Gaaden hunting lodge

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The hunting lodge Gaaden is located in the northern part of a 360 hectare hunting area south of the municipality of Gaaden in the Vienna Woods .

Gaaden hunting lodge based on plans by Emanuel von Seidl
Hall with fireplace
Hunting lodge - exterior view

history

Around 1910, Karl von Škoda had the classicist hunting lodge built according to plans by the Munich architect Emanuel von Seidl .

After Karl von Skoda died in 1929, the Belgian legation secretary Baron van der Eist rented a room in Skoda Castle in the early 1930s.

Sale of the castle to Ferdinand Pölzl

In 1941 Emil von Skoda sold the property to the Pölzl family from Vienna.

Confiscated by the Soviets

At the end of the war, the Soviet troops confiscated the vacant palace as well as the buildings and land belonging to it and transferred the right of disposal to the local chief appointed by them.

Gaaden Castle as a holiday home

In the post-war years, the hunting lodge was used as a children's home under the direction of Moritz Fels-Margulies - a rental agreement was concluded with the authorized representative of the City of Vienna - the monthly rent was 200 schillings. From 1948 to 1955, more than 1,000 children spent the summer months at Gaaden Castle. During these years the facility was also used by thousands of adults for recreation.

"Back then, children's activities had a high social value, as the aim was to restore the normally undernourished offspring through good food. The whole pride of the supervisory organizations was expressed in the fact that the children were given several kilos of weight gain back to their parents after the recovery stay Accordingly, in Gaaden, too, the focus was on serving copious meals. "

“Almost every day there was pastries, fruit, chocolate, honey bread, and on Sunday [...] schnitzel, french fries, fruit, fine pastries (often even from Demel) and chocolate. "

"The Skoda Castle was not only an architecturally remarkable and very beautiful example of the villa building style of the 1920s, but was also located in the middle of a large property with meadows, orchards, a forest with silver firs, a bathing pond and playgrounds. Baron Skoda also had a had an elegant winter garden built, the fadization that quickly occurs in children could be prevented even in bad weather. "

Returned to Ferdinand Pölzl in 1955

Grave of the Pölzl family at the Gaadner Friedhof

After the State Treaty was signed in 1955, the property returned to the Pölzl family. In this context, Ferdinand Pölzl , Mr. Rudolf Hautmann (President of the Cultural Association of Police Officers), Moritz Fels-Margulies and Margarete Reinelt (General Secretary in the Cultural Association of Police Officers) signed two handover protocols on June 6 and 22, 1955.

In the 1930s, the Pölzl family founded a company for the manufacture of technical precision items in Vienna - after the destruction of the two factories in Favoriten and Inzersdorf during the last weeks of the war, the Pölzl company started selling rolling bearings. In 1949, the Pölzl company began producing roller bearings in Vienna's 3rd district. At the end of 1951, the company with the name AKF - Allgemeine Kugellagerfabrik Ges.mbH already employs 200 people.

On the recommendation of public authorities, the "Allgemeine Kugellagerfabrik Ges.mbH" bought the publicly administered company "Globus Waldgatter" in Berndorf in 1956 . The basis for the purchase was the fact that blacksmithing specialists were employed in this company, as well as the promise that there would be an unlimited supply of labor in this area.

Ferdinand Pölzl has the ambitious plan to turn the backward USIA company into the most modern production facility for ball bearings in Europe. In July 1957, the conversion and renovation work started. Ferdinand Pölzl dies on September 18, 1967 and with him the leading force of the company is lost. His wife and brother are not interested in running the company. The "AKF" is sold by the Pölzl family to the company " Kugelfischer Georg Schäfer & Co in Schweinfurt ", with whom there have been good business relationships and close, friendly contacts for years. AKF thus becomes a 100% subsidiary of the Kugelfischer company and thus a member of a global group.

Usage agreement with the City of Vienna

On December 21, 1956, an agreement was signed between the owner of the property and the City of Vienna, which obliges the owner to “refrain from any use other than for forestry and hunting purposes”.

modification

The property's buildings, which were partially destroyed during the Second World War , were rebuilt in 1960–65.

