Wieden

  • SPÖ: 12
  • FPO: 5
  • GREEN: 12
  • ÖVP: 11

The Wieden is the fourth district of Vienna and Vienna lies within the belt, which was created in place of the former Linienwall. The district was created in 1850 by amalgamation of several suburbs, 1861, he was divided and lost part of his face on the newly created 5th District Margaret. The Wieden is a typical inner district, a densely populated area with few green spaces. The district name is used with products; you do not live " in Wieden ," but " auf der Wieden ".

  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 3.2 Population structure
  • 3.3 Origin and Language
  • 3.4 Religious preferences
  • 6.1 Attractions
  • 6.2 Culture
  • 6.3 Museums
  • 7.1 traffic 7.1.1 private transport
  • 7.1.2 Public Transport

Geography

Location

The Wieden is limited as follows:

  • North: Inner City (1st district), limit: Karlsplatz ( along the line U4) and Lothringerstraße, southern Häuserfront
  • East: Road ( 3rd District ), limit: Schwarzenberg Square and Prinz- Eugen-Straße
  • South: Favourites ( 10th District ), limit: before: northern edge of the Southern Railway equipment ( just south of the belt ), 2009: south edge of the belt main road
  • West: Margaret ( 5th district ), limit: Chain Bridge Lane, Margaret Street, Small Neugasse, Mittersteig, Ziegelofengasse, Blechturmgasse to the waist
  • Northwest: Mariahilf ( 6th district ), limit: Rights Vienna line, northern edge of pavement to the Naschmarkt

The 4th district is traversed from northeast to southwest of the Wiedner Hauptstrasse, from north to south of the favorite street. Since a boundary change in 2009, no part of the Naschmarkt belongs more to the 4th district.

Use

The construction area is 67.4 % Wieden ( Vienna average 33.32 %), of which approximately 77.9 % is attributable to residential area. With approximately 26% of the traffic area takes the second largest share of the district area a ( Vienna average 13.75% ). The green areas represent only 6.56% of the district area a ( Vienna average 48.26 %), with 85.5 % is used for parks. However, five other districts have even less amount of green as Wieden. Forests, allotments, sports or recreational areas as well as agricultural areas are not present in Wieden.

Parts of the district

The parts of the district of Wieden Wieden, Hungelbrunn and Schaumburg reason. They go back to formerly independent towns, however, have in the political administration of no importance.

A breakdown of the district area is now in the census tracts to official statistics, in which the Zählsprengel the municipality are summarized. The four census tracts in Wieden Institute of Technology, Argentinierstraße, Wiedner Hauptstrasse and Schaumburg reason. The limits of Zählbezirks Schaumburg reason are not ident with those of the formerly independent village with the same name

History

The Wieden was first mentioned in 1137, it is thus one of the earliest mentioned suburbs of Vienna. The main street ( Wiedner Hauptstrasse) is certainly even older. Under Ferdinand II of this main road east was the imperial summer residence, called " New Favorita ", completed and enlarged several times in the sequence.

1737 was completed on today's district area one of the most important religious buildings of Austria, established in accordance with imperial vow Karlskirche. She stood on the southern shore of the then totally unregulated Wien River and was optically to the Hofburg, Vienna's imperial residence in the old city today, aligned. The surrounding space is called the Church since 1899 after the founder, the Emperor Charles VI. , Karlsplatz.

His daughter Maria Theresa decided a little later, no longer to use the New Favorita and sell it to the Jesuits. They made the summer residence of an educational institution, which continued to develop in later decades for private and now highly respected high school Theresianumgasse. ( Austria's Diplomatic Academy is housed here.)

The infrastructure which is uphill on the main front of the New Favorita led to the south, where he met since 1704 to a new fortification, the Line Wall, with a guarded gate, called " Favorites line." Outside the door, the "settlement prior to Favorites line " developed in the sequence, which belonged to Wieden until 1874. The road there was logically called Favorites street and is called the 4th and the 10th District to the case today.

Early 18th century began the development of Wieden a suburb. It provides a lot of palaces were built. Two small suburbs on the territory of today's fourth district were Hungelbrunn and Schaumburg reason that is created until 1813.

These three suburbs were incorporated in addition to a number of other on March 6, 1850 the district name Wieden as 4th district to Vienna. Because of the social and economic differences was 1861, the center distant, less wealthy part of the district as the new 5th district, Margaret, separated from the 4th district. At this time included the Wieden and now Margaret as the only areas outside districts, south of the line Walls; they were in 1874 as the 10th district, Favoriten, separated.

1854 was built over the river Wien in a place where the first bridge was mentioned in 1211 to connect the Wiedner Hauptstrasse with the Old Town, the Elisabeth Bridge. 1895-1900 was the regulation of the Vienna River throughout the city. The river was completely vaulted in the area of ​​today 's Naschmarkt ( in 1902 moved to this location ) and said since 1899 Karlsplatz area; 1867 bridge built statues of the Elisabeth Bridge threadbare 1897 they moved to the Town Hall Square. At the same time, the Vienna city railway was built; their station Karlsplatz is now metro node ( lines U1, U2, U4).

