Liesing office building

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Liesing office building

The Amtshaus Liesing is the seat of the municipal district office of the 23rd district of Vienna , Liesing . It is located at Perchtoldsdorfer Straße 2.

Location and architecture

The listed building is located in the center of the Liesing district . In its vicinity there are other public buildings such as the House of Encounter, Liesing Castle and Liesinger Bad. The office building is the work of Fellner & Helmer , which is best known for its theater buildings. Its three-storey, monumental facade is designed in neo-renaissance style with neo-baroque elements. On the main facade, which is closed at the top by a large gable with a coat of arms relief, there is a column portal with allegorical female figures. A high ridge with clocks is attached to the mansard roof . The rectangular ballroom of the Amtshaus has oak paneling with metal covers in the style of the Vienna Secession and canvas pictures with portraits of the Liesingen mayors.

history

The stone from the archway of the Färbermühle, the previous building of the district office.

In the place of the building there was a steg mill or dye mill from the Middle Ages until 1898 . (Opposite the current building, the Färbermühlgasse has been reminiscent of the old mill since 1954. ) In 1903/1904, today's Liesing administrative building was built here as Liesing's town hall , although Liesing was only elevated to the status of town two years after construction began on October 2, 1905 were. A stone with the inscription 1588, which comes from the dye mill, was built into the stairwell. After the city was incorporated in the course of the enlargement of Vienna by the National Socialists in autumn 1938, the town hall was initially useless. After the end of the Second World War , it was finally expanded in 1954 to become the administrative center of the newly formed 23rd district . Extensive renovation and modernization work took place from 2003 to 2007 .

literature

  • Maximilian Stony: 100 Years of the Liesing Office - A Building through the Ages , self-published 2004, ISBN 3-200-00033-3 .

Web links

Commons : Amtshaus Liesing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 722.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 5 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 56 ″  E