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The rapidly increasing migration of Africans to the EU plays an important role in the discussion on asylum policy and integration. Since the tragic death of Marcus Omofuma in police custody in 1999, administrative authorities, courts and the media have been confronted with severe criticism in Austria. At the same time, aid and educational institutions, but also municipal institutions, churches and trade unions carry out numerous integration projects, important African community structures with clubs, cultural activities and companies have been established. This anthology places the problems of the present in a historical context for the first time – beginning with Balthasar, who was baptized under the sign of the biblical “Wise Men from the Orient”, and the princely valet and Freemason Angelo Soliman. Under what social conditions did migrants from Africa live in earlier times, how was their integration into labor markets, educational institutions and social life? How do they deal with discrimination and opportunities for emancipation? – A history of racism and discrimination contrasts with a few successful examples of integration. View book

Angelo Soliman (1721-1796) only became really famous after his death: as a stuffed “”savage”” that was exhibited in the imperial natural history collection. His life story is fascinating in itself – it is about the successful life of a migrant who made a career in Vienna in the 18th century. Soliman was the first non-European immigrant in Vienna, about whose life enough has been handed down to reveal him as a person. Born around 1721 in the Sahel zone, he came to Sicily as a slave and worked as a soldier for Prince Lobkowitz and finally to Vienna, where he rose to become a teacher for Prince Liechtenstein. He was highly educated and as a Freemason he was also a brother in Mozart’s lodge. Dressed according to oriental taste, he also went in and out at court and was an interlocutor with Joseph II. In this book, renowned historians and scholars search for Angelo Soliman as a person and as a human being in the cultural context of his time, dealing with topics ranging from the slave trade to the aristocratic fashion of coffee carrots, the moral turn of the Enlightenment to cultural and racist stereotypes. View book

By Stimmer Klusacek – one of the most important, if not the most important, book about Erdberg. View book

The book aims to bring you closer to the district, which is so richly endowed with sights, through cheerful, exciting, and sometimes also touching stories that are connected to these scenes. Have you ever sat on a sphinx in the Belvedere? Do you remember the ‘Europe train’? Did you take your first ice skating steps on the shiny ice of the Vienna Ice Skating Club and your first dance steps on the smooth parquet floor of the ‘Fränzel’ dance school? Did you later go to many a ball in the Sofiensäle or were you even a member of the opening committee? Do you know the oldest inn in the ‘Dritten’ or do you know what connects Richard the Lionheart with Erdberg? You will find that and much more summarized in a bundle of everyday stories from Landstrasse against a historical background in this book. View book

Landstrasse is one of the oldest districts in Vienna. Numerous cultural institutions, embassies and historic buildings such as the Belvedere Palace or the Hundertwasser House adorn the district that was created in 1850. With lots of information on the cultural history of the Landstraße, Karl Hauer and Rudolf Zabrana provide interesting insights into the varied fortunes of the district. Rounded off by eyewitness reports, the compendium also includes a photo essay by Gerhard Trumler, a description of the situation of the Jewish population in Vienna’s 3rd district and a special section on the Landstrasse passageways. In addition to the latest archaeological finds and findings, this book is intended to span the arc to the present day. On the basis of the largely unpublished historical image material, a memorial is to be erected for this lovely district, in which numerous prominent Austrians such as Helmut Qualtinger, Heimito von Doderer or Peter Henisch have their roots. View book

A district writes its book. The country road 1933-1955 by Alexander Stollhof and Doris Weißmüller-Zametzer. The historical arc in which people from Wien Landstrasse remember their personal experiences during this turbulent period of time ranges from the corporate state to the state treaty. Through the bundled description of the individual living conditions and fates, it is possible to snatch a piece of everyday history, embedded in the third district of Vienna, from oblivion. This is important, because in addition to the political and historical events, it was above all the people who lived in it who shaped that time. View book

By resolution of the Vienna City Council of July 6, 1849 and imperial sanction of March 8, 1850, the suburbs of Erdberg, Weißgerber and Landstrasse – the old suburb of Nikolai – were included in the association of the imperial capital and residential city. In the past 150 years, the appearance of the third district has changed very significantly, more than its residents are always aware of. The purpose of this volume is not only to photograph these changes in the appearance of the district, but also to show the people who lived and worked there in the period between 1870 and 1970. The author, who is a profound expert on the district, was a district mandatary for many years and most recently a member of the state parliament and municipal council, and has already published two district volumes in the past. The approximately 240 recordings in this volume, some of which have never been published before, were not only drawn from the author’s own extensive archive, but also to a not inconsiderable extent from the holdings of the District Museum on Landstraße. The rest comes from private photo albums. View book

