Alsergrund (;
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Vienna
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Austria
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(german: 9. Bezirk, Alsergrund). It is located just north of the first, central district,
Innere Stadt. Alsergrund was incorporated in 1862, with seven suburbs. As a central district, the area is densely populated. According to the census of 2001, there were 37,816 inhabitants over 2.99 square km (1.15 sq. mi).
Many departments of the
University of Vienna (main university),
TU Wien and the
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) are located in Alsergrund. Until 2013 the University of Economics and Business (
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) was also located in the 9th district, but eventually moved to the
2nd district. There are also many large hospitals, including the biggest in Vienna, the AKH (''Allgemeines Krankenhaus'',
German for ''General Hospital'').
Alsergrund is associated with many notable names of Viennese art and science. It is the birthplace of Romantic composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
.
Classic music composer
Ludwig van Beethoven died here in his apartment at Schwarzspanierstraße 15. Berggasse 19 is the former residence and office of
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
. It was Freud's home from 1891 until his flight to
England
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in 1938, and is currently the site of the
Vienna Sigmund Freud Museum. Most of the patients Freud treated during the development of his theories of
psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...
visited him at his Alsergrund office.
In addition, the park in front of the
Votivkirche, on the corner of Währingerstrasse and Schottenring, was named after Freud, in memory of his frequent visits there.
Geography
Alsergrund is situated in north-central Vienna. It covers 2.99 km² (1.15 sqmi) making it the seventh smallest district of Vienna. North to South the district covers 2,35 km (3.8 mi) from the northernmost point of the Gürtel boulevard down towards the first district. The main east–west axis is located between Augarten Brücke and Zimmermannplatz (2 km, 3.2 mi).
[
Wolf: ''Alsergrund. Bezirk der Dichter und Denker''
("Alsergrund: District of Talkers and Thinkers"), p.77.]
The district is delimited by:
Gürtel in the west, the
Danube Canal
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in the east, as well as the Maria-Theresien-Straße, Universitätsstraße and Alserstraße in the south. Neighbouring districts are
Döbling
Döbling () is the 19th District in the city of Vienna, Austria (german: 19. Bezirk, Döbling, Doebling). It is located on the north end from the central districts, north of the districts Alsergrund and Währing. Döbling has some heavily populate ...
in the north,
Währing and
Hernals in the west,
Josefstadt and
Innere Stadt in the south. In the east, Alsergrund is separated by the
Danube Canal
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from
Brigittenau
Brigittenau () is the 20th district of Vienna (german: 20. Bezirk, Brigittenau). It is located north of the central districts, north of Leopoldstadt on the same island area between the Danube and the Danube Canal. Brigittenau is a heavily popul ...
and
Leopoldstadt
Leopoldstadt (; bar, Leopoidstod, "Leopold-Town") is the 2nd municipal Districts of Vienna, district of Vienna (german: 2. Bezirk) in Austria. there are 103,233 inhabitants over . It is situated in the heart of the city and, together with Bri ...
.
Topography
The natural topography of the district area has been covered by centuries of construction. Alesergrund's lowest point at 163 meters can be found near Bauernfeldplatz, its highest near Michelbeuern (202 meters).
The branches of the Danube played a significant part in shaping the general lay of the land.
The waterfront edge is still recognizable, through the waste ground between the Nußdorfer Straße, Währinger Straße, and Lichtenstein-Straße. There are also minor rivers:
Wienerwald streams, all of which were bricked over in the 19th century. The main stream, the Als, used to cause frequent flooding.
The foothills of the
Vienna Woods
The Vienna Woods (german: Wienerwald) are forested highlands that form the northeastern foothills of the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Lower Austria and Vienna. The and range of hills is heavily wooded and a popular recreation area ...
reach into Alsergrund. In the Middle Ages, these were used for vineyards.
Sections
The Alsergrund was formed, in 1850, from seven suburbs. The names of the suburbs have remained in section names but also in the awareness of many residents. In the northeast area of the district is the Althangrund, mostly with public facilities and infrastructure constructions built, such as the Franz Josef station, the Vienna University of Economics, the geosciences, mathematics, pharmacology and biology faculties of the University of Vienna, the Transport and postal and Telegraph Directorate. In the north is also the Spittelau with the incinerator Spittelau. South of Althangrund, joins the Rossau, which is mostly covered with residential buildings. Among the main installations include Rossauer barracks, the Servitenkloster, the Jewish cemetery. Even the Palais Liechtenstein belongs to Rossau, not northern Lichtental, a residential area in the parish.
