A fishing trip to the fish grave, fish factory and fish monument with film, live music and festival
Vienna (OTS) – Fish were the original inhabitants of the branches of the Danube, which traversed the floodplain landscape of “Zwischenbrücken” in what is now the 20th district, before their habitat fell victim to the massive embankments for the large train stations and the regulation of the Danube in the 1860s – as was the case at the Nordwestbahnhof site. The fish demand of the rapidly growing city had to be met in other ways. From around 1900, the Nordwestbahnhof gradually developed into THE Viennese “fish station”, where fish transported by rail from the North Sea were processed and delivered to the Viennese markets until 1983.
Friday, 21 June 2024
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
With experts in city and fish history, the short hike leads from the Nordwestbahnhof Museum with its fish story collection and a fish graffiti to the former habitats of the Danube fish along the so-called flagpole waters “under” today’s Nordwestbahnhof, to remaining traces of the transport and processing of fish on site, to temporary fish graves and monuments (for the sturgeon) erected by the museum, as well as quotes from works by other artists.
Meeting point: Museum Nordwestbahnhof, Nordwestbahnstrasse 16, 1200 Vienna
Registration requested: office@tracingspaces.net
18:00 Film screening
Natascha Muhic and Francesca Centonze
“A Window to the River”, 28 min., 2021
About Daubel fishing boats, a landscape-defining feature of Vienna’s Danube bank
18:30 Fish Summer Festival Live concert with the Straw Catchers
at the museum petrol station at Nordwestbahnhof
The Nordwestbahnhof Museum is open on this day from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.!
Inquiries & Contact:
Museum Nordwestbahnhof / Tracing Spaces
Michael Zinganel
+43 650 6915388
office@tracingspaces.net
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