Public lavatory in the Volksgarten

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Toilet facility in the Volksgarten

The public lavatory in the Volksgarten is located in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . It is available as a component of the Public Garden is under monument protection .

history

The toilet facility was built in 1884 as part of the second expansion of the Volksgarten by the Wilhelm Beetz company . In 1880, the Berlin Beetz began to transfer the concept of the public toilet, previously unknown in Vienna, from Berlin.

In September 1883, the public lavatory on Landstraßer Hauptstrasse was the first such facility in Vienna, which, according to contemporary portrayals, was “practical, very comfortable and luxuriously equipped” and whose use with 4 cruisers or 2 cruisers was felt to be “extremely cheap” . Beetz then asked for permission to erect it in the Volksgarten, which as part of the Hofburg belonged to the imperial state property and one of the best-visited places in the city center because it had been accessible to ordinary people since 1823.

Already on July 24th, 1883, the municipal council decided the installation in the Volksgarten was contractually agreed and the contract with the Hofärar was also concluded. The plant was put into operation on May 21, 1884.

The system was later renewed. In 1907 the toilet facility - together with all other Beetz'schen necessities - was transferred to the ownership of the municipality, but the operating contract was extended until 1940. The facility was one of the last to be manned by a toilet lady. Today there are again some public lavatories in Vienna that are occupied by toilet women. In addition, there are at least 13 other toilets in Vienna that are listed as historical monuments.

architecture

Located about 20 meters behind the back of the Theseus temple , the lavatory is a small wooden-paneled pavilion , on a rectangular floor plan, with a long-sided porch with a pent roof . There is an entrance on each of the two sides. The pavilion itself was covered with a tent roof with skylights . As further architectural features, the toilet facility has a console frieze and zinc sheet roofing.

literature

  • Peter Payer: Indispensable props of the big city: a cultural history of the public lavatories in Vienna. Löcker, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-85409-323-7 .

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 Wilhelm Beetz. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007. accessed on May 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Beetz , beetz.at, accessed 30 May 2014.
  4. ↑ In the 19th century, toilet still referred to clothing, then to physical cleanliness, with which the name was then transferred to the facilities where you can “freshen up”.
  5. ^ Wiener Sonntagsblatt of September 23, 1883; quoted in Wilhelm Beetz , beetz.at - on the opening of the first system.
  6. ↑ cf. The municipal administration of the imperial capital and residence city of Vienna: Report of the mayor. Section C. Lounges. Published 1885, there p. 141 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ↑ a b Lit. Payer: Indispensable props , 2000, p. 68.
  8. ↑ Lit. Payer: Indispensable props , 2000, p. 197.
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ↑. Günther Buchinger, Gerd Pichler u. a .: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna. 1st district - Inner City. Berger & Söhne, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , pp. 965 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 31.5 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 41.8"  E