around 1870 to 1910 consists largely of houses with upper-class rental apartments and shows that at that time it was a very good residential area in which such apartments were in line with the market. The location on the water and the proximity of the Prater contributed to this, as did the short distance from the city center.
Between Krieglergasse and Rotundenbrücke there is a closed ensemble of late historical upper-class apartment buildings with secessionist facade elements, which are calculated to the scenic effect of the Danube Canal and which should have found their counterpart in the Pratercottage opposite , but this was only partially realized. There are also some houses on the Erdberger Lände downstream that can be added here, albeit not in the form of a closed ensemble. This ensemble also includes a large part of the uneven side of Untere Weißgerberstraße , the canal-near parts of Custozzagasse, Hetzgasse and Kegelgasse, almost the entire Paracelsusgasse and also the Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz, which was planned a little earlier (1906–1910) .
The houses were mostly designed by Julius Müller and the brothers Anton and Josef Drexler . The ensemble is only interrupted by a civil servants' house built in 1924/1925 at No. 26 with sharp-edged bay windows and sparse floral decor and two municipal buildings from the interwar period: No. 24 by Alexander Graf from 1930 and No. 30–36 by Friedrich Schlossberg from the Years 1931/1932.
Individual buildings
- No. 18 (Krieglergasse 17–19, Untere Weißgerberstraße 15): The building was designed by Hans Schimitzek . The house, built in the local style, is structured by flat bay windows and several roof gables.
- No. 22 was built in 1912 by Emanuel Ehrlich . The flat structure is accentuated by balconies and sparingly structured under the influence of the Wiener Werkstätte .
- No. 38, from 1911, comes from Julius Müller. The facade has two mighty gabled oriels, between which lattice balconies are stretched. Above the base zone there are reliefs of unclear content, perhaps a representation of the Turkish wars under Prince Eugene .
- Nos. 40 and 42 come from the Drexler brothers and with their rounded corners (with no. 42 with a tower-like elevation) form a kind of portal for the Hetzgasse in between. The upper floors show an elaborate stucco decoration in the form of vases, masks and garlands. In the courtyard of no. 42 there is a mulberry tree from the 18th century - a remnant of silkworm breeding at that time, which is listed as a natural monument by the city of Vienna.
- No. 44–46 comes from Julis Müller. The facade is accentuated by four mighty oriels, and lattice balconies are inserted between the central oriels. The top floor is crowned by a gable with a studio window. The decor is particularly rich on the upper floors and depicts girls and boys under canopies, as well as flower vases and fruit garlands.
- No. 50 comes from the Drexler brothers. The house has flat, polygonal bay windows into which loggia-like balconies are clamped. The foyer and staircase are paneled with wood and decorated with stucco; the stained glass is from the construction period.
- No. 52 comes from the Drexler brothers and, together with No. 54, forms a representative entrance to Paracelsusgasse. The corner is rounded off by flat arched oriels, the house has two studio gables. The facade is structured with pilasters decorated with fig leaf ornaments. The portal is decorated with a blind balustrade and attached vases. The lattice balconies are rhythmized by stone vases.
- No. 54 was built in 1907 by Johann Eustacchio . The strongly protruding roof is supported on consoles, the window openings are partly straight, partly rounded off with segments. The facade decoration depicts flower garlands and tendrils.
- No. 56 was built in 1905 by Carl Hörmann. The flat, elongated facade is influenced by Secessionism, the second and third floors are structured with pilasters. The name of the client - Eduard Schinzel - can be read on the attic .
No. 18 (Krieglergasse 17-19)
No. 22
No. 38
No. 42
No. 44-46
No. 50
No. 52
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traffic
From the middle of the 19th century onwards, several plans were made to build port facilities in the Danube Canal for shipping traffic on the Danube ; the expansion remained piecemeal because there was no money. In addition, the Viennese Danube regulation from the 1870s onwards made it possible to place extensive areas on the Danube river where there was enough space for adjoining railway systems. The port project in the Danube Canal was no longer pursued from the late 1920s.
Shipping traffic on the Danube Canal is therefore essentially limited to city tours and excursion traffic; the Weißgerberlände is rarely used as land. Since 2006, the “ Twin City Liner ” catamarans have been traveling along the Weißgerberlände three to five times a day in each direction from April to October: They connect the Viennese and Bratislava city centers in high-speed traffic.
From 1914 to 1945, the Viennese city line of the Pressburger Bahn , an electric local train that connected the city centers of Vienna and Pressburg, ran on the Weißgerberlände . At the Rotunda Bridge, the Pressburger Bahn crossed the tram tracks.
In the course of general motorization, the road was expanded into a multi-lane main thoroughfare in the 1970s. It is part of the road called Lände or B 227 - Donaukanal Straße , which connects the north bridge (feeder A 22 ), along the Danube Canal and past the city center, with the east motorway A4 towards Vienna Airport , Lake Neusiedl , Pressburg and Budapest . The speed limit of 50 km / h is monitored by radar .
The eastern end at Rasumofskygasse
At Paracelsus-gasse, bus parking lot of the Hundertwasser-house
At the Hetzgasse
The western end at Viaduktgasse
The parallel track of the Weißgerberlände as B227
Literary processing
The Viennese author Heimito von Doderer had in his 1963 work The Waterfalls of Slunj . Novel No. 7, first part, the future authorized signatory Josef Chwostik moved into an apartment at Weißgerberlände in 1879: The bright new houses stretched along the empty street, at regular intervals they also showed large, three-part windows. ... While Chwostik ... was standing in front of the tall, white-lacquered door ... And here, she said, pulling open one Roleau a little, you can look over to the Prater because there is no house opposite. (Pp. 69–71) Chwostik… looked across the river and at the green domes of the Prater trees. (P. 97) There was a cable ferry across the river here ... (p. 213; the ferry at Hetzgasse still existed in the 1960s.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ 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. 184 ff
- ↑ Description page of the building at Wiener Wohnen
- ↑ Description page of the building at Wiener Wohnen
- ↑ Description page on wien.gv.at
- ^ Biederstein-Verlag, Munich 1963; quoted from the edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, Vienna o. J.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 36.6 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 41.4" E