Worker's Cottage Favorites

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Worker's Cottage Favorites

The worker's cottage , then Emperor Franz Josef Jubilee Foundation called, is a flat area with 18 houses in the 10th  Vienna district favorites . The postal address is Absberggasse 16-20, the area is located between Absberggasse, Puchsbaumgasse , Schrankenberggasse and Kiesewettergasse . This type of working-class family house was unusual in shape for Vienna until then and remained unique for a long time. The complex was built from 1884 to 1886 according to the plans of the architect Josef Unger . This assembly is now a listed building .

Nearby, also in Absberggasse, is the well-known anchor bread factory .

Building history and description

In 1884, under the direction of the architect Maximilian Steiner, the social “Association for Workers' Houses” with its headquarters in Kiesewettergasse was founded and the well-known architect Josef Unger was commissioned to plan a model settlement. According to his ideas, a small group of workers' houses was planned and built in Favoriten, where the building sites were still very cheap at that time. This settlement was the oldest social housing in Vienna. The cottage settlements or row houses in England with small front gardens or backyards served as a model . Since Josef Unger was involved in railway construction full-time, this Favoritner residential complex bears a clear resemblance to the style of the Austrian train station and industrial buildings of the time . The first 12 houses were completed as early as 1884, and then another six by 1886. The northern part of the area intended for this was built up.

Brand new for the former Viennese tenement was -Wohnkultur that the houses were given a direct internal connection for water and also the lavatories were equipped with running water. This was in contrast to the outlet fountains in Hof or the so-called Bassenas in the corridors, which were common at the time, especially in the suburbs . Each house was intended for two to three families or for an extended family with several earners. The living space per unit was between 67.3 and 97.5 m², the garden area between 29 and 68 m².

Within 25 years, the residents should be able to purchase their house as property through their rent and an additional building cost surcharge. In the early days, the tenants were mainly railway employees.

Originally, twice as many residential units, namely 36, were planned, which would also have built up the southern part of the area. In fact, only half of the above-mentioned 18 houses were built. The reason was that there were not enough interested parties who could afford both the interest and the supplement with their wages. Therefore, in 1886, the association was transferred to the “Kaiser Franz Josef Jubilee Foundation ”, which had been founded shortly before , and the rental contracts were then converted into the normal ones.

  • Absberggasse 16-20

  • Puchsbaumgasse 2–16

  • Schrankenbergg. 15-19

  • Kiesewettergasse 3–15

literature

  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Favorites. Between yesterday and tomorrow. Mohl Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901761-38-1 , pp. 92–93.
  • Maria Kinz: Favorites worth living in. J&V Edition Wien, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85058-083-0 , pp. 100-101.

Web links

Commons : Workers Cottage Favorites  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 21 ″  E