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Alaudagasse
1100 Favoriten

€ 26,00

Pages: 52 + cover
Edition: 5 + artists copy (first edition)

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Alaudagasse was named on September 3, 1968 after the Roman Legio Alaudarum (Schopflerchenregiment), whose veteran village was on Wienerberg. The name Alaudae goes back to a Celtic name for the crested lark, the name was coined by the Romans and was already used under Caesar. This was probably alluding to the legion’s unusual crista (crest). Zoologists refer to the Schopflerche as a characteristic bird of the Laaer Berg area.

The alley between Favoritenstraße and Laaer-Berg-Straße, which runs roughly in a west-east direction, forms the northern boundary of the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Ost, which extends on the southern slope of the Laaer Berg.

 

I visited Alaudagasse on March 8th, 2020 and it had a special surprise in store for me, namely the Frohsinn allotment garden association. My grandmother, who has been dead for a long time, had a plot there and as a child I often went there, but I didn't realize where the association was. I was curious and was able to find the garden and met my uncle there, with whom we have no real contact. He inherited the land. It was actually very nice to see him again.