Belt (Vienna)

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Along with the Ring and the so-called Zweierlinie (also freight road), the Gürtel is the third main traffic artery in Vienna in a ring segment around the city center . It is the busiest state road in Austria and one of the most frequented in Europe. It forms the main part of the B221 . It begins in the 3rd district and continues in a U-shape along the respective outer borders of inner-city districts 4 to 9.

In the official street directory, the belt is divided into several streets, but their names are in all cases belt (usually in connection with the name of the neighboring suburb). Corresponding to the course of the road, there are also the terms west belt and south belt , which are mainly found in texts on traffic planning and information.

It emerged in the late 19th century from the Linienwall , a fortification around the Viennese suburbs.

history

For military reasons, the line wall was provided with a construction prohibited zone: 23 m inside the wall and 190 m outside. Emperor Franz Joseph I lifted the construction ban in 1858 and gave the order to establish a route for a belt road. On June 28, 1861, he approved this route with a total street width of 76 m (today at least three lanes per direction) on the condition that the possibility of building a railway on the street must be provided. The first private building permits around the belt were issued in 1863.

The first section on the western belt was probably completed around 1873. In 1880 the passage of the belt over the Wien River was not yet marked as a project in the city map, the southern belt, where the line wall was largely in the way, was only planned. The name Belt Street, which was initially chosen, was soon replaced by naming the sections after adjacent historical locations. (The naming dates below are the official ones; the names were often not used officially before.)

In 1874, Favoriten , located outside the line wall and previously part of the Wieden and Margaretens , was constituted as the new 10th district. On January 1, 1892, the other suburbs of the city outside the wall followed. The tax border that the Wall had formed up to then moved to the new external borders of Vienna. As a result, the city of Vienna rose to become the third largest on the continent (after Paris and Berlin): The population of the new urban area had increased from 843,000 to 1,342,000, i.e. by 60%, since 1870. The population of the suburbs alone had more than doubled from 242,000 to 552,000. On July 18, 1892, the Imperial Council , the Parliament of Old Austria, passed the Imperial Law on Vienna's Transport Systems, which contained the construction of the city ​​railway and the regulation of the Vienna River , which was important for the completion of the belt . The construction of the belt light railway began in February 1893 in Michelbeuern .

City map 1892: The then still existing line wall was in the way of the belt extension in the area of Michelbeuern and Gumpendorf as well as in large parts of the southern belt.
City map 1900: Expansion and regulation of the Wiedner and Landstraßer belts were not yet completed. The projected continuation of the belt between Sankt Marxer Friedhof and Zentralviehmarkt in the direction of the Danube Canal was realized by 1978 as part of the south- east bypass .

At the same time, the general regulation competition ran in 1892/1893, in which designs for the traffic structure of the entire city were asked for. Otto Wagner , who was awarded one of the two first prizes, took a decisive position in his competition entry on the status quo and the desirable appearance of the belt. He wrote that the belt was "in aesthetic terms, since it lacks every atom of artistic disposition, to be regarded as a great mistake." As far as the light rail system was concerned, he demanded that the high-rise buildings of the railway “should be referred to the aesthetician, the architect, for design” be.

After the dismantling of the line wall , which was officially started on March 5, 1894, unofficially earlier, and which mostly ran along the center of the Gürtelstrasse, the street was considerably widened or re-routed. In 1894 Otto Wagner received an extensive design contract for the light rail; his pronounced aesthetic demands had apparently been accepted by the decision-makers of the kk government. The tram stations he designed, which are still essential accents of the western belt, were created exactly where the gates, the so-called lines, had been in the line wall, therefore neither in Michelbeuern nor on Thaliastrasse, where the subway stations are today. The widening was carried out in sections, so that the definitive road cross-section was partially not available until 1900, and in the easternmost section of the southern belt much later. The obelisk designed by Hans Scherpe on the new building belt, which recorded the completion of the gardens between the carriageways of the belt, was unveiled in 1906.

In 1898 the steam-powered belt light rail was opened. From 1923 it was electrified by the City of Vienna and since 1925 it has been offered as the Wiener Elektro Stadtbahn in the fare network with the tram . Since 1989 the belt line has been run as the U6 underground line .

