Railway workers' home Vienna
The railway workers' home in Vienna was built as a residential building with a congress center for the Association of Railway Workers. Until 2010 the union vida (until 2006 union of railway workers) was based here.
The brothers Hubert Gessner and Franz Gessner , who worked as architects , built the railroader's home for the railway workers' association at the intersection of Margaretenstrasse 166 and Margaretengürtel 136 in 1912/13 - which was opened on December 7, 1913.
The facades are adorned with the impellers, the symbol of the railway , and an allegorical representation of the Semmering Railway .
On September 10, 1944, the building was damaged by an air raid and was rebuilt in 1945 and 1946 by Leopold Scheibl . From 1961 to 1963 the facade on the ground floor was redesigned by Ferdinand Riedl (1920–2009). In addition, the “Kongresshaus Wien” was added to Margaretengürtel 138, which ceased operations in April 2007 and gave way to a residential building.
In most of the ground floor there are currently facilities of the ninth house .
The railroader's home still has the historic event hall, which once offered space for around 270 people and was heavily visited from 1919 to August 28, 1967, when the railroader's home cinema and railroader's home Lichtspiele were used. Later it served for some time as a storage room and from 1991 as a rehearsal stage for the Volkstheater .
Since autumn 2005 this hall has been used by the Volkstheater ("Volkstheater Hundsturm") as a branch. Since 2015, with Anna Badora taking up directorship at the Volkstheater, there has been a regular repertoire here (venue name "Volx / Margareten").
Web links
- Railway workers' home. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nineerhaus website. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ artminutes association: KinTheTop. (...) Event room Eisenbahnerheim (1913-1919) . In: kinthetop.at , accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ^ Volx / Margareten. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 10 " N , 16 ° 20 ′ 41" E