Vienna night skating 2000

Starting with 12th may 2000, every friday is skate night in Vienna. Organized by the Grüne Wien [G] , a political party, the skater meet at 10 p.m. at the Heldenplatz. They describe the route of the next tour [G] on their web page. The skater are escorted by the police.
Cyclists and microscooter driver are welcome too.
The skate tours are over for this year. But it will be continued next year.

• the organisation team (Grüne Wien [G])
• Thomas Miglinci (from the Österreichischer Rollsport und Inline-Skate Verband [G]) for coordinating the ordner activity
• the police [E] for keeping cars, motorbikes and other motorized vehicles away from the skater.
• the ordner [E] for blocking the roads and throwing in a helping hand when it's needed
• the skater for being so enthusiastic

• the police [E]
• the ordner [E]
• photos which are worth taking a look at [E]

• 12. 5. 2000
• 19. 5. 2000
• 26. 5. 2000
• 2. 6. 2000
• 9. 6. 2000
• 16. 6. 2000
• 23. 6. 2000
• 30. 6. 2000
• 7. 7. 2000
• 14. 7. 2000
• 21. 7. 2000
• 28. 7. 2000
• 4. 8. 2000
• 11. 8. 2000
• 18. 8. 2000
• 25. 8. 2000
• 1. 9. 2000
• 8. 9. 2000
• 15. 9. 2000
• 22. 9. 2000
• 29. 9. 2000
• 6. 10. 2000

• Number of skater: about 100
• Route: Heldenplatz - Neustiftgasse - Gürtel - Wiental - Wienfluß - Urania / Schwedenplatz - Prater - Prater Hauptallee - Tribüne Krieau
• Time: about one hour
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Taken with my digital camera [E]. Some seem to be a little bit experimental, because it's not easy to skate and photograph at the same time.
• Comments: Not bad for the first time.

• Number of skater: about 400
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Volksgartenstraße - Neustiftgasse - Lerchenfelder Gürtel - Neubau Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:05 - 23:15
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Taken with my digital camera [E]. They are still more experimental than useful because the targets are moving - as I do. And the flash light is very poor. The setting for night shots seems to delay the exposure time and I think that is responsible for the wishy-washy lines.
  I keep on testing the right settings for useable photos.
• Comments: Something must have gone wrong. We rolled at snail's pace along our route. :(
  First they are closing the streets for other vehicles. And then most of the time the skater have to skate as slow as someone who is walking.
  So why using the street? I'm skating faster if I use the sidewalk, where I have to take care of other individuals which are crossing my way.
  Many persons asked if the speed can be increased a little bit, but nothing happend. One person said that we are going to travel back in time if the speed is lowered once more.
  Many thanks to the organisation team and the people who are helping them. But if they are going to keep this speed, I won't skate at this events anymore. Sorry, but I want to skate and not to roll.

• Number of skater: about 500
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Volksgartenstraße - Neustiftgasse - Lerchenfelder Gürtel - Neubau Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Rathausplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:15
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Hey, this time I got the right settings for the camera. The pictures are better than the previous one. But the flash light is still very poor and only acceptable for close-up shots.
• Comments: Speed, speed, speed. It's nice to see that some persons are able to accept critic and try to correct the points of critic. :)

• Number of skater: about 700
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Volksgartenstraße - Neustiftgasse - Lerchenfelder Gürtel - Neubau Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Urania - Aspernbrücke - Aspernbrückengasse - Praterstraße - Praterstern - Prater Hauptallee - Kaiserallee - Tribüne Krieau
• Time: 22:00 - 23:15
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: After the comment in the blackbox [G] discussion forum where someone stated that it would be nice if there were more organization persons escorting the skater, I asked Christoph Chorherr (one member of the Grüne Wien [G]) if I could help them. They told me to be at the meeting point (Heldenplatz) half an hour before the tour starts. So I arrived 30 minutes past nine. I was asked if I could skate fast. After my approval of this question I got the job to help the police to block the roads.
  That means: Start at the top of the crowd and if a police patrol blocks a road you have to stay there so they can drive to the next road. You have to stay and block the road until the whole crowd of skater passed you and the closing car reaches you. Then you skate to the top of the skating group or to the next police patrol (whatever comes first). For this job you have to be in good condition because you need much energy for short time periods.
  It's a pity that some people don't follow the instructions. It's so easy: Don't skate on the sidewalk and keep one meter on the left side clear so that the escort persons can pass.

• Number of skater: ?
• Route: Heldenplatz -
• Time: 22:00 - ?
• Photos: Sorry, no photos. Why not? Read the comments.
• Comments: To keep it short: I wasn't there. I have been at Rock im Park [G].