The view that the Gürtel was conceived as the second boulevard next to the Ringstrasse in Vienna was not supported by the sources. However, after criticism of the very dense, speculative development on both sides of the western belt around 1900, it was emphasized that there were five rows of trees on each belt. In the interwar period , during the period of “ Red Vienna ”, the southern Margaret Belt in particular was equipped with representative people's houses, known as “ community buildings ”. The conception of an alternative second splendid boulevard dates from this time. One spoke of the "ring road of the proletariat"

Until after the Second World War, the Gürtel remained a popular residential area because of its green views and its wide perspectives.

In the second half of the 20th century, however, the enormous traffic (six lanes) led to a drastic decline in the quality of living in the adjacent areas, and Vienna's brothel mile developed on the western sections of the belt . This intensification of the volume of traffic was initially seen as progress by urban planning. In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, an elevated city motorway was planned in the area of ​​the belt (according to plans by Prof. Josef Dorfwirth from the Vienna University of Technology ) . The Vienna Alwegbahn plans (from 1958) also mainly related to the area of ​​the belt. The construction of the Belt Bridge between 1962 and 1964 marked the beginning of the realization of a belt motorway .

In the fall of 1967, the Arbeiter-Zeitung announced, in addition to the start of construction on the Danube Island, for the spring of 1968 the general decision to build a belt highway as a medium-term project in the Federal Roads Act. This was supposed to connect the north autobahn with the north-east autobahn (now part of the south- east bypass between the Landstraße and Hirschstetten junction ) over the entire belt in an “elevated position” (on stilts) . The construction package also included a bridge in the area of ​​Matzleinsdorfer Platz from the belt motorway to be built across the southern runway to Triester Straße .

Against the construction of this “A20”, protests were raised in the media and by citizens' groups (e.g. in the daily newspaper “Kurier” , May 20, 1972). Mayor Felix Slavik thereupon proclaimed in September 1972 a sharp departure from the concept of the city motorway (people only spoke of “high-speed roads”). Today the Landstrasse branch of the south-east bypass still reminds of these plans. On city maps until the early 1990s, this section was referred to as the "belt highway".

Plans announced at the beginning of the 1980s for extensive tunnels for individual traffic in the belt area remained in the discussion stage (the large number of required entrances and exits proved to be the main problem).

Western belt

The sections of the street are shown here starting from the north in a counter-clockwise direction.

The western belt (Döblinger Gürtel to Sechshauser or Gumpendorfer Gürtel) is characterized by the U6 underground line , the former belt line of the Vienna light rail . The U6 runs - depending on the level of the surrounding area - partly in an incision, partly on a viaduct , always exactly in the middle of the street. The stations and viaducts of the Stadtbahn were designed by Otto Wagner and built between 1893 and 1898. On the remainder of the central strip of the western belt, almost all of the green areas were built by the city administration in 1898–1906. In contrast to large parts of the southern belt, the western belt is built almost entirely on both sides. Since July 1, 1905, the district boundaries have been running almost exclusively on the "western border of the tram".

Dobling belt

The Döblinger Gürtel (19th district), named 1903, is one of the shortest sections of the street and runs from the Gürtelbrücke to the junction 9th, Nussdorfer Straße / 19th, Döblinger Hauptstraße (tram lines 37 and 38). In this section there are outer and inner belts (this one there is narrow like a side street), on both sides of the underground viaduct, one-way lanes to the south. The northbound traffic coming from the inner Währinger Gürtel is directed here through Heiligenstädter Straße.

Währinger belt

The Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater from 1898, today Volksoper Vienna
Outer Währinger Gürtel in Michelbeuern to the south, secured on the left by the typical tram railing

The Währinger Gürtel (9th and 18th district), named in 1894, is the section from the intersection 9th, Nussdorfer Straße / 19th, Döblinger Hauptstraße, to the intersection 9th, Lazarettgasse / 17./18., Jörgerstraße (tram line 43). The section at Michelbeuern could only be built after the line wall had been removed. From the northern end of the section to the confluence with line 42 at Schulgasse, tram operating tracks run on the outer belt and serve to connect lines 37, 38, 40, 41 and 42 with the Remise. (Until 1989, line 8 in the direction of 12., Eichenstrasse ran on these tracks, along the outer belt to 15., Ullmannstraße.)

