Arcade houses
The arcade houses are an ensemble around the town hall on Ringstrasse in the 1st district of the inner city . Built in the Wilhelminian era , they are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Center of Vienna . Their arcades are also called the Rathauspassagen .
location
Arcades of the house at Reichsratsstrasse 7–9
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Arcades of the building at Felderstrasse 6–8
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The arcade houses are the houses on Rathausplatz on both sides of the town hall, between Doblhoffgasse and Universitätsstraße , with the arcades on Rathausplatz and Reichsratsstraße behind the parliament and the university, as well as on Lichtenfelsgasse and Felderstraße on the sides of the town hall and Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz behind ( double line ). The sides of the houses are on Rathausstrasse and Landesgerichtsstrasse behind the town hall, and Stadiongasse , Bartensteingasse , Grillparzerstrasse , Ebendorferstrasse and Liebiggasse between the blocks.
history
At the time of the town hall building from 1872–1883, which was rebuilt in the area of the city wall that was razed in 1858–1865 , the immediate surroundings were also designed. The city expansion fund decided on which fronts in front of the high ground floor and possibly a mezzanine (basement) along the streets arcades should be built. From this design element, the houses around the town hall are called arcade houses . The town hall district was a residential building for upper-class citizens and officials for whom the Ringstrasse palaces were too expensive.
The concept was carried out by Franz Ritter von Neumann junior , an employee of the town hall architect Friedrich Schmidt , and mostly built by the Union-Baugesellschaft , so that a homogeneous appearance of the assemblies was guaranteed. The individual houses are all in the main Ringstrasse style with a renaissance style, with a rough block imitation ( rustication ) and neo-baroque ornamentation. The houses at Rathausplatz No. 2–4 and partly also No. 7–9 , the oldest of these houses, have old German (neo-Gothic) elements. The last of the houses, Felderstrasse No. 6–8 , was not built until 1913–1918 in the arcade area in neo-Gothic style and in the corner tower with Art Nouveau elements.
The house at Felderstrasse No. 2 was lost due to war damage and was rebuilt in a modified form, but its arcades were preserved. The other houses are original. The Wehrmann in Eisen is also in the arcades at Felderstrasse 6–8 (MA18, MOMA) .
The arcade houses
The arcade houses are (only the addresses with the arcades are mentioned, chronologically with the executing architects):
Rathausplatz 7–9 / Lichtenfelsgasse 1–3
Schmidt / Neumann , 1877–1878
Rathausplatz 2 / Felderstrasse 2–4 (Felderhaus)
Neumann , 1880–1883; san. Boltenstern 1964
Rathausplatz 3, 4
Neumann , 1880–1883
Reichsratsstrasse 15–17
Tischler / Stiassny , 1881–1889
Reichsratsstrasse 7–9
Neumann , 1883–1884
Reichsratsstrasse 11–13
Förster / Milch , 1883–1887
Lichtenfelsgasse 5–7
Neumann , 1883 / Stiassny , 1888
Felderstrasse 6–8 (town planning house)
Kirstein , 1913–1918
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Arcade houses in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Arcade houses at the town hall. Vienna 1, Rathausplatz 2, 3, 4 and 7, 8, 9. In: Peter Haiko, Renata Kassal-Mikula: Friedrich von Schmidt. (1825-1891). A Gothic rationalist (= Historical Museum of the City of Vienna. Special exhibition 148). Museums of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85202-102-2 , pp. 134–141.