Zeiserl car
The Zeiserlwagen , also known as the Zeiselwagen , was an early means of passenger transport in Vienna from the 18th and early 19th centuries for excursions in the suburbs of Vienna.
The Viennese Zeiserlwagen are not yet to be regarded as public transport because they did not have a visible timetable. It was a peasant type of cart, which was made usable for the transport of people by means of cross-seated boards and at most simply roofed over (with cane covers) to protect against the weather.
Zeiserl cars were only allowed to run outside the line wall . There were conflicts of interest with the country coaches and the stagecoachers , but the Zeiserl wagons prevailed because of their low price. The Zeiserl wagons had to be equipped with a license that was renewed every year . They were eventually replaced by the horse-drawn “Stellwagen” (also known as “society cars”), which - as the first regular Viennese means of transport with specific routes and stops - were in use from 1815.
In a hiking guide from the Biedermeier period , the work " Vienna's Environs for Twenty Hours in Circumferences " by Adolf Schmidl from 1835, a special company car is described that left Hütteldorf :
- This is where the company car departs, and the entrepreneur came up with the idea of shortening the long and boring journey for his customers with a trumpet set that he had installed in one of the cars. One can imagine what a sensation this 'musical society car' caused in musical Vienna! By the way, the fun can only start outside the line.
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Zeiselwagen. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 692 ( digitized , entry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna). and p. 332f. (Article "Stellwagen").
- Christian Röttinger: From Stellwagen to Silberpfeil In: wien aktuell magazin, Issue V 1984, pp. 17–19.
- Johann Werfring: Ride the Zeiserl car for fun Article in the “Wiener Zeitung” from May 2, 2013, supplement “ProgrammPunkte”, p. 7.
- Ernst Zobel: From Zeiserlwagen to U-Bahn , Vienna 1973.
Web links
- “From the chair carrier to the subway”. Data on the history of public urban transport in Vienna Contribution to the history of urban transport in Vienna on tram.at.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Display board in the Mariahilf District Museum , viewed on May 11, 2012.
- ^ Adolf Schmidl: Vienna's surroundings for twenty hours in a circle. Described by Adolf Schmidl after his own hikes. Printed and published by Carl Gerold, Vienna 1835, pp. 135–136.