Icomos híradó különszám (A 37. Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 2007 Eger, 2007)

In 1960 about 120 wine growing farmers offered their wine in special inns, the so called "Heurigen" and Grinzing became famous for its "Heurigen" all over the world but also because of the fact that the buildings are surrounded by the florishing vegetation of the gardens, trees and bushes along the paths, meadows and groves and the spacious landscape of the vinyards. So architecture and nature form the harmonious unit of a "Cultural Landscape". This situation maintains as long as the dimensions of the buildings remain on a tolerable level and their formation goes well with the local "style". The second condition is the cultivation of the vinyards. Both requirements are in danger nowadays. The building activity of the last ten years is going to threaten the balance of the lovely Grinzing landscape. Real-estate companies buy whatever they get intending to install flats in the former farmhouses or to obtain the permission for a new building on a former wine growing area. The economical situation of the farmers is problematic because of the competition with low-priced wines from other parts of Austria or from foreign countries. At the moment in Grinzing there are only nine families of wine growing farmers who offer their own local wine in "Heurigen"-Inns ("Buschenschenken"), all the other restaurants sell wine from abroad.As the prices for a flat or a house in Grinzing are very high the new owners try to erect biuldings with three or four storeys flanking the courtyards of the historical farm houses, and those who succeeded in getting a site near the vinyard area are constructing monster-residencies. The activity of the two responsible authorities - the office for the protection of monuments and the construction administration's section of the local government - is not sufficient. Private activities (Club der Freunde Grinzings etc.) influence at least a great number of newspaper and television reports concerning the preservation of Grinzing (at the moment nearly daily). It is to be hoped that the government of Vienna will tighten up the building regulations and that the legal basis for the protection of monuments will be improved - otherwise the end of the unique cultural landscape of Grinzing is foreseeable. °<y>&° ^sP" Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka Grinzing: Kulturlandschaft im Wandell Wenn man unter der Bezeichnung „Kulturlandschaft" die von Menschenhand geordnete und nutzbar gemachte Natur versteht, so gibt es Kulturlandschaft in den Tälern am Ostabfall des Kahlengebirges im Norden und Nordwesten von Wien seit mindestens zweieinhalbtausend Jahren. Auf La-Tene-zeitliche Burgbefestigungen weisen Ausgrabungen auf dem Leopoldsberg, dem Nussberg und im Kahlenbergerdorf, wo wenige Jahrhunderte später die römische Limesstraße vom Donauufer zur ersten Terrainstufe anstieg und - durch Wachttürme gesichert - über die Hohe Warte donauabwärts führte. Die Fundamente eines römischen Wachtturmes sind bekanntlich unter der Jakobskirche am Pfarrplatz von Heiligenstadt erhalten, das römische Mauerwerk des 2. Jhs. birgt eine frühchristliche Grabstelle des 5. Jhs., die mit dem hl. Severin in Verbindung gebracht wurde. Vom Grinzinger Ortskern ist der Punkt, wo die Limesstraße unterhalb des Heiligenstädter Pfarrplatzes das Gerinne des von Westen zur Donau herabfließenden Baches querte, nur etwa 1200 Meter entfernt.