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The former workers' home (residential building) and Hotel Favorita (closed).

The Favoriten workers' home was a people's home or people's house in Vienna (architect Hubert Gessner ), with a political, economic and cultural function.

history

The Favoriten workers' home was located in Vienna's 10th district at Laxenburger Strasse 8-10. Like the Ottakring workers 'home in Vienna, which was destroyed in the February fights in 1934, or the "Maison du peuple" in Brussels (architect Victor Horta ), which also no longer exists, it belongs to the Volksheim building type , which with its combination of political, economic and cultural functions raised the great hopes of the workers' movement represented in the first third of the 20th century.

In Favoriten there was a lack of suitable premises for the activities of the social democratic party and associations. In order to remedy this shortcoming, the association “Arbeiterheim Favoriten” was founded in 1896 in order to collect the funds for the construction of one's own home through various activities.

But only after Victor Adler and the Arbeiter-Zeitung had been won over to support the plan, the project could be realized. Moriz von Kuffner , owner of the Ottakringer brewery , gave a loan.

In a competition, the architect Hubert Gessner (1871-1943) prevailed against colleagues such as Paul and Emil Hoppe , Hans Mayr (1877-1918) and Franz Matuschek and built the Favoriten workers' home between 1901 and 1902 (opening ceremony: September 7, 1902) .

For Gessner this was the first important building in Vienna and on this occasion he became friends with Victor Adler. Although he built numerous buildings for the social democratically ruled city of Vienna and party-affiliated organizations by 1934, he did not become a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party.

For the Social Democrats in Vienna, the modern house was the first workers' home in Vienna; it was used for social and political gatherings. From 1903 onwards, numerous party conferences were held here.

In 1904 and 1912, according to plans by Hubert and Franz Gessner , the workers' home was expanded to include a large hall with a stage, five smaller halls, additional rooms and the first “ Kinderfreunde ” restaurant in Favoriten. A consumer branch and a paying office for the general health insurance fund were also built.

The first Favoritner cinema was also set up here in 1912 . Here were operettas played and other entertainment events arranged as well as various training courses and lectures held.

Large ballroom (for approx. 3000 people) on the upper floor of the hall building once behind the residential building (1903)

In 1927/28, architect Hubert Gessner converted the gymnasium into a 812-seat cinema, which was named Amalien-Kino in honor of the former councilor Amalie Pölzer (1871–1924) and existed until 1982. When sound film equipment was installed in 1930 , the cinema was one of Vienna's 30 sound film theaters .

The last extraordinary party congress before the party was banned took place between October 14 and 26, 1933.

Although members of the Schutzbund met here on February 12, 1934 , there are no records of fighting during the occupation by the police. In the same year the Austrofascists moved in here . In 1938 the district leadership of the National Socialists followed and in 1945 the Soviet headquarters.

On August 13, 1951, the Favoriten workers' home was returned to its original owners, who reopened it in 1952 after renovations. However, the condition of the house deteriorated more and more, so that more and more organizations moved out.

In 1957, floors 3–5 were adapted as a tourist hotel based on the Swedish model . Operator of a bed and breakfast run Hotel Laxenburg the travel agency was Ruefa .

Around 1980 the main hall, which was built in 1902, was demolished and in 1984 considerations began to re-use the house - which a committee of persons called “Save the Favoriten workers' home” called for.

In 1990 planning began for the later conversion into a hotel.

Regular hotel operations have ceased in January 2014.

From October 2015 to July 2017, the Hotel Favorita accommodated around 380 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. In March 2019, the last refugees from the Geriatric Center Am Wienerwald will move to the Hotel Favorita.

literature

  • Joseph Aug (ust) Lux :  The workers' home. In:  The Architect , year 1903, year IX, pp. 14-16. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / arc.
  • Berthold Alt: The first workers 'home - for the 25th anniversary of the workers' home and the district teaching association in Favoriten . Arbeiterheim Favoriten, Vienna 1927. - Full text online (PDF; 1.7 MB) .
  • Dieter Schrage : "The end of modesty". The workers' home in Favoriten / Vienna . In: Olaf Bockhorn (ed.): Industrial history and workers' culture. Contributions to questions about their documentation and museum presentation . Publications of the Institute for Folklore of the University of Vienna, Volume 14, ZDB -ID 1100371-6 . Institute for Folklore, Vienna 1987, pp. 77–85.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Favorita  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lux: Das Arbeiterheim , p. 14.
  2. ↑ All about the film. A new cinema in the Favoriten workers' home. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , No. 36/1928 (XLI. Volume), February 5, 1928, p. 20, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  3. ^ Peter Steinbach (text), district museum Favoriten (photo): About the Baron Karl . Dear Augustin von Favoriten . In: 1st Viennese Sandler operetta Baron Karl . Folder. Sn, s. l. 2014.
  4. ↑ Vienna. (...) 10th district (favorites). Amalien cinema . In: allekinos.com , accessed on November 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ What interests the cinema owner. New sound film cinemas in Vienna. In:  The Cinema Journal. Official organ of the Federation of Wiener Lichtspieltheater and all regional professional associations , No. 1047/1930 (XXIIIth year), 23 August 1930, p. 12, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkj.
  6. ↑ International comfort - without pretension and without sausage: tourist hotel in the Favoriten workers' home. Based on the Swedish model, with many ideas of their own . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 17, 1957, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ Favorites workers' home . In: Austrian Library Association .
  8. ↑ Tweet of the local politician Alfred Hoch
  9. ^ House Favorita - Social: Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreichs ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.samariterbund.net
  10. ↑ Vienna's largest refugee home closes. In: wien.ORF.at. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Among other things, from September 14 to 17, 1928. - 1928 Party Congress . In: Austrian Library Association .

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 51 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 24 ″  E