In the south is the Alser suburb, whose southern part was added to the 8th district, Josefstadt. The district is established, in large part, with academic institutions such as the Old
AKH and the Medical University of Vienna. In addition, in the suburb Alser, are the Vienna University and the St. Anna Children's Hospital. In the east is the part of the
Michelbeuern
Michelbeuern is a neighbourhood of the Alsergrund, the 9th district of Vienna. Today, the major part of its area is dedicated to the Vienna General Hospital.
The name ''Michelbeuern'' can be traced back to the Benedictine monastery of Michelbe ...
, whose southern part is taken almost entirely by the Vienna
AKH, north of Himmelpfortgrund. The district is almost exclusively populated residential houses and also the Hera Sanatorium.
A breakdown of the district area is also in the Zählbezirken of the official statistics, in which the census district of the municipality are combined. The six Zähl areas in Alsergrund are Lichtental-Spittelau, Rossau, General Hospital, Nußdorferstraße-Volksoper, Liechtenstein Street, and University Quarter.
Education
Gymnasium Wasagasse, an Austrian secondary school
Lycée Français de Vienne, a French curriculum school, is located in Alsergrund.
Notable residents
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Peter Alexander (1926–2011), actor, singer and entertainer
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Franz Alt (1821–1914), landscape painter
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Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer, lived and died here
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Karl Farkas (1893–1971), actor and cabaret performer
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Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), neurologist and psychiatrist
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
(1856–1939), neurologist who founded the discipline of
psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...
, lived here
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Erich Fried (1921–1988), poet
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Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), Jewish Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism, lived here
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Franz Löblich (1827–1897), entrepreneur
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Franz Matsch (1861–1942), painter and sculptor (
Art Nouveau)
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Jörg Mauthe (1924–1986), journalist, writer and politician
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer of the Classical era, lived here in 1788/89
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Günther Paal (born 1962), Kabarett artist
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Leo Perutz (1882–1957), Austrian novelist and mathematician
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Rudolf Prikryl (1896–1965), "three days' mayor"of Vienna in 1945, raised here
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Günther Schifter (1923–2008), journalist and radio presenter
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Arnold Schönberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
(1874–1951), lived here
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Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.
Biography
Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy ...
(1862–1931)
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
(1797–1828), an Austrian composer, was born here.
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Erwin Steinhauer
Erwin Steinhauer (born 19 September 1951 in Vienna) is an Austrian actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Der Sonne entgegen'' (1985, TV series)
* ''Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capit ...
(born 1951)
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Julius Tandler (1869–1936)
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Friedrich Torberg
Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer.
Biography
He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish he ...
(1908–1979)
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Rudolf von Alt
Rudolf Ritter von Alt (; 28 August 1812 – 12 March 1905) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889.
Biogra ...
(1812–1905)
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer and pianist, lived and died here
Sister cities
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Takarazuka (
Japan) since 1994
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Dongcheng District in
Beijing,
People's Republic of China
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See also
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Sigmund Freud Museum
*
Strauss Museum
References
Sources
* "Wien - 9. Bezirk/Alsergrund", Wien.gv.at, 2008, webpage (15 subpages)
Wien.gv.at-alsergrund(in German).
*
Felix Czeike
Felix Czeike (21 August 1926 – 23 April 2006) was an Austrian historian and popular educator. He was an author and partly also editor of numerous publications on the history of Vienna and was the director of the . His main work is the six-volume ...
: ''Wiener Bezirkskulturführer: IX. Alsergrund'' ("Vienna District Cultural Guide: IX. Alsergrund"). Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1979, .
* Carola Leitner (Hg.): ''Alsergrund: Wiens 9. Bezirk in alten Fotografien'' ("Alsergrund: Vienna's 9th District in Old Photographs"). Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, .
* Hans Mück: ''Quellen zur Geschichte des Bezirks Alsergrund'' ("Sources on the History of the Alsergrund District"). Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1978.
* Alfred Wolf: ''Alsergrund. Bezirk der Dichter und Denker'' ("Alsergrund: District of Poets and Thinkers"). Mohl, Vienna 1993, .
* Alfred Wolf: ''Alsergrund-Chronik. Von der Römerzeit bis zum Ende der Monarchie'' ("Alsergrund Chronicle: From the Roman era until the end of the monarchy"). Vienna 1981.
* Alfred Wolf: ''Wien Alsergrund'' (Vienna Alsergrund). Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, .
External links
"Wien - 9. Bezirk/Alsergrund" website Wien.gv.at, 2008, webpage has over 15 subpages (in German).
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