Wienzeile
The Wienzeile consists of two streets in Vienna that were built along its banks as part of the regulation of the Wien River between 1899 and 1905 :
- north, on the left bank of the river, the Linke Wienzeile ,
- south, on the right bank of the river, the right Wienzeile .
The two streets begin on the center side at the Getreidemarkt / Friedrichstraße / Operngasse intersection on the edge of the Karlsplatz traffic junction (district border 1/4/6). The Linke Wienzeile leads to the Schönbrunn Palace Bridge (district border 14/15), the direct main entrance to Schönbrunn Palace , the former imperial summer residence. The right Wienzeile is a little shorter and ends at the Grünbergstraße / Schönbrunner Brücke / Winckelmannstraße (district border 12/13). The Linke Wienzeile leads through districts 6 and 15 , the rights through districts 4 , 5 and 12 .
The Wien river runs between the two streets ( vaulted at the intersection with the Gürtel and in the area closest to the center) with the U4 subway line immediately to the south , which was opened here in 1898/1899 as the Viennese light rail line. The dense underground traffic (six stations) means that other public means of transport (bus lines) can only be found in a few short sections.
Before the regulation of the Vienna River, the right was called Wienzeile in the 4th district Wienstraße , in the 5th district Flussgasse , An der Wien and Wienstraße . Linke Wienzeile in the 6th district was first called Am Wienufer , also Ufergasse , later Magdalenenstrasse and Wienstrasse .
The Linke Wienzeile is architecturally strongly influenced by Otto Wagner's Art Nouveau buildings in the area of the Naschmarkt . Since 1873 Otto Wagner championed the ultimately unrealized concept of a splendid boulevard over the vaulted Vienna River between Karlsplatz and Schönbrunn.
Linke Wienzeile is now part of Vienna's western exit towards Linz and Salzburg. It continues in the 14th district in Hadikgasse . The right Wienzeile was expanded less consistently; only parts of it belong to the west entrance of Vienna, which begins in the 13th district with the Hietzinger Kai .
See also
literature
- Karin Wilhelm, Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg (ed.): Formations of the city, Camillo custom read on. Birkhäuser Verlag et al., Basel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7152-8 , especially S 250f. ( Bauwelt-Fundamente 132 urban development theory ).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 37 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 16 ″ E