Wilhelmsdorf (Vienna)
Wilhelmsdorf was an independent suburb of Vienna , which is now part of Vienna's 12th district of Meidling . It was located in the area of today's streets Wilhelmstrasse, Aßmayergasse, Dörfelstrasse and Eichenstrasse .
history
The village of Wilhelmsdorf was originally part of the Untermeidling community , where, spatially separated from it, some houses were first built around 1770 near the brick ponds located there. Ignaz Ritter von Neuwall had opened brickworks here and therefore two houses were built for the workers there. Settlement increased in the first half of the 19th century and people now spoke of Dörfel (today's Dörfelstraße still reminds of this place name), Neu-Meidling or, as before, Bei den Ziegelteichen .
In the 1840s, the residents believed they were big enough to be able to form their own community. In 1846 this district was separated from Untermeidling and the monastery of Klosterneuburg gave their consent to the formation of an independent community. This was named "Wilhelmsdorf" after the provost at the time, Wilhelm Sedlaczek, similar to what happened in Gaudenzdorf , which was separated from Untermeidling and which also received the name of the provost at the time.
Wilhelmsdorf then comprised 46 houses. The watchmaker Wenzel Rauch was chosen as its first local judge. He was followed by the shoemaker Josef Ofner. The parish hall was located at today's Wilhelmstrasse 24.
The new congregation soon proved to be financially too weak. In 1848 the district office refused to recognize it as a separate tax municipality and in 1850 it was finally merged with Untermeidling again. Together with this and a few other communities, the 12th Viennese district Meidling was formed in 1890.
Today Wilhelmsdorf is a census district of the official statistics consisting of eight census districts, the borderline of which, however, is not identical to that of the formerly independent municipality. In addition, the names Wilhelmsdorfer Park and Wilhelmstraße as well as Dörfelstraße remind of the former place.
Buildings in Wilhelmsdorf
- Meidlinger Friedhof : The first two cemeteries in Meidling were near the later Wilhelmsdorf. The oldest Meidlinger cemetery from 1784 to 1807 was on the site of today's residential complexes Vierthalergasse 11 and Rauchgasse 15-17. The second Meidlinger cemetery was located at today's Zeleborgasse, Sechtergasse and Pachmüllergasse from 1807 to 1860.
- Wilhelmsdorfer Chapel: It is located in Rauchgasse 5 and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to John of Nepomuk , a saint who was preferably worshiped in areas near the water. The free-standing chapel was consecrated on October 4, 1827 by the landlord, Klosterneuburg Stiftspropst Gaudentius Dunkler . It originally had a small roof turret with a bell. In 1847, however, it was integrated into a house built there, which completely changed its appearance. Damaged by bombs in 1944, the Biedermeier chapel, which has a statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk owns, then renovated.
In the area of the former Wilhelmsdorf were or are:
- Monastery church of the Sisters of the Cross for the Assumption of Mary in Murlingengasse 71
- Old Viennese Schnaps Museum in Wilhelmstrasse 19
- Philadelphiatheater , later Philadelphiakino, formerly in Wilhelmstrasse 64–68
- Former coach house of the Vienna transport company in Aßmayergasse 23–35, demolished in 1987
Two reliefs on residential buildings (Eichenstrasse 50–52 and Rauchgasse 15–17) are reminiscent of the legend of the Wassermann von Wilhelmsdorf , who is said to have been up to mischief in the brick ponds there.
literature
- Michael Hahn: The district of Sechshaus: a description of the localities Braunhirschen, Fünfhaus, Gaudenzdorf, Ober- u. Untermeidling with Wilhelmsdorf, then Reindorf, Rustendorf and Sechshaus in historical, topographical, statistical, commercial and industrial relationships . Ullrich, Vienna 1853
- Christine Klusacek / Kurt Stimmer: Meidling. From the Wien River to the Wienerberg . Vienna 1992
- Ludwig Varga: The Philadelphiakino. Sheets of the Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2002, issue 55.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 37 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 12 ″ E