Donau City
The Danube City is a new district in the 22nd district of Vienna, Danube City. It is located right next to the Empire Bridge and the city center next district on the left bank of the Danube.
- 2.1 Wiener development company for the Danube Region
- 2.2 concept
- 2.3 Forward
History
Floods and Bretteldorf
The Danube is inextricably linked to the history of Vienna, but was for centuries outside the city and acted as a transport, as well as impediment to traffic. The numerous floods of the unregulated flow did not allow appear advised to build important buildings right on the water, in the flat Danube floodplains or on the islands formed by the stream. Bridges were mostly made of wood and did not have to be rare rebuilt after floods.
The Danube regulation from 1870 to 1875 made the area of the Danube City by the newly created Hubertusdamm, the hinterland demarcated parallel to the new main stream from the floodplain, flood-proof. The current main stream was named for standing water, the Old Danube. On the site but there were an oxbow lake, the south of the Wagramerstraße today existing Kaiser water, and wetlands that were not initially asked as building land. Parts of the area served between the two world wars and later as manure storage site, other parts were colonized with allotments. The poor build quality of the built in times of emergency huts led to the name Bretteldorf.
Initial ignition Garden Show 1964
The realization of the terrain and the holding of the Vienna International Garden Show in 1964 on a portion of the area were the spark for all other urban investments. Erected in 1962 Danube Tower has become the symbol of the area; the garden show was mostly preserved until today as the Danube Park. For the strip of land along the Wagramerstraße, the main arterial road of Vienna to the northeast, urban development was planned without time already concrete projects would be submitted to.
Vienna International Centre, New Empire Bridge, New Danube
This changed when Austria 1967, the United Nations (UN ) is an official residence center in Vienna promised: It should be built between the reduced Danube Park and the Wagramerstraße. In 1979, the Vienna International Centre (VIC ), part of the UNO-City opened. ( The buildings of the VIC in size gave a new, large urban scale to their surroundings before, which until then had outskirts character. )
1976 collapsed the old imperial bridge and had to be reconstructed: it was in 1980, released by U - Bahn tracks in the basement, for traffic. Since 1982, the U -Bahn line U1 runs on the Danube, at the site of the present-day Danube City and at the United Nations headquarters over to Kagran, the center of the 22 district.
1972-1988, the Danube was regulated again in the Vienna area to eliminate remaining flood hazards. In addition to the area of the modern Danube City ensued would become parallel to the main stream, the New Danube, a mostly stagnant water that was suitable for recreational use, and the Danube river island between New Danube and main stream, which not installed according to the decision of the city council, but also for recreational use should be available.
Convention center, no Expo 1995
1987 was opened as the second part of the UNO-City next to the Vienna International Centre ( VIC), financed by state and city administrative Congress Austria Center Vienna (ACV ). Plans a late eighties contemplated EXPO 1995 Vienna -Budapest with the northern bank of the Danube in Vienna shortlisted for the exhibition grounds were rejected by the majority of the population of Vienna at a referendum in May 1991.
Beginning of the nineties, therefore, began the detailed planning for a new, multifunctional district on the size of free area ( which was originally separated from the larger Danube Park ) between VIC, ACV and Hubertusdamm or New Danube.
The area on the original plans
- Images of Donau City
Danube and Neue Donau City with Copa Cagrana in the foreground.
UNO City with the Austria Center Vienna in front and a (visible) part of the Vienna International Centre in the background.
In the Danube City: left behind the Hochhaus Neue Donau by Harry Seidler
Development of the Danube City
Wiener development company for the Danube Region
In 1991 from the Expo AG Wiener development company for the Danube Region AG ( WED ) out. At her largest Austrian banks and insurance companies are involved:
- Bank Austria
- Erste Bank
- Raiffeisen Bank
- BAWAG P.S.K.
- Invest Bank AG Volksbank Group
- UNIQA
- Vienna Insurance Group, formerly Wiener Städtische
The WED owns the 17.4 -acre area and is responsible for the overall development. In 1993, she began with the establishment of the infrastructure for the next use. The construction of the so-called Danube plate, the Überplattung the Donauuferautobahn, the area could be enlarged. The foundation stone for the first building, the Andromeda Tower, was laid in 1995.
Overall, here about 1.7 million cubic meters are installed; corresponding to a gross floor area of approximately 500,000 square meters. Nearly two -thirds of the overall planning are completed. The WED chose the name Donaucity for the area.
Concept
The development concept is based on a broad mix of uses, which provides for office and commercial use of a maximum of 70 percent residential use by about 20 percent, and cultural and recreational facilities of approximately 10 percent. Among the commercial users are international companies like IBM, sanofi- aventis and the Strabag SE. In Vienna's first Science and Technology Park, Tech Gate Vienna, to high-tech companies have settled.
Furthermore, City supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, entertainment venues, doctors' offices, a school and a church are present in the Danube.
Future
For the remaining free Baugründe WED AG by French architect Dominique Perrault did create plans. Here are at the edge of the New Danube two designed by Perrault, striking high-rise towers, called DC Towers - up to 220 meters and 168 meters in height - are the highly visible " landmark" of the Danube City. For the higher of the two towers of the ground-breaking ceremony was held in June 2010.
A third high-rise building with 100 meters will complete the skyline. Construction of this is probably in the 2010s. Planned are a further 50 meters tall apartment block, a house of cultures with around 70 meters in height and a Sea Life Centre on the Überplattung.
On 2 October 2012, the S B group and the Soravia told in a joint press release that will be built on the site of the closed since September 22, 2011 Cineplexx Reichsbrücke, a new residential high-rise building under the project name "Danube Flats". Provided 500 apartments spread over 45 floors and a height of around 145 meters. Be invested around € 140 million to the press release was preceded by an architectural competition, the Vienna office "project A01 architects" could decide for themselves. Construction period is planned from 2014 until 2016.