• Number of skater: about 400
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Volksgartenstraße - Neustiftgasse - Lerchenfelder Gürtel - Neubau Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:15
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: I guess that the bad weather (cloudy and no sun - it looked like it would start raining every moment) and the television broadcast of the European championship of football seem to keep the people away from this event. But doing sport is better than watching it.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 200
• Planned route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Urania - Aspernbrücke - Aspernbrückengasse - Praterstraße - Praterstern - Prater Hauptallee - Kaiserallee - Tribüne Krieau
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:05
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: It seems that the rain keeps the people away. When we started skating there was no rain, but the heaven was very cloudy. After 40 minutes it started raining and we had to skate back.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 600 (some skater estimated that there were up to 1500 people, but that is a little bit to high IMHO).
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Schloßbrücke - Schönbrunner Straße - Schloßstraße - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Wiedner Hauptstraße - Karlsplatz - Karlskirche
• Time: 22:00 - 23:20
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. I didn't use 16 photos because they were too dark.
• Comments: Better weather means more people (which means more fun). Maybe we are able to motivate more than 1000 people to participate at this event.
  A local group of the Grüne Wien [G] gave a little party at the Karlsplatz (our finish) and welcomes the skater.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Planned route: Heldenplatz - Ring - Kalrsplatz - Wienzeile - Schönbrunn - Wienzeile - Oper - Ring - Heldenplatz
• Route: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Time: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Photos: Sorry, no photos.
• Comments: I have missed this skate night, so I can't comment it.
• Acting as ordner [E]: no

• Number of skater: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Planned route: Heldenplatz - Floridsdorfer Brücke - Reichsbrücke - Heldenplatz
• Route: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Time: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Photos: Sorry, no photos.
• Comments: I have missed this skate night, so I can't comment it.
• Acting as ordner [E]: no

• Number of skater: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Planned route: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Route: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Time: Unknown. I missed this skate night and nobody provided me with this information. If you know it, please send this information to me to help me keeping this page up to date.
• Photos: Sorry, no photos.
• Comments: I have missed this skate night, so I can't comment it.
• Acting as ordner [E]: no

• Number of skater: -
• Planned route: Heldenplatz - Ring - Franz Josefs Kai - Brigittenauer Lände - Floridsdorfer Brücke - Fultonstrasse - Praterstern - Heldenplatz
• Route: -
• Time: -
• Photos: -
• Comments: It was raining so the skate night was canceled.
• Acting as ordner [E]: no

