Ludwig Zatzka

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Ludwig Zatzka

Ludwig Zatzka (born August 25, 1857 in Vienna , † September 14, 1925 in Spital am Semmering , Styria ) was an Austrian architect , city ​​architect and local politician in Karl Lueger's cabinet . His younger brother was the painter Hans Zatzka , he is the great-grandfather of the Viennese actress Hilde Sochor .

Life

education

Zatzka attended secondary school and the building trade school and studied as a visiting student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Friedrich von Schmidt , then he did a practice in the office of his father, the builder Bartholomäus Zatzka (Bartholomäus Zatzka and Sons).

Construction activity

From 1882 to 1892 Zatzka worked as a freelance architect and builder in Vienna, where he realized numerous building projects in the style of late historicism , for example in Breitensee , Hietzing and Neubau :

Church in Teschen
Monastery church of the Marianneum ; based on ideas by Friedrich Schmidt (1886–1888)

Ludwig Zatzka retired from professional life at the beginning of the 20th century, but still carried out a few projects in a few isolated cases until the First World War. In old age Zatzka lived in Spital am Semmering (Styria), where he built the Villa Zatzka in Obere Bahnstrasse and also built other buildings in the village. There he died at the age of 68.

Political activity

From 1889 to 1891, Zatzka was also a councilor for the Christian Social Party in the Breitensee community, which was not yet part of Vienna, and from 1898 to 1918 as a councilor, he was a close associate of Mayor Karl Lueger , of whom he was a close friend. He had a great influence on the municipal building projects of this time, such as the Second Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline , the Lainzer Supply Home and the Vienna Gas and Electricity Works.

In March 1904, the radical MP Josef Gregorig raised accusations against Zatzka that he had influenced the allocation of public contracts and supported real estate transactions from which he had benefited himself and that he had patronized his son-in-law Franz Hütter and caused damage to the city's finances, so that mayor Lueger had to set up a commission of inquiry "to examine the Gregorig-Zatzka matter". The commission found nothing illegal in Zatzka's actions, but stated that he had come very close to conflicts of interest.

Art collection

In addition to his work as a builder and politician, Zatzka was also an important art collector of medieval bronzes (for example by Niccolò Roccatagliata ) and ivory works. When he tried to sell a large part of his collection in times of need after the First World War, he became the one hand, the victim of fraudsters, on the other hand the global economic crisis .

Awards

Because of his merits, a park (Hütteldorfer Strasse / Kendlerstrasse) in Vienna was named after Zatzka. His importance as a local politician is illustrated by awards and medals: Knight of the Franz Joseph Order , Commander's Cross of the Papal New Year's Eve , Jubilee Medal 1898, honorary citizen of the municipality of Spital am Semmering in Styria, Order of the Iron Crown III. Class (but without elevation to the nobility) and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Gregory .

Mausoleum of the Ludwig Zatzka family at Hietzingen cemetery

Zatzka received a funeral by the Christian Social Party , attended by many important politicians, such as u. a. Leopold Kunschak , took part. The mausoleum of the Zatzka family built by Zatzka is located at the Hietzinger Friedhof .

literature

  • Heinrich May: Breitensee in old u. new time . Self-published by the author, Vienna 1933
  • Hans Schinner: Breitensee - From the village to the big city parish. Wiener Dom-Verlag, Vienna 1976 ISBN 3-85351-081-7
  • Obituary . Austrian construction newspaper, January 1925
  • Bernhard Reismann: History of the community Spital am Semmering. Spital am Semmering 1997
  • Hilde Sochor : "Children, Kitchen, Stage", Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 9783850027687

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Zatzka  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architecture lexicon of the Architekturzentrum Wien
  2. ^ John W. Boyer: Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897-1918. University Of Chicago Press, 1998.
  3. ^ Neue Freie Presse , January 2, 1923
personal data
SURNAME Zatzka, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Breitensee (Vienna)
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1925
Place of death Spital am Semmering