!!!Naschmarkt

Naschmarkt (popularly also called "Aschenmarkt", from 
"Asch" = milking pail), Viennese fruit and vegetable market 
opened in 1780 in front of the former Freihaus building in the Wieden 
(4th) district, since approx. 1900 on the area above the Wien river, 
which now flows underground. A small market (mostly for milk and dairy 
products) had been started as early as 1774, to which meat frying 
("Bratelbrater") and dumpling stalls 
("Knoedelhuetten") were added in due course; from 1793 all 
fruit and vegetables brought to Vienna on carts had to be stored and 
sold here, while the wares brought to Vienna by ship on the Danube 
were sold at the   (see) Schanzel market. The stalls were often owned 
and operated by the same families for generations. Its present 
importance as a general food market dates back to 1819. Since 1977 a   
(see) flea market has sprung up on the area west of the Naschmarkt.

!Literature
H. Kretschmer, Mariahilf, 1992.


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