Vienna – Landstrasse another special cover by Christoph Römer (author). By resolution of the Vienna City Council of July 6, 1849 and imperial sanction of March 8, 1850, the suburbs of Erdberg, Weißgerber and Landstrasse – the old suburb of Nikolai – were included in the association of the imperial capital and residential city. In the past 150 years, the appearance of the third district has changed very significantly, more than its residents are always aware of. The purpose of this volume is not only to photograph these changes in the appearance of the district, but also to show the people who lived and worked there in the period between 1870 and 1970. The author, who is a profound expert on the district, was a district mandatary for many years and most recently a member of the state parliament and municipal council, and has already published two district volumes in the past. The approximately 240 recordings in this volume, some of which have never been published before, were not only drawn from the author’s own extensive archive, but also to a not inconsiderable extent from the holdings of the District Museum on Landstraße. The rest comes from private photo albums. View book

This book is similar to a school book, therefore formulated scientifically. Some reports are very interesting. And it’s from the 70’s. View book

History of the parish of S. Rochus and S. Sebastian on the Landstrasse in Vienna. View book

Ea childhood memory, it lets the old erdberg rise again before my eyes. For all readers who still have pictures in their heads and who know about the old streets of this district. A humorous, loving memory of things that have long since disappeared. Who doesn’t like to remember their childhood and origins. A pleasure to read View book

Today, the Viennese associate St. Marx Cemetery less with a burial ground than with a place where you can go for a walk, enjoy the annual lilac blossom and relax. Because in 1874 a dead person found his final resting place here for the last time. To this day, the cemetery conveys the lifestyle of the time when Vienna was the center of a powerful state. During a visit, however, one also feels the morbidity of the “fin de siècle” that was emerging at the time and can understand how death is dealt with, which the Viennese still cultivate today. Even if many inscriptions have already faded and some things are now incomprehensible, the cemetery remains an important witness from Biedermeier Vienna. Und wie jeder Friedhof weckt er Erinnerungen an längst Verstorbene, die uns bis heute im Gedächtnis geblieben sind. Allen voran Mozart, der 1791 in einem Armengrab auf dem „St.-Marxer Communalen Friedhof“ beigesetzt wurde. Auch Anna Strauß lag hier begraben, die Mutter jenes Komponisten, der einen der berühmtesten Walzer komponiert hat. Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kletter ist bereits mit mehreren historischen Büchern über Wien und seine Institutionen hervorgetreten, neben anderen auch über den Cobenzl, dessen erster Besitzer, Graf Cobenzl, auch hier auf dem Friedhof St. Marx begraben ist. View book

Between 1782 and 1873, numerous people were buried at the “Freythof out of the line”, most of whom had in common a hard-won social advancement. In order to preserve their earthly successes in memory for posterity, soon after Josephine’s egalitarian burial reform was withdrawn, classical or historicist grave monuments were dedicated to them in Biedermeier love for the diverse symbolic form, with Attic steles, mourning genii, urns, tear kerchiefs and torches , stone palm branches and fluttering butterflies. Among the approximately 6,000 tombstones there are hundreds bearing the names of artists, scientists, Prater people and other personalities, tombstones that tell the visitor of Vienna’s rich past, of proud and sad fates. The less successful, on the other hand, were buried in anonymous poor or pit graves, according to the social order of the time. The inventor Josef Madersperger, for example, or the later well-known composer who was buried in such an anonymous shaft grave in 1791, at the age of 35, and whose remains were scattered here somewhere ten years later after the grave site had been abandoned and reassigned: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. View book

Vienna in myth and legend View book

Contemporary witnesses report on the years of war and reconstruction in Vienna: from the air raids announced with cuckoo calls on the radio to the “four in a jeep” to the first ringing of the reinstalled “Pummerin”. From the content: Air raids in the Josefstadt – Fighting at the Floridsdorfer Bridge – Phosphorus bombs on Erdberg – Quartering of our “House Russians” – Low-flying aircraft attacks on Hietzing – Afro-Americans and mixed race babies – Food storm on the southern railway – The Americans are looking for Nazi memorabilia – Zistersdorf and the Mongols… View book