Volksgarten, Vienna

The People's Garden is a public park along the Ringstrasse in the 1st district of Vienna Inner City.

History

The People's Garden is located on a site on which previously stood fortifications in the first place. From 1596 to 1597 a curtain wall was built on the eastern side of the present park, on the south in 1639, the castle hill. This was blown up by the French in 1809 and later demolished. The construction of the Hornwerkskurtine 1817-1821 on the side of today's ring road, the area came to be within the city. Therein, a park was created, which was originally intended as a private garden for the Archdukes, but was opened to the proposal from the Hofgarten administration 's first public park in accessible Hofbesitz and on 1 March 1823. From 1825, the term folk garden was in use.

Responsible for the concept of the garden was Ludwig von Remy, the garden design was made by the court gardener Franz Antoine the Elder. The strictly geometrical shape of the ways facilitated the monitoring of the visitors.

In the middle of the installation of the Temple of Theseus was from 1819 to 1823 according to plans by Peter Nobile created. After razing a curtain in 1860 the People's Garden by Franz Antoine was extended the Younger in the course of the Ringstrasse in the French baroque style and 1864 provided with an enclosure of Moritz Löhr. The original plan to build a row of houses along the Löwelstraße was vetoed by Mayor Cajetan Felder.

Inside the property a Renaissance fountain was built. The charting artist is no longer detectable. Stonemason Joseph Haslauer from Salzburg was committed on 15 July 1865 to make the fountain bowl from a piece of reddish Unterberger marble. the substructure concerned champion Anton Burger water, the bronze works made ​​Eduard Kitschelt.

1872, the curtain was removed during the former Paradeisgartl and displaced the original Prunktor to Schonbrunn. From 1883 to 1884, the People's Garden was, in turn, the younger expanded by Franz Antoine, this time on the other side. This part of the plant but was remodeled 1903-1907 by Friedrich Ohmann. In the folk garden also opens the ventilation system of the Burgtheater, with whom he established an underground passage.

In 2000, a 80 -year-old rose bush from the garden of the birthplace of Karl Renner in Dolni Dunajovice was planted whose name is commemorated by the Austrian-Czech society and provided with a commemorative plaque in the People's Garden.

Building

  • Theseus Temple: The temple of Theseus was built in 1819-1823 by Peter von Nobile. This scaled-down replica of the Athens Theseion served as a depository of jobs created by Antonio Canova Theseus sculpture. Canova also worked at the building of the temple with. The sculpture itself was founded in 1890 transferred to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
  • Corti Café: It was also built in 1820-1823 by Nobile. Johann Strauss ( father) and Joseph Lanner performed here. On March 10, 1867 conducted Johann Strauss ( son ) Here the first performance of the Danube waltz in its now mostly known instrumental version.
  • People's Garden Restaurant
  • Milk Pavilion: Built in 1951 by Oswald Haerdtl.
  • Café Dairy: This building was originally built in 1890 as a water reservoir and 1924 converted into a milk bar.

Monuments

  • Grillparzer Monument: Marble sculpture, made ​​in 1889 by Carl Kundmann, behind wall by Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer with reliefs by Rudolf Weyr, mainly from Laas marble, granite pillars.
  • Raab Memorial: 1967 created by Toni Schneider- Manzell. The architecture is derived by Clemens Holzmeister
  • Empress Elisabeth Monument: The monument is an extensive system of Secessionist Friedrich Ohmann. In the center the seated Elisabeth statue is by Hans bitterly. The portrait figure of the Empress was created from an 8,000 -pound block of Lasa marble and measures 2.50 m in height. , Erected in front of a semi-circular wall statue overlooks a surrounded by benches and fountains pond with two fountains. The unveiling ceremony took place in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I. on June 4, 1907.
  • Adolescent Athlete: Bronze Sculpture of Josef Mullner ( 1921).

Fountain

  • Triton and Nymph Fountain: 1880 built by Viktor Tilgner.
  • People Garden Fountains: Fountain, built in 1866 by Anton Dominik Fernkorn.
Curtain wall (fortification) Baron Cajetan von Felder Water well Julius Raab
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