Wiental motorway
The Wiental motorway was a project discussed from the 1950s to the 1970s for a Vienna city motorway or express road over the Vienna River .
history
The canalization of the Wien River and the construction of the Stadtbahn by Otto Wagner already envisaged a large vaulting of the river bed and a boulevard over it from the center of Vienna to Schönbrunn . This splendid boulevard, which is still reminiscent of a few luxury rental houses in the area of the Naschmarkt , did not materialize as a result of the First World War and the impoverishment and stagnation of Vienna that followed. As early as 1937, however, Alfred Fetzmann advocated the idea of a road in the Vienna river bed. From the 1950s onwards, the project of an urban motorway in the Vienna river area was mainly championed by motorization-friendly media, for example by the newspapers Die Presse (June 13, 1954: “across Vienna at 80 kilometers per hour”) or Neues Österreich (in a city planning series from December 16-23, 1958). Among other things, there were plans for a cloverleaf-shaped link with the Gaudenzdorf belt .
Within Vienna's urban planning, however, there was resistance to the expansion of city motorways, especially in the core area of Vienna ( New Austria of February 18, 1961); preference was given to one-way systems and the green wave (the latter was successfully introduced in Vienna from 1962). Cost reasons were also decisive for this: City Councilor for Construction Leopold Thaller had already stated in 1958 with regard to the Vienna west entrance to the center that of the three possible variants street in the Vienna river bed, street above the Vienna river bed and one-way streets to the left and right of the Vienna river bed, the last-named was the cheapest. On this basis, the western entrance to Vienna was ultimately successfully organized, and Mayor Felix Slavik officially rejected the Wiental motorway and the Danube Canal motorway in 1972. The Wiental Autobahn remained undeveloped Vienna .
In the 1970s and 1980s, plans were made to extend and expand Flötzersteig Strasse as a second city entrance to the Gürtel, branching off from the western entrance at an early stage .
literature
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades . 3. Edition. LIT, Vienna Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X .
- Bernd Kreuzer: The city in the name of the automobile . In: Christian Rapp (Hrsg.): Spurwechsel. Vienna is learning to drive . Brandstätter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902510-84-6 , (exhibition catalog: Technisches Museum, Vienna, October 12, 2006 - February 28, 2007), p. 61ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung March 20, 1958 p. 1 ( Memento from March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
