Kahlenberg

Kahlenberg transmitter, church and new apartment hotel. In the foreground the vineyards of nut village and Grinzing

The Kahlenberg is a mountain ( 484 m) in the 19th district of Vienna ( Dobling ) and the most famous lookout point at Vienna. In the second Turkish siege in 1683, the town was freed from the army of relief from here, what the St. Joseph's Church recalls.

On the summit plateau

The Kahlenberg is part of the Vienna Woods and is a landmark of Vienna, and a traditional Sunday outing destination of Vienna, since one has to Kahlenberg views over Vienna and in good visibility to the Little Carpathians in Slovakia. Its summit overlooks the Vienna Basin by about 320 m. From the Stefaniewarte, which is located on the highest point of the mountain, you can also see parts of Lower Austria. In addition to the observation tower, which was from 1953 to 1956 broadcasting antennas, there is a 165 m high, guyed steel tube mast of the ORF, which is used to transmit TV and FM programs as well as for radio purposes. This transmission tower erected in 1974 and bears high-altitude operating rooms (which is unusual for such constructions ) and shapes since the appearance of the Kahlenberg.

On the mountain plateau just below the summit stands the small church of St. Joseph, in front of which a large car park and bus stations are located. From there you can go a few steps to the observation deck on the sloping terrain to Vienna level. Here was until about 2004, a restaurant that built the famous architect Erich Boltenstern in the 1930s. Share this former restaurant, the old terrace and the adjacent thereto, vacant for many years, the hotel ruins were demolished and instead built an apartment house in 2007. Against the demolition, there was resistance by the Federal Monuments Office and certain architects who considered the substance of the Boltenstern restaurant building as worthy of protection.

There are also on the plateau a (highly modernized ) Restaurant and a new observation deck. As a final direction Stefaniewarte the Modul University Vienna, a private university of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce was established in some old, some new buildings, which began operations in the winter semester 2007/2008.

Geography and Geology

The Kahlenberg is located in the northeastern foothills of the Eastern Alps and the Flysch Zone is geologically belong, which is composed of quartz, and calcareous marl and other sediments. The tendency to only 1 ½ miles distant Danube has in places inclinations of 45 to 60 percent. East of Mount Kahlenberg is the Leopold mountain behind which the Viennese gate is, the transverse valley of the Danube. To the west are located to the trip, the Latisberg and Hermannskogel. On the opposite side of Vienna, the terrain drops to Klosterneuburg, the former seat of government of Babenberg.

From the west and south, the mountain road winds itself up into two sections and many switchbacks through the woods to the Kahlenberg. It is the starting point of some city trails and traverses deep valleys as the wild pit on the southern slope of Mount Kahlenberg. From there it leads the shallower northern slope down to Klosterneuburg, during a short spur road to the neighboring mountain Leopold branches.

In the last bend of the coming of Grinzing high road southwest of the summit is the Sulzwiese, where the trail branches off to the Vogelsangberg. Here is a Catholic spiritual Recreation Center, both event center of the Schoenstatt Movement Austria.

History

Naming

Until the 17th century, today's Kahlenberg was uninhabited. Originally called the Kahlenberg mountain Sauberg or pork. Its name resulted from the numerous wild pigs who lived in the oak forests. Ferdinand II acquired in 1628 the mountain from Klosterneuburg Monastery and named him Joseph Berg. After the chapel was donated by Leopold I on the neighboring mountain, which at that time was called Kahlenberg, built in 1693 and was ordained to the Holy Leopold, this got the name Leopold mountain. The Josephberg turn now received the name of Kahlenberg.

The Kahlenberg in modern times

Ferdinand II gave after the acquisition of the mountain permission to build a hermitage for the Order of the Camaldolese. To their chapel to St. Joseph built a few houses, and then the place Josefsdorf arose. In the Battle of Vienna by the Polish king Jan III began. Sobieski from Kahlenberg from the struggle against the Turks besieging Vienna (see second Turkish siege ). After the closure of the Hermitage of the monastery on Bald Mountain by Josef II, the area Josefsdorf was auctioned.

After numerous owners, which sold partially single house of the former Hermitage, acquired in 1870, the Union Construction Company, the area and built the gear train and in the area of the existing restaurant building, Hotel Restaurant Kahlenberg. This building was remodeled in 1934 by Erich Boltenstern. After the bankruptcy of the cog railway, the building was purchased by the Kahlenberg AG ( subsidiary of the City of Vienna). After numerous uses different operators, it should be torn down in 1980. 1981 bought the former United Fleischhauer Albert Buschek the site of the City of Vienna and breathed the Kahlenberg "new life" a. After his bankruptcy, the property of Augustin Foit was purchased. The former locksmith tried on the grounds of the former hotel building to a private clinic under the title "Vienna Medical Center". In 1998, the project then had to file for bankruptcy. From the bankruptcy estate of the construction company, the property was sold to Leopold Vienna Inger 2004, this is also the builder of the apartment building. Operators of Gastronomic operations at Kahlenberg (restaurant, wine tavern, convention center and roof terrace) was since 1989 Martin Granninger who has operated until 1993 the hotel for Augustin Foit.

" The poet's home "

Franz Grillparzer, who did not go on in spite of some adversity in the pre-March period, such as the former censorship and the following oft-quoted epigram wrote about his home a stranger about in May 1844 in the album, which is preserved in an autograph manuscript and was published posthumously:

Did you know the land around you beseh'n from Kahlenberg, So you'll what I wrote and what I am understand you.

A second version of the same period has the wording:

Only those who the country is around seen of the Kahlenberg, If what I wrote and who I am, understand.

In other sources, the epigram is dated to 1839 and 1841. From the tourism industry Grillparzer is sometimes placed a mocked summary in the mouth:

Just who was the Kahlenberg, Vienna has seen!

Traffic

Since 1935 via the Kahlenberg mountain road (partly paving stones), a popular tourist street is in every season. In public transport, the Kahlenberg is accessible by the 38A bus of the Wiener Linien from the metro station Heiligenstadt U4 and Grinzing ( tram 38).

By 1921, also led the Bald Mountain Railway, the first Austrian steam cog railway up the mountain. It was built for the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873, but only opened in 1874. The railway wall on a length of 5.5 km, a height of 316 m. Your starting station was located in the village nut ( Zahnradbahnstraße, today terminus of tram line D ) and led through the stations Grinzing and Krapfenwaldl for 1872 opened Kahlenberg Hotel. On September 21, 1920, the web was set.

The cable car to the Kahlenberg is the idea of ​​the Vienna Chamber of Commerce to build a cable car in Vienna.

The idea of ​​a cable car was first introduced in August 2012, a positive feasibility study was conducted on 23 August 2013, presents.

The planned route is to run from the subway station New Danube in the 21st district of Vienna Floridsdorf first along the northern bank of the Danube. Between the bridge and the border Jedleseer the web is to make a crease and lead up to the Kahlenberg on the Danube, the Kuchelauer harbor and the Kahlenbergerdorf.

The projected track length should be six kilometers. As travel time were calculated 19 minutes. The project of the Austrian ropeway manufacturer Doppelmayr provides 63 gondolas, with which approximately 1,000 persons per hour per direction could be promoted. If necessary, the capacity could be expanded to 94 gondolas. After the featured project planning no private land would be overrun, the plots are in possession of the city of Vienna, the federal government and the pen of Klosterneuburg.

The cost of the project would amount to 30 million euros, which could be covered by private companies. Should the City of Vienna approve the project, the railway could be built within two years.

If the project would be realized, then stocks the possibility that it a new tourist attraction for Vienna would arise, as about similar projects in London or Barcelona.