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Alsergrund (; Central Bavarian: ''Oisagrund'') is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria (german: 9. Bezirk, Alsergrund). It is located just north of the first, central district,
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. 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),
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and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) are located in Alsergrund. Until 2013 the University of Economics and Business (
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) 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'',
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for ''General Hospital''). Alsergrund is associated with many notable names of Viennese art and science. It is the birthplace of Romantic composer Franz Schubert. 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. It was Freud's home from 1891 until his flight to England 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 visited him at his Alsergrund office. In addition, the park in front of the
Votivkirche The ''Votivkirche'' ( en, Votive Church) is a neo-Gothic style church located on the Ringstraße in Vienna, Austria. Following the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1853, the Emperor's brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaug ...
, 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 in the east, as well as the Maria-Theresien-Straße, Universitätsstraße and Alserstraße in the south. Neighbouring districts are Döbling in the north,
Währing Währing () is the 18th district of Vienna and lies in northwestern Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. It was formed in 1892 from the unification of the older suburbs of Währing, Weinhaus, Gersthof, Pötzleinsdorf, Neustift am Walde and Sa ...
and
Hernals Hernals (; Viennese German: Hernois) is the 17th district of Vienna, Austria (german: 17. Bezirk, Hernals). Hernals is in northwest Vienna.Statistik Austria, 2007, webpagestatistik.at-23450. Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References). It was anne ...
in the west, Josefstadt and
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in the south. In the east, Alsergrund is separated by the Danube Canal from Brigittenau and Leopoldstadt.


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 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
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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, whose southern part is taken almost entirely by the Vienna
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, 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 The Gymnasium Wasagasse (''Bundesgymnasium Wien IX'', in short ''BG9'') is a secondary school in Alsergrund, the 9th district of Vienna. Alumni of the school include two Nobel laureates, an Academy Award winner and many notable politicians, artis ...
, an Austrian secondary school Lycée Français de Vienne, a French curriculum school, is located in Alsergrund.


Notable residents

*
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(1926–2011), actor, singer and entertainer * Franz Alt (1821–1914), landscape painter * Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer, lived and died here * Karl Farkas (1893–1971), actor and cabaret performer *
Viktor Frankl Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part ...
(1905–1997), neurologist and psychiatrist * Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, lived here *
Erich Fried Erich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer, he mo ...
(1921–1988), poet * Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), Jewish Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism, lived here * Franz Löblich (1827–1897), entrepreneur *
Franz Matsch Franz Josef Karl Edler von Matsch (16 September 1861, in Vienna – 5 October 1942, in Vienna), also known as Franz Matsch, was an Austrian painter and sculptor in the Jugendstil style. Along with Gustav and Ernst Klimt, he was a member of the Ma ...
(1861–1942), painter and sculptor (
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) *
Jörg Mauthe Jörg Mauthe (1924–1986) was an Austrian writer, journalist and broadcasting executive. For some years he was prominent in the city politics of Vienna. Life From 1947 he was working as a journalist, specialising from 1950 in cultural criticism ...
(1924–1986), journalist, writer and politician * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer of the Classical era, lived here in 1788/89 *
Günther Paal Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse '' gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gu ...
(born 1962), Kabarett artist *
Leo Perutz Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vienn ...
(1882–1957), Austrian novelist and mathematician *
Rudolf Prikryl Rudolf Prikryl (21 March 1896 – 13 June 1965) was the provisionally-instated mayor of Vienna from 13 April to 16 April 1945, and is remembered as the "three days' mayor" (german: Drei-Tage-Bürgermeister). Prikryl was born in Vienna, grew up in ...
(1896–1965), "three days' mayor"of Vienna in 1945, raised here * Günther Schifter (1923–2008), journalist and radio presenter * Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951), lived here * Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) * Franz Schubert (1797–1828), an Austrian composer, was born here. * Erwin Steinhauer (born 1951) *
Julius Tandler Julius Tandler (February 16, 1869 – August 25, 1936) was an Austrian physician and Social Democratic politician, whose research secured him a lasting place in the history of anatomy. His main claim to fame was his ambition to introduce a compr ...
(1869–1936) * Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979) * Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905) * Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer and pianist, lived and died here


Sister cities

* Takarazuka (
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) since 1994 * Dongcheng District in Beijing, People's Republic of China


See also

* Sigmund Freud Museum *
Strauss Museum The Museum of the Strauss Dynasty (Strauss Museum) in Vienna is a museum dedicated to the Strauss family: Johann I, Johann II, Josef, Eduard and Johann III. Museum The Museum of the Strauss Dynasty was founded by the private association Kult ...


References


Sources

* "Wien - 9. Bezirk/Alsergrund", Wien.gv.at, 2008, webpage (15 subpages)
Wien.gv.at-alsergrund
(in German). * Felix Czeike: ''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"
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