Davidhof

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Davidhof
location
Address: Effingergasse 31-35
District: Ottakring
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '9.6 "  N , 16 ° 18' 50.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '9.6 "  N , 16 ° 18' 50.6"  E
Architecture and art
Construction time: 1926-1927
Apartments: 242
Architects: Walter Broßmann , Alfred Keller
Named after: Anton David
Cultural property register of the city of Vienna
Municipal housing Davidhof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)

The Davidhof , even David-Hof , is a listed public housing in the 16th Viennese district Ottakring . It was built between 1926 and 1927 according to plans by the architects Walter Broßmann and Alfred Keller and comprises 242 apartments.

location

The Davidhof is located in the Vienna cadastral community of Ottakring . The municipal housing is bounded in the south by Spindeleggergasse, in the west by Seitenberggasse, in the north by Effingergasse and in the east by Römergasse.

History and structure

The Davidhof was built on a previously undeveloped site that was only parceled out in the Vienna General City Plan of 1912. The architect team Broßmann und Keller was responsible for the construction of the Davidhof, who had designed the Jean-Jaurès-Hof , which was built between 1925 and 1926, in front of the Davidhof . For the construction of the Davidhof, Broßmann and Keller chose a block edge construction , which they had five and seven storeys built. Due to the sloping terrain, the ground floor of the Davidhof has different heights, with the difference in height being accentuated by a red cornice band that separates the ground floor from the upper floors. Furthermore, the outer facade was designed with protruding window axes, multi-storey pointed bay windows and towering elevator towers. The architects also used various window shapes, sill cornices and high gables as additional design elements . Due to its high gable and small arched loggias, the Davidhof is assigned to the “rural type” of early community buildings, whereby such romantic-expressive design principles became generally accepted in the construction of residential complexes in Vienna around 1925.

The large inner courtyard, which is divided into two areas, can be reached through arched portals on the street side. From the green and terraced inner courtyard of the community building, the 242 apartments of the Davidhof can be reached via ten stairs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Brossmann. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

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