Public lavatory on the Parkring

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Public lavatory on the Parkring

The public restroom at the park ring is a public convenience "for persons of both sexes" in the first Viennese district Inner City under monument stands. It is located at the Stadtpark , on the outward side of the Parkring , at the intersection with Weiskirchnerstraße .

History and architecture

The former waiting halls of the Viennese horse tramway served as a model for the Beetz toilet pavilions

The rectangular iron-and-glass toilet pavilion, built in the Secessionist style, was designed by Viennese entrepreneur Wilhelm Beetz in the early 1880s . For this purpose, he submitted a request to the Viennese magistrate as early as 1880. At that time, Beetz offered to manufacture iron systems instead of the wooden ones previously used. For better camouflage - and in the sense of a uniform street furniture as possible - these should be implemented in the form of the waiting halls of the Viennese horse tramway . These were also built using prefabricated elements from the late 1870s.

Although some of the public lavatories met with violent rejection from the population, Beetz received approval for a test property on July 24, 1883 and was able to open the first new type of facility on Landstrasser Hauptstrasse on September 23, 1883 . The "Wiener Sonntagsblatt" wrote that "this closet is very practical, very comfortable and luxuriously furnished and the price for using it (4 kr and 2 kr) is extremely cheap".

The new toilet consisted of four cabins for men, four cabins for women, six piss stalls and a heated room for the guard. This type subsequently became the “classic” model for aboveground lavatories, which eventually found widespread use throughout Vienna and in some cases beyond. The constructions were based on a brick substructure with a stone base. Under the building there was a one and a half meter high cellar that housed the installations and a coke oven. The walls were covered with wooden formwork on the inside, the filling walls of the iron outer skin had window sections with crossed bars. Under the main cornice was a wide, largely glazed frieze. On the hipped roof was an elongated wooden lantern with hinged windows. The eaves were decorated with sheet metal ornaments that were repeated on the lantern. There were first and second class cabins, with the first class also having a hand wash basin, a mirror and a spittoon . Soap, towels, combs and brushes could be borrowed from the guard. After the currency conversion in 1892 , the tariff was ten and six hellers respectively .

At the end of 1903 Beetz was already operating 58 toilets of this type in Vienna alone, and by 1910 their number rose to 73. The construction costs for the largest of the three models offered by Beetz were 12,000 crowns each. There were 15 of these on the Ringstrasse alone . The toilet pavilion on Parkring was built in 1901 and is the only remaining object of its kind in the inner city. However (as of 2016) there are still nine similar systems in the other districts, which are also listed:

literature

  • Günther Buchinger; Gerd Pichler u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. 1st district - Inner City . 1st edition. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , p. 964 .

Web links

Commons : Needs institution (Wien 01, Parkring, ObjektID: 124558)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 28, 2013 (PDF).
  2. ↑ a b c Historic Viennese facilities at wien-bilder.at, accessed on August 10, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Peter Payer: Be modern and just not seem , article from May 15, 2015 at http://diepresse.com, accessed on August 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Plan of an underground lavatory for women and men, 1904 at technischesmuseum.at, accessed on August 11, 2016
  5. ↑ From the latrine to the “roadbag” on wienerzeitung.at, accessed on August 10, 2016
  6. ^ Entry on Wilhelm Beetz in the architects' dictionary, accessed on August 10, 2016
  7. ^ Viennese needs (website about public toilet facilities in Vienna), accessed on November 18, 2011

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '24.7 "  N , 16 ° 22' 51.2"  E