In the early days many residential buildings were built, but here there was already since about 1700 the open house so called, then the largest apartment building in Vienna. It was pulled down gradually until 1970.

The belt as a " ring road " for the new districts 3-9 was built in sections. 1880, the southern belt was available only as a project, in 1882 the name was set Wiedner Gürtel. After 1892 numerous suburbs of the city to the northwest, west and southwest were amalgamated on January 1, the obsolete Linienwall (a small wall rest in the yard of the house has been preserved Weyringergasse 13 ) was demolished in the nineties of the 19th century. Now the Wiedner Gürtel was broadly based and built on its northern edge.

(Today: ORF) In the interwar period the broadcast home for the RAVAG was built in Argentinierstrasse are transmitted from the broadcasting studio still live radio broadcasts. During attempted Nazi coup, the radio station was temporarily occupied on 25 July 1934 by the insurgents. During the years of occupation (1945 to 1955) was the Wieden part of the Soviet sector of Vienna since the " Russians " wanted to have the transmission facilities within their sphere of influence.

During the Second World War, the St. Joseph Children's Hospital was destroyed. The demolition of the Wiedner Hospital and erected in its place new construction of Bertha von Suttner court was 1956 1954 was next to the Karlskirche on Karlsplatz, the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna (now the Vienna Museum ). Built. In 1957, the Chamber of Labour was built on the grounds of the former Palais Rothschild in the Prinz-Eugen- Straße 20-22. The official home for the 4th district was rebuilt in the favorite street 18 1969. With the opening of U1 in 1978 was followed by a redesign of the Karlsplatz and Ressel Park with pond in front of the Karlskirche.

The Technical University of Vienna got a new institute building and library between Wiedner Hauptstrasse and Operngasse.

The theater " accent " was opened in 1989 and 1995, the opening of the Regional Museum and the chimney sweep Museum followed in the former public baths in the Klagbaumgasse 4th 1999 it came to a slight change in the district boundaries, and in the region of the Black Mountain course and the Prinz- Eugen-Straße the boundary line for the 3rd district and in the area of ​​Kettenbrückengasse the boundary line was moved to the 5th district.

To 2001, the construction of the final version of the Kunsthalle Karlsplatz. 2009, the district boundary was altered in the range of the Naschmarkt that its lying in Wieden part was assigned to the 6th District.

Population

Demographics

In 1869, 55 682 people lived in the district area. In the following years, until 1910, the population increased to almost 63,000. Since then, until 2001, a decrease of the population is listed. In recent years, the Wieden Vienna followed the trend and the population increases again.

Population structure

The proportion of people who are 60 years and older is 24.3 % above average, because the whole urban area of ​​Vienna, this proportion is 22.2 %. The proportion of the population under 15 years was 12.1 %. The proportion of the female population is 54.1 %, also above the average of Vienna.

Ethnicity and language

The proportion of Wiedner with foreign citizenship in 2001 was 15.3%, about 2 % lower than the average of Vienna. This 3.7% Wiedner had a citizenship of Serbia and Montenegro, 1.5% are German citizens. They are followed by other EU citizens ( 1.8%), Turkey (1.0%), Croats (1.0 %) and Bosniaks as well as other foreigners whose share of the population but less than 1%. A total of 2001 about 25.4 % of the Wiedner population were born in another country, therefore, gave only 76% of the Wiedner German as their everyday language. Additional 5.4% mainly spoke Serbian, Turkish 2.2%, 2% and 1.4% Croatian Hungarian.

Religious denomination

The proportion of people with a Roman Catholic confession is 48.1 %. There is in the municipality of four Roman Catholic parishes that belong to Stadtdekanat 4/5. Proportionally behind the people with a Roman Catholic confession followed by 6.7% with the Protestant faith (which is the second highest value to the Wieden with Liesing shares ). and 6.0 % with Orthodox confession. The followers of Islam are 4.6%, with the fourth digit. 26.3% of the Wiedner admit to be no religious persuasion.

Policy

The district Wieden was traditionally a bourgeois embossed district. Since the Second World War, the ÖVP was since 1946 throughout the party winning most votes and thus provides the district director. Behind it was traditionally the SPÖ and the FPÖ, which increased its share of the vote in Vienna strongly from the end of the 80s. With the entry of the Greens into politics in the 80s ÖVP and SPÖ lost rapidly votes. In 1996, when also the Liberal Forum (LIF ) took that went again at the expense of the ÖVP and SPÖ. While the FPÖ and the LIF noticably again lost votes from 2001, the Greens continued their electoral gains. In 2005, the ÖVP was only just ahead of the Social Democrats, which could greatly reduce the distance to the ÖVP. The Greens came in with an increase of around 6% just behind in third place. In the state assembly and council elections in Vienna in 2010, the SPÖ was the ÖVP, the very poor sections in total in these elections to overtake a few votes.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the district Wieden consists of the coat of arms of three former Viennese suburbs, which were wholly or partly on the present territory of the region. The upper left part of coat of arms stands for the part of the district of Wieden and shows a willow tree. This coat of arms was due to a misinterpretation of the name Wieden which is derived not from the willow tree, but by the term " parsonage " ( parsonage / Pfarrgut ). The right, upper crest part is the part of the district of Schaumburg reason. It shows the tower of St. Stephen, surrounded by the starhembergischen coronet. This stands for the defense of Vienna in 1683 by Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg who owned the house free auf der Wieden. The lower part Crest finally shows the emblem of the suburbs Hungelbrunn, of which a small part is in today's 4th district. It shows a draw-well, over which the Holy Leopold, patron of Lower Austria floats. In addition, stand St. Peter and St. Florian, the neighboring St. Florian's Church is consecrated in Matzleinsdorf.