  • At the northern end of the section is the Nussdorfer Straße subway station at the 9/19 district border .
  • At the address 18., Währinger Gürtel 131 (corner of Marsanogasse), on the outer belt, you will find the Währing tram parking facility (“Remise”) .
  • At no. 97-99, also in the 18th district, was from 1873 to 1945, the Rothschild Hospital , since 1942 SS hospital, which demolished after bomb damage and short re-use and from 1960 to 1963 by the by Karl Schwanzer designed Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut (WIFI) was replaced.
  • At the intersection of 9th / 18th, Währinger Straße, and at the Währinger Straße-Volksoper subway station in the 9th district is the Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater, which was opened in 1898 and is now the Vienna Volksoper . In March 2010, the City of Vienna announced that it would make the Währinger Straße / Gürtel intersection area more attractive and, in particular, improve the pedestrian connections crossing the Gürtel.
  • The music bar “Q [: kju]” was set up near the Währinger Straße-Volksoper underground station as part of the revitalization of the belt in the city railway arches 142–144.
  • At No. 88 on the inner belt next to the underground viaduct is the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel , built by Otto Wagner from 1895–1898 , a replacement for the previously demolished chapel at the gate of the line wall along Währinger Straße.
  • 9., Währinger Gürtel 18-20 is the address of the large General Hospital of the City of Vienna / University Clinics , which was built in the 1970s. The dominant predecessor building on the hill had been a lonely asylum for a long time on the "Brünnlfeld" since 1852, which later became the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology (" Klinik Hoff "). For emergency vehicles, there is an underground access to the hospital from the outer belt near the Volksoper.
  • The hospital is accessed by the Michelbeuern underground station, newly built in 1987 , with pedestrian walkways across the Gürtel to the 9th and 18th districts. Between the station and the outer belt is the Michelbeuern depot of Wiener Linien for trains of the U6. From there track connection to tram line 42 at 18., Kreuzgasse.

Hernals belt

Alser Straße underground station on the Hernalser Gürtel, inner belt, looking north

The Hernalser Gürtel (8th, 9th and 17th district), named in 1904, stretches from the intersection 9th, Lazarettgasse / 17./18., Jörgerstraße, to the crossing 8th, Uhlplatz / 16., Friedmanngasse.

Larkfield Belt

The Lerchenfelder Gürtel (7th, 8th and 16th district), named in 1883, is the section from the crossing 8., Uhlplatz / 16., Friedmanngasse, to the crossing 7., Burggasse / 15./16., Gablenzgasse ( B223).

  • At the Josefstädter Straße underground station (see above), the “rhiz” bar was set up in the viaduct (Stadtbahnbögen 37/38) as part of the “Gürtel plus” project and is considered a meeting place for electronic music lovers.
  • At the intersection 7./8., Lerchenfelder Straße / 16., Thaliastraße (tram line 46), you will find the Thaliastraße subway station , which was built in 1980 . There was no station here before. In March 2010, the City of Vienna announced that it would make the crossing area more attractive and, in particular, improve the pedestrian connections crossing the Gürtel.
  • At the subway station Thaliastraße you will find two more music venues in the arches of the light rail: in arches 29/30 the British music presenting “Chelsea” and in arches 26/27 the “Loop”.
  • For the section between 16., Herbststrasse, and 7., Burggasse, in March 2010 the City of Vienna built an “open and recreational space” above the subway route based on a design by Vito Acconci (who developed on behalf of Vienna was) designated as "conceivable" from 2012 with the use of EU funds .

New building belt

Burggasse-Stadthalle station on the U6 line, looking north
View from the main library to the south on Urban-Loritz-Platz

The new building belt (7th and 15th district), named 1864/1869, stretches from the intersection 7th, Burggasse / 15./16., Gablenzgasse, to 6./7./15., Mariahilfer Straße (tram lines 6, 9, 18 on part of the section). (The border between the 7th and 15th districts ran one block east of the belt until 1905.)