New owner

The property is acquired by Anton Fröschl, a manager of Allgemeine Kugellagerfabrik Ges.mbH, and transferred to Thomas Fröschl, the current owner, by means of a deed of gift in 1996.

architecture

Since the property is privately owned and not accessible to the public, a description from 1911 is used here:

main building

“The Skoda hunting lodge is a building that from the outset was allowed to have a representative, but not an urban character. A task that was very important to the artist insofar as his deep love for nature and his gift of connecting the house with nature in fine transitions could develop freely. The castle is located on a very inexpensive hill. The cardinal points and the views were the first moments that determined and enlivened the floor plan. The way in which the flower-adorned staircase connects the garden with the house in the terrace view from below will be recognized as extremely artistic and sensitive. The large view of the garden shows the taste with which the low motifs (covered terrace) are placed in front of the high (the house wall), merging the strict vertical surface of the outer wall with the natural life in the garden as freely and casually as possible. "

Outbuildings

“The care (...) given to the other buildings belonging to the castle can be seen from the park entrance and the delightful forester's house. In the way in which the elongated octagonal window sits in the gable surface of the latter, for example, there is a fine architectural feeling, as does the emphasis on the entrance with stairs and door. "

Gate system entrance

The gate system was built in the early 1960s. The gate system is lined with various statues (allegories of the spring and summer seasons), and in the driveway on Siegenfelder Strasse there is a statue of St. Catherine from the 18th century.

hunt

The approximately 360 hectare fenced property is currently managed by the forest and district administration "Gut Waldhof" and has an excellent population of black deer, red deer, roe deer and fallow deer. All raised stands can be reached by hunting vehicle via forest roads.

On the property is the Tennberg (also: Tenneberg) with a height of 473  m above sea level. A.

The site has been a restricted forest area for a limited period until 2019 and is therefore not open to the public.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hunting lodge Ritter v. Skoda in Gaaden near Vienna. In: Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung, year 1911, no. 37/1911 (XXVIII. Year), pp. 288 f., 291 (main part) as well as plates 69–71. (Online at ANNO)
  2. ↑ http://gaaden.at/uploads/contenteditor/files/geschichte/geschichte-2.pdf , p. 10
  3. ↑ http://gaaden.at/uploads/contenteditor/files/geschichte/geschichte-2.pdf , p. 11
  4. ↑ a b c d e Hans Hautmann: The cultural association of police officers . Gaaden and the conflict with the owner. In: Alfred Klahr Society - Messages . 19th year, no. 4 , December 2012, p. 3 ff . ( pdf [accessed November 20, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Margarete Reinelt, Kinderheim Gaaden, in: Mitteilungen der Kulturvereinigung der Polizeibediensteten, 2nd year, no. 1, January 1949, p. 3.
  6. ^ A b Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial legacy of Lower Austria: history, technology, architecture . Böhlau, 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0 , p. 674 ff .
  7. ^ Land register, EZ 422, KG 16107 Gaaden
  8. ↑ a b Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria . Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2, M to Z. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , p. 472 .
  9. ^ State Parliament of Lower Austria, IX. Legislative period III. Session 11th session on March 9, 1972
  10. ^ Land register, EZ 422, KG 16107 Gaaden
  11. ^ Wilhelm Michel: New work by Emanuel von Seidl. In: Alexander Koch (Ed.): Interior decoration. The entire art of living in pictures and words. Issue 1.1911, XXII. Year, ISSN  2195-6340 . Verlagsanstalt Koch, Darmstadt 1911, pp. 39–48.
  12. ^ A b Wilhelm Michel: New work by Emanuel von Seidl. In: Alexander Koch (Ed.): Interior decoration. The entire art of living in pictures and words. Issue 1.1911, XXII. Year, ISSN  2195-6340 . Verlagsanstalt Koch, Darmstadt 1911, pp. 43–44.
  13. ^ Gut Waldhof ( Memento of May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 46.4 ″  N , 16 ° 12 ′ 19.3 ″  E