Office building for the 6th and 7th district

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Municipal District Office for the 6th and 7th district

The municipal district office for the 6th and 7th district is under monument protection ( list entry standing) administration building of the municipality of Vienna .

Building

The building in Vienna 7th, Hermanngasse 24–26, in the Neubau district , was built in 1909/1910 according to plans by Josef Pürzl and Moritz Servé as a four-storey building in the neo-baroque style with decorations of Art Nouveau . Above the main entrance, facing Kandlgasse, is a tower-like structure in which there is a public clock supervised by Municipal Department 33 .

The anteroom has a stucco ribbed ceiling with circular motifs. The staircase was designed as a generous Art Nouveau staircase with straight stairs, marble balustrades and ornamental wrought iron bars as well as ornamental Art Nouveau glass windows.

Since Hermanngasse bends twice at right angles a short distance apart in the area of ​​the office building, the district office represents a corner building with both fronts on the same street, which is rare in Vienna.

Departments

The district office as such is subordinate to the magistrate director, not the district council.

In addition to the elected by the district council elections Bezirksvorstehung the district various municipal departments of the city administration are settled with their services here:

  • Registration, passport and lost property service
  • Parking sticker for the 6th and 7th district
  • Municipal Department 3 - Employee Protection and Occupational Health Promotion
  • Municipal Department 6 - Accounting Office with an accounting department and a city treasury

Group watch new building

Former group guard new building, now security competence center

In the district office for the 6th and 7th districts, the new group watch for the professional fire brigade in Vienna had been stationed since August 20, 1910, with a crew of six and a fire fighting vehicle .

During the first years of the First Republic , exhibits from the Fire Brigade Museum were stored in these premises .

According to the plans for a reorganization of the Vienna fire brigade's locations, which became known in February 2012, the fire station was closed and handed over to the “Vienna Helpers” on April 12, 2012, in order to be expanded into a security competence center like the former Brigittenau fire station become.

literature

  • DEHIO Vienna - II. To IX. and XX. District , Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8

Web links

Commons : Mariahilf and Neubau district office  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/596.htm
  2. ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  3. http://www.firefighter.at/site/historisches/article/758.html
  4. http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2012/02/16015.html
  5. http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2012/04/12020.html

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 10 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 50 ″  E