  • At the northern end of the section is the historic entrance to the Burggasse-Stadthalle underground station , which opened in 1898 as the Burggasse tram station. From the station there is a glass-covered pedestrian walkway over the outer belt to “Lugner City” , one of the largest shopping centers in Austria.
  • To the south of it, the new Vienna main library was completed in 2003 above the underground cut in the middle of the belt (7th district). Below it is the second entrance to the underground station mentioned.
  • Tram lines 6 and 18 have their northern terminus on Urban-Loritz-Platz, also to the south, which Silja Tillner provided with striking flying roofs as part of the EU belt project in the 1990s. The "6er" drives south on the Gürtel to Matzleinsdorfer Platz, the "18er" serves the entire southern belt. This is necessary because the plans drawn up from around 1870 to run a branch of the light rail to the southern belt have not been implemented.
  • At the intersection with 15., Felberstrasse / 7., Stollgasse, on the median is the Hesser monument, unveiled in 1909, in memory of the Lower Austrian infantry regiment No. 49, Field Marshal Baron von Heß , whose soldiers successfully battled Napoleon in 1809 in Schwarzlackenau near Vienna fought.
  • The first Westbahnhof was completed in 1858 (railway operation) / 1859 (building). Its reception building was significantly further removed from the belt that was built later than the current station, which was commissioned in 1951 and which was restored until 2011 and framed by new buildings, whose forecourt has been called Europaplatz since June 21, 1958. Therefore, the light rail system, which opened in 1898, made a turn towards the train station. The new Westbahnhof subway station opened in 1991 (eastern terminus of tram lines 52 and then 58, since 2017: 60; southern terminus of line 9), however, like all other stations on the western belt, was built on the broad median. In addition to the U6 that crosses the Gürtel, the U3 that crosses the Gürtel has been operating here since 1993.

Mariahilfer belt

The Mariahilfer Gürtel (6th and 15th district), named 1864/1869, stretches from the junction 6th / 7th, Mariahilfer Straße (at the Westbahnhof ) to the junction 6th, Gumpendorfer Straße / 15., Sechshauser Straße, and becomes Use tram lines 6 and 18 on its own track on the inner belt. The section originally extended in the south to the Wien River, in 1889/1894 the southern part was spun off as the Sechshauser Belt. The inner belt did not yet exist in the southern part.

Sechshauser belt

The Sechshauser belt, named in 1894 (former suburb, part of the 15th district), is the section of the outer belt from the junction 15., Sechshauser Straße, to 15., Linke Wienzeile, where the Kaiser-Joseph-Brücke over the Wien river led to the 12th district; it was replaced with the Vienna river regulation from 1895-1900 by a vault that extended eastward to the Margaretengürtel urban railway station, which was opened in 1899. Here through traffic ran in both directions on the Sechshauser belt until 1967, as the inner belt between Gumpendorfer Straße and Linker Wienzeile did not yet exist (the access road was part of Mollardgasse) and there was no Vienna river bridge as an extension of the Margareten belt.

Otto Wagner's Stadtbahnbrücke, today U6, from the Sechshauser Gürtel over the Wien River towards Meidling

Gumpendorfer belt

The Gumpendorfer Gürtel, named in 1965 (formerly suburb, part of the 6th district), is the section of the inner belt parallel to the Sechshauser Gürtel and extends from 6th, Gumpendorfer Straße, to 6th, Linke Wienzeile. The vehicles coming from the Margaretengürtel drive here the Margaretengürtelbrücke, which was completed in 1967, over the Wien River (east of the Margaretengürtel subway station ) and the U4 and a piece of Linke Wienzeile to the west, before the Gumpendorfer Gürtel branches off to the north. Before this section of the inner belt was built, traffic to the north and the tram ran along the outer, the Sechshauser belt.

In order to be able to build the Gumpendorfer Gürtel, the Franz-Schwarz-Park at Linke Wienzeile (still drawn in full size on the 1961 city map) had to be greatly reduced. The houses in Mollardgasse, which swung northwards at that time, had to be demolished, which in the interwar period south of Gumpendorfer Strasse was still close to the Stadtbahn viaduct. On this newest belt section, tram lines 6 and 18 run on their own track.

South belt

The extra-wide median between Margaretengürtel (right) and Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel (left) is reminiscent of the undeveloped urban railway line from the western belt to the southern railway, alternatively the combined tram and tram line 18G ran here from 1925 to 1945 .

The part of the south belt running in north-south direction corresponds in its layout to the west belt. Its median (formerly known as the Gürtelpark) looks extremely spacious, however, because the originally planned viaduct for a light rail line (it would have branched off from today's U6 south of the Gumpendorfer Strasse station) fell victim to savings. Parks, ball game cages and children's playgrounds were built on the open spaces.

