Wolfersberg (Vienna)
| Wolfersberg | ||
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| height | 322 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Vienna , Austria | |
| Mountains | Vienna Woods | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 12 '39 " N , 16 ° 14' 47" E | |
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The Wolfersberg is a 322 m high mountain in the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna .
geography
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The mountain is located in the Hütteldorf district , its western foothills reach into the Hadersdorf-Weidlingau district . It rises between the valleys of the Wien River and the Halterbach . The bottleneck between Wolfersberg and the mountains of the Lainzer Tiergarten is a cold air barrier for the Mariabrunn district , where it can be a few degrees colder at night than in other parts of the city.
A census district of official statistics has been named after Wolfersberg since 1961 , in which 6448 people lived in 2011. The predominantly undeveloped summit of the mountain is part of the Penzing landscape protection area .
The Wolfersberg belongs to the Vienna Woods Mountains . An anticline eruption zone of the lower Wienerwald sandstones runs from the Satzberg . The eastern slope of the Wolfersberg is formed by layers of inoceramen .
history
Wolfersberg takes its name from the wolves that once lived in the Wien river floodplains . Emperor Ferdinand I bought the Auhof estate in 1560 , which included parts of Wolfersberg and the neighboring Bierhäuselberg . In the area was the wolf garden where the animals were collected and hunted by the imperial hunting parties. This area was abandoned in the middle of the 17th century. Archduke Franz Karl killed the last wolf in the Hütteldorfer district in 1846.
With the incorporation of Hütteldorf in 1890, the Wolfersberg came largely to Vienna. During the First World War , in 1916, fortifications with trenches were built on the mountain to defend the city. In the winter after the war the Wolfersberg was completely cut down because there was no firewood in Vienna. The Society for Internal Colonization Settlers Association, founded in 1919, began building the mountain in 1920, opposing the plan to reforest it. The first house was occupied in 1921, the first road paved in 1922. With financial support from the Quakers , represented by Aline Atherton-Smith , 60 houses were ultimately built. From 1929 a permanent allotment garden followed. In the 1930s there were initially two competing settlers' associations, until they were dissolved in 1938 with the "Anschluss" of Austria .
The Wolfersberg settlement association was re-established after the Second World War . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Josef am Wolfersberg was built in 1949 according to plans by Ladislaus Hruska . It replaced an emergency church from the 1930s. The Mondweg elementary school designed by the architect Friedrich Schlossberg and the Wolfersberg water tower at the summit were completed in 1950. Several larger residential complexes were built from the 1950s to the 1970s.
literature
- Elisabeth Gutmann: Wolfersberg - developments on the western outskirts of Vienna . Thesis. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2006.
- Josef Schneider: Wolfersberg. The development of an allotment garden . Association of Austrian Land Reformers, Vienna 1932.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Wolfersberg. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 674 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Ingeborg Auer, Reinhard Böhm: Weather and climate in Vienna. Diversity in the smallest of spaces . In: Roland Berger, Friedrich Ehrendorfer (Ed.): Ecosystem Vienna. The natural history of a city . Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 3-205-77420-5 , p. 95 .
- ↑ Historical local dictionary. Statistical documentation on population and settlement history: Vienna. Database: August 31, 2016. (PDF) Austrian Academy of Sciences, p. 21 , accessed on November 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Penzing - Vienna Woods Protected Landscape Area (Part A). In: wien.gv.at. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
- ^ Franz Xaver Schaffer: Geology of Vienna . tape 1 . Lechner, Vienna 1904, p. 51 .
- ↑ Martin Vollmost: History of the settlements on the Wolfersberg and the Bierhäuselberg. Archdiocese of Vienna, accessed December 19, 2019 .