Paulinenwarte – Wikipedia
The Paulinenwarte is a viewing station in the Turkishman Park in the 18th Vienna district of Währing.
On September 30, 1888, Emperor Franz Joseph I opened the Türkenschanzpark in the municipality of Währing, which was a suburb of Vienna until 1891. The ceremony took place in front of the centrally in the park on a hill. The creation of the park had decreased on an initiative by the architect Heinrich von Ferstel, who had justified the Cottage district in the immediate vicinity in 1872/1873. Architect and master builder was Anton Krones sen. (1848–1912).
The observation tower is a visual brick building in the style of the villas, which were then built by the Vienna Cottage Association. The viewing platform of the tower had a wide view of Vienna, which was severely restricted 100 years later by the planted trees.
The tower originally had a double function: it was not only a viewpoint with a magnificent distant view, but also water storage. In the lower part of the tower there is still a sheet tank that was fed by a fountain nearby. The water was distributed by the tower via a cable system in the park that is no longer known. [first]
The Türkenschanzpark is designed as an English landscape park, with meadows, hedges, ponds and stone gardens. Many exotic plants were originally planted; Most of Princess Pauline Metternich had donated. As a sign of thanks, the viewing station in 1909 received the name “Paulinenturm”. [2]
The tower had been closed to visitors since the mid-1970s and the wooden balustrade began to expire. The city administration started renovation in autumn 2009. From May 2010, the Paulinenwarte should have been accessible again, but the renovation continued until summer. The wait has been accessible to the audience since August 7, 2010. [3] Currently (2018) it is open on weekends in the summer months. [2] 60 cents are required for the climb; Naturfreunde Währing and the Vienna Stadtgartenamt (Magistratsabtung 42) took over the support. The renovation cost 673,000 euros, which were applied by the city administration and the district budget. [4]
At the tower there is a difficult to read table, the text of which is as follows:
“At the opening of this park
on September 30, 1888
spoke his majesty Kaiser
Franz Joseph I.
The memorable words:“I sincerely wish that with that
Bloom and thrive by this boy
Gartens also the gratifying upswing
the suburbs which this is possible
will be, also not a physical limit
should divorce from the old mother city,
will always increase. ”This imperial promise was fulfilled on
December 19, 1890 by sanctioning the
Law on the union of the suburbs with Vienna ”
– Inscription on the plaque on the tower
(The association came into force on January 1, 1892)
- Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Dyeing. From Ganserlberg to Schafberg
- Culture report 2006. BM: UKK, S. 155 , Retrieved on December 11, 2017 (Building on Paulinenwarte by the Federal Monument Office).
- ↑ Peter Schuster: Water in the Türkenschanzpark. Archived by Original am March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved on December 11, 2017 .
- ↑ a b City vienna: Preservation tower Paulinenwarte in the Türkenschanzpark ; accessed on April 8, 2018
- ↑ Pauline has a new dress. meinbezirk.at, 4. August 2010.
- ↑ Paulinenwarte open again after 25 years. Austrian radio, August 7, 2010. accessed on August 8, 2010.
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