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • Heumühle
  • Charles Church
  • Naschmarkt
  • Pauline Church
  • City railway station Karlsplatz ( Otto Wagner Pavilion )
  • Theresianumgasse
  • Wien Museum
  • Palais Schoenburg
  • Mozart Fountain
  • Alois- Drasche Park
  • Wieden Elisabeth Church
  • ORF radio house

Culture

The Wieden belongs largely to the World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna. The outer zone is limited to the south of the Kolschitzkygasse and Weyringergasse and on the west by the Klagbaumgasse and Schoenburg alley. The Karlsplatz with Charles Church, the Wien Museum, the main building of the Technical University and the Evangelical school is part of the core zone of the World Heritage Site.

Museums

The most visited museum in the district of Wieden is the Wien Museum Karlsplatz, which documents his exhibition in Vienna's history over the centuries and has an art collection and historic collection. Go to Vienna museum also includes Schubert's death apartment in the Chain Bridge Street, where the last phase of life of the composer is shown. A far more extensive documentation of Franz Schubert is in his birthplace ( Nußdorferstraße / Alsergrund ). The collection of the Generali Foundation has a collection of around 2,100 contemporary works by some 170 international artists. The oldest works of art date from the 1950s. Kunsthalle Wien, which goes back to a provisional at Karlsplatz, has in this place today through a site. Furthermore, the district Wieden has the Funeral Museum of Funeral Vienna, the chimney sweep Museum and the private Third Man Museum. The District Museum Wieden is now focusing among other things on the documentation of the open house on the Wieden, Wiedner Mühlfeld, the Linienwall and old abandoned Viennese enterprises.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Private transport

The district is in the north ( Vienna line), to the south and west (belt) bounded by main thoroughfares. Across the district run the Wiedner Hauptstrasse and the favorite street. In addition, the South Tyrolean space is an important transportation hub. Overall, Wieden has about 29 km municipal roads ( 2005).

The cycle facilities in the district comprise about 8.5 km (2005) and thus form a dense network. The cycling takes in the district ( as in the other inner-city districts ) an increasingly important position in the private transport, as may be cycled against some one-way streets. However, there are still many gaps in the bicycle network. In addition, Wieden has a City Bike Station, which is located near the Karlsplatz. Other stations are located near the county line.

Public transportation

Public transport is handled by the Wiener Linien. The 4th District has three stations on the U1 ( Karlsplatz Square South Tyrol ) and at the county line, there are stations of U2 and U4. Moreover, there is both the South and East Railway Station and the S- Bahn route on the county line to the 10th district.

By Wieden lead on Wiedner Hauptstrasse the tram lines 1, 62 and the Badner Bahn and the Prinz- Eugen-Straße tram line D. In addition, there are also two bus lines (13A and 59A ).

On the night Wieden is served by four buses of Nightline. Three of these bus lines are open daily between about 0:30 and 05:00 clock clock running, the Fourth only on weekends. Nightline following lines can be used in the district: N60, N62, N66 and N71.

The South Tyrolean Place is a large commercial and Umsteigeknotenpunkt in the south, as urban and regional bus services, night bus lines, tram lines, the U- Bahn and S -Bahn lines move to this place.

Education

There are in Wieden six elementary schools, three primary schools, three high schools, a technical school as an evening school, a music conservatory, the polytechnic 's degree in Accounting and Finance University of Applied Sciences Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. Particularly noteworthy are the school branch of the Wiedner High School with the goal of gifted education ( Sir Karl Popper -Schule ) and the famous Nobel School Theresianumgasse. An opportunity for further education of Viennese folk high school is the polycollege Wieden, a branch of the polycollege in Margaret.

Security

In Wieden two police stations of the Federal Police are established, they are in the Taubstummengasse 11 and in the Rainergasse 21 (actually Johann Strauss Gasse 18, is an ID address). Organizationally, they belong to the Stadtpolizeikommando Margaret, which is responsible for the municipal districts Wieden, Margaret and Mariahilf.

Personalities

Wienzeile Schwarzenbergplatz Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor Diplomatic Academy of Vienna Wiener Stadtbahn U1 (Vienna U-Bahn) Germans Serbian language Hungarian language Viennese state election, 2010 Freihaus Saint Florian Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station Funeral Museum Vienna U2 (Vienna U-Bahn) Vienna S-Bahn Wiener Lokalbahnen Music school Adult high school Christoph Willibald Gluck Karl Kraus (writer) Rosa Mayreder
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