• Number of skater: about 30
• Planned route: Heldenplatz - Ring - Franz Josefs Kai - Brigittenauer Lände - Floridsdorfer Brücke - Fultonstrasse - Praterstern - Heldenplatz
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:07 - 22:28
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: It was raining a little bit. But that was enough to keep the people away. The street was slippery so we decided against a second round.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 800
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Schloßbrücke - Schönbrunner Straße - Schloßstraße - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:05 - 23:20
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
  Conny [G] was taking some photos [E].
• Comments: No rain. But a few teenager which were shouting loud how good skateboarders are and so on. Hey kids, get a life. We need no war between inline skater and skateboarder. Tolerance and environmental protection (they destroyed some glass bottles) is so easy.
  Back to topic: We had one german guest acting as ordner [E].
  And a jogger was running with us. I don't know if he made the whole tour.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 800
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Volksgartenstraße - Neustiftgasse - Lerchenfelder Gürtel - Neubau Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:05 - 23:20
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: Some streets are partly closed because they are going to be repaired. The worker couldn't believe their eyes when we came along.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 1000
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Hadikgasse - St.-Veiter-Brücke - Hietzinger Kai - Schönbrunner Straße - Schloßstraße - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:50
• Distance: about 23 km
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
  I thought that Conny [G] was taking some photos, but I didn't find them on his page.
• Comments: This time it was a half marathon distance. (about 23 km) We did it in one hour and fifty minutes because we made some breaks. Some pedestrians and a few car driver were enthusiasted about our demonstration. Some car drivers (maybe the few who were stuck in the traffic jam) weren't happy about that, but most of the skater seem to enjoy it. Even if they were tired after that tour. But some found a lift offered by others. A few other persons stopped along the Hadikgasse and used one of the bridges to get on the other side. They were waiting there for the crowd coming along the Hietzinger Kai and joined us when we passed them. That's fine for those who weren't able to do the long tour or needed some rest. We had one hand biker (here and here) who did the whole tour. One young person were not able to skate but joined us the whole tour.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 800
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Salztorbrücke - Obere Donaustraße - Brigittenauer Lände - Klosterneuburger Straße - Lorenz-Müller-Gasse - Adalbert-Stifter-Straße - Floridsdorfer Brücke - Floridsdorfer Hauptstraße - An der oberen Alten Donau - Fultonstraße - Bessemerstraße - Siegfriedgasse - Andreas-Hofer-Straße - Sebastian-Kohl-Gasse - Leopoldauer Straße - Siegfriedgasse - Bessemerstraße - Fultonstraße - An der oberen Alten Donau - Schöpfleuthnergasse - Matthäus-Jiszda-Straße - Floridsdorfer Hauptstraße - Floridsdorfer Brücke - Adalbert-Stifter-Straße - Lorenz-Müller-Gasse - Gunoldstraße - Parallelstraße zur Heiligenstädter Lände - Spittelauer Lände - Roßauer Lände - Türkenstraße - Hörlgasse - Universitätsstraße - Landesgerichtsstraße - Auerspergstraße - Museumstraße - Museumsplatz - Babenbergerstraße - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 00:20 (with a break which took about 20 minutes)
• Distance: 23,9 km (according to the police [E])
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: Our longest tour (based on time or distance). Some stupid people walked through the crowd. They wanted to cross the street, but why can't they wait until we passed them?
  The Grüne Alternative Floridsdorf [G], a part of the Grüne Wien [G], which is located in Floridsdorf (the district of Vienna we were visiting this night), were distributing paper sheets with information about the actual route (nice idea!) and some (political) information about their district. The same group served refreshments (take a look at this, this and this) during the break (which took about 20 minutes) at the ART 4 U (a location for cultural events). Thanks for that. Update: The Grüne Alternative Floridsdorf [G] created a short article [G] about this event.
  A person complained that I didn't make a photo of him. Finally I got him. (It's the man in the centre showing the victory sign. He seems to be happy about the photo.)
  If you would like to appear on a photo, ask me. I'm usually wearing a ordner [E] dress, a white helmet and a digital camera [E]. That looks like the person standing on the right side on this picture. Hey, that's me, but where's my camera gone? ;)
  Ernst is testing the condition of the road. He seems to like that, because three weeks ago he did the same. ;)
  Skater are helpful persons. This one helps a cyclist by pushing her. ;)
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 700
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Hadikgasse - St.-Veiter-Brücke - Hietzinger Kai - Schönbrunner Straße - Schloßstraße - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:50
• Distance: 25,1 km (according to the police [E])
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: Some people couldn't find a wastebasket and dropped their garbage on the floor. Shame on you. No, they were not skating with us.
  One person was so fascinated about our tour that she took some photos.
  Someone wanted me to photograph him. So I took two pictures of him. Enjoy.
  It's a pity that a few car driver can't wait until we passed them. They try to drive through the crowd of skater and often an ordner [E] has to stop in front of them and stay there until all skater are away. The car driver try to argument that they are in a hurry and so on. What the hell are they doing so that they can't wait about ten minutes?
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 1500
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Liechtensteinstraße - Alserbachstraße - Julius-Tandler-Platz - Alserbachstraße - Roßauer Lände - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Dominikanerbastei - Rosenbursenstraße - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Gumpendorfer Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Mariahilfer Straße - Babenbergerstraße - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:10 - 23:55 (with a break which took about 10 minutes)
• Distance: 20 km (according to the police [E])
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: The route was mainly the route of the Vienna Inline Marathon 2000 [E] which was done two days later. Maybe this is the reason why there were so many skater participating our tour this friday.
  A few persons from the team Salomon [E] were skating with us. Take a look at the photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
  We made a break at the cinema Flotten [G] where the owner of the cinema served water (and many skater were happy about that, as you can see here and here). The skater were invited to watch a film (which will be played in the cinemas in october), but a lot of the skater decided to skate back to our starting point.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 400
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Hadikgasse - St.-Veiter-Brücke - Hietzinger Kai - Schönbrunner Straße - Schloßstraße - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:47
• Distance: about 30 km (according to the police [E], but I can't believe that because we did the same route on 25. 8. 2000 and 8. 9. 2000 and the distance was not so high.)
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: A little bit windy, but no rain. Hm, it seems that this is enough to keep a lot of skater away.
  We had a new police officer who was leading the tour. He made a lot of breaks where we didn't expect them, but that's okay. Not bad for the first time.
  A drunken car driver crashed in a police motorbike. Nobody was hurt. (As far as I know.) To act as ordner [E] seems not to be as harmless as I thought.
  Conny [G] was standing in front of his U4 [G] but he didn't photograph us.
  Worker were putting up two stages for a celebration on the next day.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 300
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Volksgartenstraße - Neustiftgasse - Lerchenfelder Gürtel - Neubau Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Sechshauser Gürtel - Schönbrunner Straße - Rechte Wienzeile / Hamburger Straße - Kärntner Straße - Opernring - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:05 - 23:10
• Distance: 13,5 km (measured by the police [E])
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: Windy, but not cold. The number of skater is decreasing.
  A short route if you compare it with the last ones.
  A skateboarder was skating with us for a short while.
  And a nice person named Lisa Berg made some photos of us.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes

• Number of skater: about 150
• Route: Heldenplatz - Burgring - Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring - Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring - Schottenring - Franz-Josefs-Kai - Stubenring - Parkring - Schubertring - Kärntnerring - Opernring - Operngasse - Friedrichstraße - Linke Wienzeile - Schloßbrücke - Schönbrunner Straße - Schloßstraße - Schönbrunner Straße - Margaretengürtel - Gumpendorfer Gürtel - Mariahilfer Gürtel - Mariahilfer Straße - Babenbergerstraße - Burgring - Heldenplatz
• Time: 22:00 - 23:14
• Distance: about 16 km
• Photos: Can be found here [E]. Comments are welcome (as usual).
• Comments: It took a lot of energy to skate against the wind. But we are skating as long as it doesn't rain.
  This was the last skate tour for this year. I had a lot of fun and I hope you enjoyed it, too. See you next year.
• Acting as ordner [E]: yes