The part that runs in the west-east direction is characterized by the fact that conventional rows of houses are only located on the central, northern edge of the street; On the southern edge, from 12th, Eichenstrasse, to 4th, Südtiroler Platz, there are systems of the Südbahn in an elevated position. (Between Südtiroler Platz and Arsenalstraße, building sites for a new house front instead of the southern railway tracks have been built since 2010 in the so-called Quartier Belvedere .) In sections, warehouses and smaller businesses have been settled between the railway and the street. From the junction at 12th, Eichenstrasse, to 5th, Matzleinsdorfer Platz, there is a parking lot between the lanes. To the east of Matzleinsdorfer Platz, the median is limited to a concrete threshold or a double barrier line.

Gaudenzdorf belt

The Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel, named 1894/1910 (former suburb, part of the 12th district) is the outer belt from the Wien River to the 12th, Eichenstrasse. Previously, like the inner belt in this section, it was called Margaret Belt. In the northernmost part, from the Wien River to around 12, Hofbauergasse, the street did not run in the current right-hand bend around 1912, but diagonally from the Kaiser-Joseph-Brücke to its further course. In 1952, the easternmost part of the Dunklergasse (12th district), which opens from the west, was included in the numbering of the Gaudenzdorf belt.

  • The Haydnpark , which borders the Gürtel in the southern section of the street at 12., Flurschützstraße, was once the Hundsturm cemetery. Here was Joseph Haydn buried before his remains by Eisenstadt were transferred.

Margaret Belt

The first municipal housing on the Gürtel: the Metzleinstaler Hof, Margaretengürtel 90–98
Margaretengürtel near Matzleinsdorfer Platz to the west

Margaretengürtel , named from 1881 (after the 5th district), is the name of the inner belt from the Wien river to the south to 12, Eichenstraße (tram lines 6 and 18), and both lanes from there to the east ( since 1969 in the lower position : lines 6 , 18, 62, Lokalbahn Wien – Baden ) via 5th, Matzleinsdorfer Platz, and 5th, Kliebergasse (underground junction of lines 1 and 62 and the local train), up to 4th / 5th, Blechturmgasse. The continuous expansion of the Margaretengürtel and Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel was delayed by parts of the line wall that were in the way. In 1881 the part from 5th, Schönbrunner Strasse, to 5th, Arbeitergasse, was named that way. The belt has only been the district boundary between the 5th (Margareten) and the 12th district ( Meidling ) since 1907 , since the Neumargareten, located west of the belt, was only transferred from the 5th to the 12th district at that time. In 1906 the name was extended to the adjoining part up to Matzleinsdorfer Platz and in 1908 it was extended to the border with the 4th district (this part was called 1906-1908 like the Wiedner Gürtel to the east).

  • In the Bruno-Kreisky-Park bordering the Gürtel , the former St.-Johann-Park between 5th, right Wienzeile, and 5th, Schönbrunner Straße, there is the only so-called line chapel that has been preserved from the time of the Wiener Linienwall is; it was built in 1759 in the baroque style. Such chapels, like the tax-collecting line offices, were present at all 18 gates, the so-called lines, until the 1890s. In March 2010, the City of Vienna announced that it would connect Bruno-Kreisky-Park with the green spaces between Wienfluss and the northernmost Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel by a footbridge for pedestrians and cyclists across the Margaretengürtel.
  • At No. 90–98 you can see the Metzleinstaler Hof , a community building with 141 apartments, built in 1923/1924 by Hubert Gessner as the first community residential building on the Gürtel. In its vicinity there are other similar buildings that gave this belt section in Red Vienna the propaganda name “Ringstrasse des Proletariat” from 1919–1933. In front of the courtyard is the ramp via which trains from lines 6, 18 and 62 (coming from 12., Flurschützstraße,) enter the "UStrab" tunnel , which has been heading east to 4., Südtiroler Platz, since 1969. use.
  • 5., Matzleinsdorfer Platz (named 1906): The belt carriageways cross below the 5th, Reinprechtsdorfer Straße and Wiedner Hauptstraße / 10., Triester Straße (B17). Also in the lower position: tram station; Line 6 leaves the Gürtel in a south-easterly direction; Line 1, which runs parallel to Triester Straße, goes from here to the Gürtel in the tunnel to 5., Kliebergasse, where Line 62 also turns towards the city center. Line 18 continues to follow the course of the belt. In high position: S-Bahn station. The two-lane belt underpass was put into operation in 1951 and was the first such structure in Vienna. In 1969, it was expanded to four lanes and the tram tunnel was put into operation.

