Brigittenau - History

History

The first known settlers of this area were Babenberg, in the 11th century. In 1096, the area had been extended by Leopold III to the monastery he founded St. Mary Nivenburg (today Klosterneuburg Abbey). The owners were often changed because the country is often away from the Abbey, has been sold and leased.

In the 13th Century, the area was first documented in a chronicle. The Viennese denoted the area as "Werd" (Island). The first settlers in this area were fishermen, hunters and lumbermen. Later, too, settled for gardeners and farmers.

1463/64: The Shock Bridge (today's Sweden Bridge, Schwedenbrücke) was built. This was the first permanent bridge over the still unregulated inner-city branch of the Danube.

1529: The first Turkish siege of Vienna - There was heavy fighting in the area of the Danube islands.

1536 to 1540: were in those plots away Vienna, the Turks during the siege had lost their homes.

1618-1648: Thirty Years War: On 9 April 1645, the Swedish army under Lennart Torstenson won the Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze). Imperial troops conquered back the area in a four-day battle, so the Brigittasage - note also the history of Brigittakapelle.

1670: The first written mention is made of "Brigittenau". The previous names were: "Im Werd", "Schottenau" and "Wolfsau".

1683: Second Turkish siege of Vienna - The Brigittakapelle is in heavy fighting in the Wolf's Lair and the current peace bridge destroyed.

1688-1698: Tabor bridge was built. It was a new road passing "Between the Bridges" and it therefore came to the relocation of the bridge toward Wolf downstream. 1695: The Brigittakapelle was rebuilt.

1732: The court- and the Landjägeramt Fasanerie are established. 1796: Near the Tabor bridge, the Johann Nepomuk chapel is built.

1810: In Brigittenau, the first hand-craft businesses settled, such as a Kunstblecherei, a steam sawmill and a fire-syringe factory.

1828: The Colosseum, an entertainment facility, was built. 1830: There was a devastating ice floe and a great flood from the Danube.

1834: Construction of the "Universum" (today's Universe Street), another venue.

1838: The Emperor Ferdinand-Nordbahn opened, in 1837 as the first steam train of the Empire of Austria (including Hungary at that time) on the leg Floridsdorf - Deutsch Wagram, now crossed the Danube to the North Station at Praterstern.

1840: The first rail-bound train horses drove along what is now the Jägerstraße of old Tabor to the "Colosseum".

1846: The clearing of the remaining Auwaldes, and the creation of nurseries (Vorgartenstraße) in the north of the district.

1848: Robert Blum execution in "Brigittawaldl" by imperial military. The German deputies had come to the Frankfurt National Assembly, in Vienna, to support the democrats against the reactionaries.

1850: The Brigittenau area, between the Danube Canal and Danube, was incorporated as Leopoldstadt in the city of Vienna. It was the 2nd District of Vienna.

1862: A major flood occurs, the final impetus to the Danube regulation (to begin in 1870).

1867: Construction starts for the Brigittakirche church.

1870 Construction begins on major Danube regulation and the construction of the Northwest station at the site of the former "Universums", near the present Tabor.

1871: The Northwest Railway Bridge and the Brigittabrücke (now Peace Bridge) were built. 1873: North rail bridge (Nordbahnbrücke) is built; construction of the Northwest station ended.

1874: Inauguration of Brigittakirche (church) and the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph Bridge over the new (since 1875 leading water) stream bed of the Danube (today Floridsdorfer Bridge).

1875: The New Danube bed is ready, and there were major gains in territory by the Danube regulation.

1883-1884: Construction of the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Government Jubilee Bridge (now Heiligenstädter Bridge) across the Danube Canal.

1886: Opening of the Dampftramway for Vienna-Stammersdorf. The route into this today in the 21st District, led through Jägerstraße, Stromstraße und Marchfeldstraße and over the Kaiser-Franz-Josephs-Brücke.

1897 The first electric tram drove in Vienna. The "Transversallinie" (today, line 5) joined the Vienna head stations of North, Northwest, Franz Joseph and Western Railway and led, of 2 Coming district, along the Augartens (Rauscherstraße) and Wallenstein Street, then on the Brigittabrücke (today's Peace Bridge, Friedensbrücke) in the 9th District.

With the diversion of the Danube zentrumsnächsten arm (of the Danube Canal) from the main stream since 1873, had a floating barrier ( "lock ship") when needed in the water inflow is limited. 1894-98 Otto Wagner built instead Nußdorfer Defense (Schemerlbrücke) and also a chamber lock for shipping.

