Office building for the 21st district

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District Office Floridsdorf, 2015
kk Amtshaus Floridsdorf ( BH ; today: District Court Floridsdorf) of the large community of Floridsdorf (1894/95)
Town hall of the city of Floridsdorf, 1902/1903
left: District Office, former Floridsdorfer Markt, now bus and tram stops
Memorial plaque at the main portal of the district office

The municipal district office for the 21st district in Vienna , also the district office Floridsdorf , is located in the center of the Floridsdorf district at the address Am Spitz 1 .

Location

In the center of Floridsdorf, Floridsdorfer Hauptstrasse forks into two historic highways, Prager Strasse (left) and Brünner Strasse . Since the two streets run at an acute angle to each other, the area between them has long been called the pointed . When the local community of Am Spitz, founded there in 1804, was united with the former community of Floridsdorf in 1874 , their name was kept on the Am Spitz square , in the center of which the later district office was built as the town hall of Floridsdorf.

history

In Jedlersdorf am Spitz there was a one-story inn, which was a shelter for the population on the first floor when the Danube flooded . This Spitz inn served from 1887 as the parish hall of the local parish of Floridsdorf and from 1894 to the handover of the newly built kk Amtshaus Floridsdorf (today: District Court Floridsdorf , Rechtsgasse  4-6) as the parish hall of the large parish and city Floridsdorf united localities. At the rear, the front Floridsdorfer market, which in 1926 was Gemeindebau Schlingerhof was moved.

1901–1903 under the last mayor, Anton Anderer (1857–1936), and the deputy mayor and head of the building committee, Franz Hoß , the Floridsdorf town hall was built in place of the inn. Previously, the Imperial and Royal Governor of Austria under the Enns , Erich von Kielmansegg , had the intention, if Vienna succeeded in achieving “imperial immediacy” (leaving Lower Austria and being directly subordinate to the Imperial and Royal Government), to make Floridsdorf the capital of Lower Austria do. When the accordingly representative town hall was built, however, the Viennese mayor Karl Lueger, in consultation with mayor Anderer, succeeded in politically agreeing the incorporation of Floridsdorf into Vienna. This regulation was passed by the Lower Austrian Landtag in December 1904 and put into effect one year later.

With the incorporation of Floridsdorf, the building became the municipal district office . This was also where the offices of the district administration were located , which in 1897 had been moved from Groß-Enzersdorf to Floridsdorf (kk Amtshaus, Rechtsgasse 4-6) at Kielmansegg's instigation . Since 1905, with the exception of the dictatorship from 1934–1945, the district head of the 21st district has also resided there . The building was bombed during World War II.

In the last days of the war, on April 8, 1945, soldiers Karl Biedermann , Alfred Huth and Rudolf Raschke , who organized resistance to NS orders, were hanged in front of the district office. The district office was rebuilt in a simplified manner in the following years, but the destroyed clock tower was no longer manufactured.

architecture

It is a powerful, four-storey, free-standing baroque-classicist building with a mansard roof, which demonstrates the self-confidence of the Floridsdorf politicians at the time, based on an award-winning competition design by the architects brothers Josef and Anton Drexler , built with city ​​architect Alois Frömml . The central main entrance with an Ionic temple front is located on the southern front. Subsequently, rounded building fronts lead into the facades on Prager and Brünner Strasse, on the left with figures by Alexander Illitsch , on the right with figures by Georg Leisek .

On the side and rear fronts - in line with the tradition of the market and inn at this location - retail shops and restaurants are housed on the ground floor. A plaster relief by Georg Leisek can be seen in the foyer, representing the last meeting of the independent Floridsdorf municipal council. A tapestry by Maximilian Florian from 1956 is located in the wedding hall .

literature

Web links

Commons : District Office Floridsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Little Chronicle. (...) Office building in Floridsdorf. In:  Wiener Zeitung , supplement Wiener Abendpost , No. 178/1896, August 4, 1896, p. 2, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  2. ^ Rudolf Till : Viennese projects and utopias. Unrealized Vienna plans from three centuries . Series title: Wiener Heimatkunde . Jugend und Volk, Vienna (among others) 1972, ISBN 3-7141-6202-X , p. 51.
  3. a b Location of the district office in the plan for war damage around 1946 , accessed on March 30, 2018.
  4. City of Vienna Tasks and services of the municipal district offices of the City of Vienna, accessed on September 16, 2009.

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 28.5 "  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 50.8"  E