Wiedner belt

Wiedner Gürtel near Karl-Popper-Str., Looking west

Wiedner Gürtel, named in 1882 (after the 4th district), previously partially Vordere Südbahnstraße, is the name of the section from 4th / 5th, Blechturmgasse, to 3rd / 4th, Prinz-Eugen-Straße / Arsenalstraße. 1906–1908 was called the section from 5th, Matzleinsdorfer Platz, to 4th / 5th, Blechturmgasse, also Wiedner Gürtel and was then included in the Margaretengürtel.

  • 4., Südtiroler Platz (since 1927, previously since 1898 Favoritenplatz): Here, the Gürtel roadways and line 18 have been in a low position since 1959 under the crossing Favoritenstraße (4th and 10th district) and the Laxenburger Straße branching off to the south (10th district) guided. The extension of the tram tunnel to the west was put into operation in 1969. Also at a low level: S-Bahn (since 1962) and U-Bahn (underground) station (since 1978) . The new main station , partially opened on December 9, 2012, connects (south) east to the square. Line O, coming from the 10th district, turns eastward into the Gürtel.
  • From Südtiroler Platz to Arsenalstraße, the business and office district called Quartier Belvedere is being built along the Wiedner Gürtels on the former railway site vacated in 2010 .
  • 3rd / 10th, Arsenalstrasse: At the eastern end of the Wiedner Gürtel there were two terminal stations in the 10th district until 1955, the Ostbahnhof and the Südbahnhof, with Ghegaplatz as a common forecourt. Then the space with the hall of the 3rd South Station , which also accommodated the platform tracks of the Eastern Railway, was built. In 2010 this station was demolished; An office building for the Erste Group banking group was built on the corner of Arsenalstrasse .

Highway Belt

The Landstraßer Gürtel (named, date unknown, after the 3rd district) is the easternmost part of the Gürtelstraße, from the intersection 3rd / 4th, Prinz-Eugen-Straße / 3rd / 10th, Arsenalstraße (until 2009 Wiener Südbahnhof ), to the end of the belt, 3rd, Wildgansplatz. The immediate continuation towards the southeast is the motorway access to the Landstrasse junction of the “ Südosttangente ” (A23) urban motorway . In the north-east direction, at Wildgansplatz, Landstraßer Hauptstraße , which belongs to the B221, branches off into which line 18 turns. The Landstraßer Gürtel continues east of the Wildgansplatz, which interrupts the road for car traffic, as a side street and finally flows into Grasbergergasse.

The Landstraßer Gürtel was designed later than other sections of the street; the line wall (which partly ran outside of today's belt!) was in the way, the pressure on urban development was less than elsewhere: the bridge over today's S-Bahn main line at Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse was not built until 1910/1911; The section of the belt to the east of the bridge has not yet been specified on the 1912 city map. In 2011 there was still no construction east of the railway bridge north of the belt, but street names such as Bert-Brecht-Platz adjoining the belt have already been determined.

  • The garden of the Belvedere Palace , one of Vienna's main attractions, borders directly on the Landstraßer Gürtel on Prinz-Eugen-Straße.
The Maria-Josefa-Park, since 1920 Swiss Garden, around 1900, seen from the Gürtel; in the background the arsenal
  • Opposite, south of the belt, is the Schweizergarten , so named in 1920 , opened in 1905/1906 as Maria-Josefa-Park. At the corner of Arsenalstrasse exit to Quartier Belvedere station (S-Bahn; until December 2012 called Südbahnhof S).
  • In the park is the Belvedere 21 , Museum for Contemporary Art, set up in 2011 in the former 20er Haus, the then Museum of the 20th Century, which opened in 1962. Until 2001 it was a branch of the Museum of Modern Art, today it is a branch of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere .
  • At the intersection with 3. Fasangasse / Schweizer-Garten-Straße, line O turns north into Fasangasse, line 18 continues on the Gürtel.
  • The arsenal of the imperial army was built behind the Schweizergarten until 1856 ( Museum of Military History ), which the Landstraßer Gürtel approaches at the confluence with Ghegastraße.