1900: On 24 March 1900, at the request Brigittenauer politicians to separate Brigittenau from Leopoldstadt. Brigittenau, by the council, was declared the 20th Viennese district (until 1904, the highest district number).

1906: The Amtshaus on the Brigittaplatz opened.

1906: On 7 July, Anton Karas was born in the house at Leystraße 46 (In 1948 he directed by Carol Reed, involved for the music for the film The Third Man (Der dritte Mann) and with his Harry Lime Theme from 1949 becomes known worldwide.)

1907: the operation of the Betriebsbahnhof (in Vienna also known as Remise) Wexstraße tram for the then Lines 3, 34 und V (sprich: vau).

1910: The Dampftramway to Stammersdorf is replaced by electric tram (Straßenbahn) Line 31.

The Stammer Dampftramway after village is by the electric tram (line 31) is replaced.

1912, start of construction for the conversion of Emperor Franz Joseph Bridge. The new Floridsdorfer Bridge, only after the First World War, opened in 1922.

1913: In the hall of the Northwest Station, at a rally of the Sozialdemokratische Reichsratsabgeordnete, Franz Schuhmeier is murdered by Paul Kunschak (brother of the Christian politician Leopold Kunschak).

1914: creation of Sascha-Film, which started in Brigittenau (Treustraße 76), produced by Alexander Graf Kolowrat-Krakowsky.

From the private club to the creation and establishment of a hospital in the 20th Viennese district is at Stromstraße 34, the so-called Brigitta-Spital.

1924: Opening of the community residential complex "Winarsky-Court" (Winarsky-Hof); in their planning in 1921, involved known architects like Adolf Loos and Margarete Schuette-Lihotzky.

1924-1926: Replacement of old Brigittabrücke on the Danube Canal through the new Peace Bridge (Friedensbrücke).

1926: Establishment of the accident-hospital (Unfallkrankenhaus) in Webergasse, under the direction of Dr. Lorenz Böhler.

1929: Huge ice floe on the Danube.

1932: The large municipal residential complex at the Friedrich-Engels-Platz (at Floridsdorfer Bridge) is completed (begun 1930).

From 1938: Terror against Jewish Viennese, with expulsion and mass murder. The school Karajangasse becomes the first concentration camp (Sammellager).

1938: In the hall of the Northwest Station (Nordwestbahnhof), the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition (NS-Ausstellung Entartete Kunst).

1943: Construction of the Flak towers (Flaktürme) in Augarten (2nd district, just on the border of Brigittenau).

16 July 1944: First American bombing at Vienna causes severe damage to Brigittenau.

April 1945: Heavy bomb damage to Bezirksamt, Brigittakirche, Leyschule and many other buildings, total destruction of the All Saints Church (Allerheiligenkirche). Blowing up the Floridsdorfer Bridge peeling by German troops. Brigittenau was occupied by Russian troops.

1946: On 19 May, the Floridsdorfer Bridge reopened as Malinowsky Bridge (Malinowskybrücke, in honor of Soviet Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinowski, the commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, at Vienna). Since 1956, the bridge is again called Floridsdorfer Bridge. Reconstruction the Döblinger and the Peace Bridge (Friedensbrücke).

1952: Removal of the destroyed Northwest station hall.

1962: New Vienna fast-rail with the stop Traisengasse, on the north track through Brigittenau. (Today another stop: Handelskai).

1964: Opening of the Belt Bridge (Gürtelbrücke) over the Danube Canal.

1972: Opening of the new Lorenz-Boehler-accident hospital in Donaueschingenstraße.

1977: Opening the new building of the General Accident Insurance.

1978: Opening of the newly established Floridsdorfer Bridge, next to the old, dilapidated, which is then removed.

1979: Construction of TGM (Technological Gewerbemuseum) in the Wexstrasse.

1982: Opening of the 7th Vienna Danube bridge, the Brigittenauer Bridge, between North Bridge and the Empire Bridge.

1996: Opening of the subway line U6, the belt by Brigittenau after Floridsdorf. At the district field stations Jägerstraße, Dresdner Street and Handelskai. 1996: (also) The border changed at Döbling, in the field of Nußdorfer lands on the Danube Canal. By this, Brigittenau lost beyond the shore area, west of the Danube Canal to Döbling, and received in return, the northern tip of Brigittenauer, which until then had belonged to Döbling.

1999: Opening of the Millennium Tower, the tallest building in Vienna.