Workers' home Ottakring

The Ottakring workers 'home in Vienna was built between 1905 and 1907 by the Ottakring party organization of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP).

Until its destruction in the February uprising in 1934, it functioned as an important event and cultural center for the 16th district of Vienna, Ottakring . The building complex at Kreitnergasse 29–33 contained office and meeting rooms as well as a large theater hall for 1,500 people and 40 apartments. The construction was mainly financed by a loan from the Ottakringer Brewery , which was given the monopoly of serving beer in the restaurant of the event center. Due to a conflict between the workers and the builder, a strike broke out during the construction work, which was led by the later ÖGB President Johann Böhm .

On the night of February 12-13, 1934, the Ottakring workers' home, a symbol of the opposition Social Democrats, was attacked by police and military units and largely destroyed. As a result, the Austro-Fascist regime prompted the rapid demolition of the building complex and the construction of a residential building completed in 1936 by Wiener Städtische Versicherung .

literature

• Helmut Weihsmann: Das Rote Wien - Social Democratic Architecture and Local Politics 1919–1934 , Edition traces, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85371-181-2 .

Web links

• Workers' home Ottakring. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 32 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 24 ″  E