A projected extension of today's Wildgansplatz, the end of the belt, parallel to the curved Hofmannsthalgasse (3rd district) to Leberstraße (Aspangbahn) was drawn in city plans around 1960 for the Landstraßer Gürtel. The "community buildings" south of Hofmannsthalgasse take up the curve of the planned extension, which would have translated the Aspangbahn north of the Sankt Marxer Friedhof and would then have run roughly in the location of the southeast bypass towards the Danube Canal .

Current developments

From the 1990s onwards, an urban renewal project called “Belt Plus”, which was funded by the EU until 1999, attempted to eliminate the tendency to slump on the belt and to set new urbanist accents; several of these detailed projects were designed by “belt architect” Silja Tillner. In the course of this, numerous restaurants settled in a total of 218 tram arches under the U6 subway line , which among other things benefit from the heavy traffic noise, because as a result, their own loud music is hardly set as noise limits. The new “belt scene” received positive comments from the media and consumers.

The aim of the urban renewal project, which also includes the construction of the new Vienna main library (design: Ernst Mayr) above the Burggasse-Stadthalle underground station and the redesign of the neighboring Urban-Loritz-Platz as part of the belt by Silja Tillner, is to make the area attractive for pedestrians in the long term and thus improve the quality of life.

In the course of the project, the following data on the belt area were collected:

  • Proportion of foreigners in the resident population: 34% (city average 18%)
  • Structures before 1919: 65% (37%)
  • Apartments without toilet: 41% (20%)
  • Green space per inhabitant: 1 m² (23 m²)

Observations between 1995 and 2005 showed that traffic on the western belt has decreased by 10% to 15% in certain sections. The reasons for this are probably the parking space management in the adjacent inner districts and the expansion of the U6 .

Around 2000 the Margaretengürtel was slightly rebuilt and the roadway was moved away from the development.

Parking space management was extended in 2012 to the parts of the 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th districts bordering the Gürtel. From the Hernalser Gürtel in the north to the Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel in the south, short-term parking zones (with the exception of residents) now also border the Gürtel in the west.

Traffic development 1995 - 2010 in figures

Development of the average number of vehicles per day in the period from 1995 to 2010, total traffic in both directions, taken from the road traffic census Vienna 2010:

Counting point 1995 2000 2005 2010
Belt Bridge 64601 vehicles 65508 vehicles 69747 vehicles 68516 Kfz
Währinger belt 57495 vehicles 61 818 vehicles 61,960 vehicles 57,866 vehicles
Hernals belt 70222 Kfz 66553 vehicles 70446 vehicle 69645 Kfz
Mariahilfer belt 80482 vehicles 76467 vehicles 82598 Kfz 75389 vehicles
Margaret Belt 68095 vehicles 66703 vehicles 68656 Kfz 67,913 vehicles

literature

Web links

Commons : Gürtel (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , pp. 33, 36.
  2. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 36.
  3. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 30.
  4. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 39.
  5. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 43 f.
  6. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 50
  7. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 32.
  8. ↑ See Peter Csendes, Ferdinand Opll: Vienna: From 1790 to the present , Vienna 2006, p. 386 note that the Reumannhof on Margaretengürtel “together with Metzleinstaler-, Herwegh-, Julius-Popp- and Matteottihof (all: Vienna 5 ) was intended as the core of a so-called »ring road of the proletariat« "
  9. ^ The belt becomes the Autobahn , Arbeiterzeitung , Vienna, October 6, 1967, accessed on October 11, 2012.
  10. ↑ Announcement of the kk governor, in: Landes-Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt für die Archduchtum Österreich unter der Enns, Vienna, No. 104/1905
  11. ↑ Street name. In:  Wiener Zeitung , September 23, 1903, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  12. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 65.
  13. ↑ Silja Tillner on the website of the planning department of the City of Vienna
  14. ↑ See, for example, the title page of the social democratic women's magazine " Die Unzufriedene", No. 35/1930
  15. ↑ Urban planning for the Aspang grounds ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  16. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 64.
  17. ↑ Christa Veigl (Ed.): Stadtraum Gürtel Wien. Nature, culture, politics. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-154-5 , p. 33.
  18. ↑ Municipal Authority of the City of Vienna Municipal Department 18: Road Traffic Census Vienna 2010. Evaluation of municipal roads A + B. Final report. Vienna, 23 August 2011, p. 155.

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