Psychogeographic walk 25.03.2017
Situation:
2017
2009
Gesamtplan Hauptbahnhof Wien, Plangrundlage Wiener Team
Wien -re-definitions of railway concepts, railway, symbol of Modern age
4 different station buildings in this area – always built completely new… a station is a “Visitenkarte” of the City
The only thing that survived the transformations of the stations is the statue of the “Markuslöwe” – reference to the south, Venice, even Orient, something beautiful, exotic
Station etymology: Zentral-, Haupt-,…East, West… Mitte – relativity and non-neutrality, each name gives a meaning, feeling. Renaming the metro station Südtiroler Platz to “Hauptbahnhof” still leaves it 400m far away
Kopfbahnhof – Wien is the beginning and the end – who would want to pass through Wien? now this concept has changed. Intersection of Bezirks (Landstrasse, Wieden, Margareten, Favoriten, Meidling)
1841- 1846 building of the first Stations in the area, “twins”, symetric classicist
Wien-Raaber-Bahn / nach BA
Wien-Gloggnitzer-Bahn
1867- 1870 (Gründerzeit) New building named Centralbahnhof – central position in the Monarchy, tracks to Hungary and Moravia
since 1910 the name was Staatsbahnhof
since 1914 Ostbahnhof
Markuslöwen – 2 of them still exist, 1 at Hauptbahnhof, 2. since 1959 at Franz-Joseph Platz in Laxenburg bei Wien
after the WW2 the roof was demolished
1955-1961 Heinrich Hrdlicka
3 levels: tickets, shops + trains to Hungary, Prague + trains to SK, Semmering, SLO, IT
in the last 60 years, the standards for quality have changed
Glass roof was damaged, low platforms, need to change the trains from a different station, not making the train travelling attractive, since 2006 – media comunication about the transformation
objects worth keeping -> Wien Museum, das Technische Museum, Kulturverband Favoriten – 14 days to remove the interesting objects between demolition and operation
3 objects under the protection: Markuslöwe (*1872/73), Mosaic “Fernweh” 1958, Rudolf Hautzinger (today in Wien Museum), computer art installation Einen Augenblick Zeit, Kurt Hofstetter (Today in ZKM Karlsruhe) from 1994
Denkmalschutz – excavations of the former layers, at the site of HBF old Panzer (1943) was found
3D scan of Sudbahnhof by TU Wien (you can resurrect it, just in case 🙂
18.12.2009 – Urban Destruction – last Südbahnhof party
Bernardo Bellotto: Wien, vom Belvedere aus gesehen (Canaletto-Blick) 1781
Computer art installation Einen Augenblick Zeit, Kurt Hofstetter (ZKM), 1994
Source:
Christoph Blesl, Zeitschienen II: der Südbahnhof in Wien, Wien 2010.
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