Vienna is getting numerous new street, square, and park names. The names approved today honor personalities from art, science, and society, as well as people whose lives were marked by Nazi persecution, exile, or resistance.

Particularly many new names are emerging in Donaustadt. In the future, Jane Goodall, Tina Turner, Otto Schenk, and Peter Simonischek will be found on the Vienna city map there.

In the Eibengasse city quarter, several new names will commemorate well-known personalities from Austrian culture.

A square will be named after the actor, theater, and opera director Otto Schenk. A lane will soon bear the name of the Burgtheater doyenne Elisabeth Orth.

An avenue will commemorate the long-time Burgtheater actor Peter Simonischek. Another lane will be named after the film and theater legend Waltraut Haas.

Entertainer and presenter Peter Rapp will also receive his own path.

Internationally known names are also being added.

In Seestadt Aspern, the naming of a street after the behavioral and primate researcher as well as animal and nature activist Jane Goodall was decided.

A promenade will soon bear the name of the singer, songwriter, and actress Tina Turner.

This will make two globally known personalities visible on the Vienna city map in the future.

In addition to well-known names, the city is deliberately focusing on personalities whose stories have been less present in public spaces with the new namings.

In Floridsdorf, a park will be named after the actor and director Gerald Pichowetz, who founded the Gloria Theater.

In Josefstadt, the park area previously colloquially known as Hamerlingpark will in the future commemorate the Vienna-born exile writer and translator Lore Segal.

In Leopoldstadt, Soshanaplatz will honor the painter Soshana, born in Vienna in 1927, who was expelled by the Nazi regime.

Several of the new namings explicitly deal with the history of National Socialism.

In Liesing, the Käthe-Sasso-Weg will commemorate the resistance fighter and contemporary witness Käthe Sasso. She advocated for the remembrance of resistance and persecution for many years and passed away in 2024.

In Leopoldstadt, several such memorial sites are being created.

A park will be named after the Viennese competitive swimmer Ruth Langer, who was persecuted by the Nazi regime. The Anna Peczenik Park commemorates a kindergarten teacher, Spanish Civil War fighter, and resistance fighter who was murdered by the Nazi regime in 1944.

The Amalia Carneri Park commemorates the singer Amalia Carneri, who was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.

In Penzing, a park will soon bear the name Emilie Tolnay Park. The resistance fighter was executed by the Nazi regime at the Vienna Regional Court in 1944.

In Donaustadt, a path will also be named after David Josef Bach. The music writer and educator of Red Vienna was forced into exile in 1939.

This aims to permanently anchor stories of persecution, resistance, and displacement in the Vienna cityscape.

Not every new naming refers to a single person.

The crossing previously known as Wiental Bridge between Margareten and Mariahilf will in the future be called Rainbow Bridge.

The name is intended, according to the city, to be a symbol of diversity, acceptance, and equality, while also referencing the historical significance of the LGBTIQ community in the two districts.

In front of the ÖFB Campus in Donaustadt, the name „Platz des Fußballs“ was also decided upon.

In the urban development area Biotop Wildquell in Liesing, historical names are also being adopted.

The names „Am Nussbrunnenfeld“ and „Am Wildquell“ were decided upon there. Both refer back to historical field names of the area.

Councilor for Culture and Science Veronica Kaup-Hasler emphasized that street names not only serve for orientation but also make history visible in everyday life.

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