Windmill (Vienna)

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Windmill
coat of arms map
Coat of arms from windmill

Windmühle (also: Windmühlgrund ) was an independent municipality until 1850 and is now part of Vienna's 6th district, Mariahilf .

location

The windmill base is divided into the upper windmill and the lower windmill . The Obere Windmühle is a narrow area in the west of the Mariahilf district, which borders Mariahilfer Straße in the north . This area is enclosed by Gumpendorf along the streets of Stumpergasse , Liniengasse and Webgasse . The Untere Windmühle borders the Mariahilf district to the west and the Laimgrube along the Mariahilfer Straße, Königsklostergasse and Gumpendorfer Straße streets .

history

Upper and lower windmill around 1830

The Theobaldkloster had been located in the area of ​​the Viennese suburb of Laimgrube since 1354 and was destroyed during the first Turkish siege in 1529. The Imperial Herald Johann Fracolin received this deserted property from Emperor Ferdinand I in 1562 to build windmills there. Fracolin built a single windmill, but otherwise only rented houses. From this settlement the village of Windmühle developed, which in 1620 became the property of the Viennese magistrate.

The Upper Windmill was only founded in 1780. The most prominent resident was the composer Joseph Haydn , who bought a house in Kleine Steingasse (today: Haydngasse ) in 1793 and lived there from 1797 until his death in 1809. Today the Haydn House is a branch of the Wien Museum .

In 1850 the Windmühlgrund was incorporated together with the suburbs of Mariahilf, Magdalenengrund , Gumpendorf and Laimgrube as the 5th district of Mariahilf. In 1861 Mariahilf became the 6th district due to the division of Wiedens , and a year later it lost the parts beyond Mariahilfer Strasse to the 7th district Neubau .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien , Vol. 5

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '  N , 16 ° 22'  E