Franz Domes Home

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Franz-Domes-Heim floor plan

The Franz-Domes-Heim was a home for apprentices built between 1951 and 1952 by the Vienna and Lower Austrian Chamber of Labor on the grounds of the Nathaniel Rothschild Palace in 1040 Vienna , Theresianumgasse 16-18, which was demolished after the war . It was named after the trade unionist Franz Domes .

history

The architect Roland Rainer was responsible for the planning and site management, and Ing. Rudolf Machat was responsible for the local site management. This post-war modern building monument was opened on October 5, 1952 by the Federal President Theodor Körner . At first it received a lot of positive attention and was shown with pride - among other things, Ferry Radax made a 40-minute documentary about it in 1952 for the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions .

The aim was to solve the training problem of the strong birth cohorts, especially in rural areas (where there were too few apprenticeships) and to offer school leavers a vocational training with orderly conditions during the apprenticeship period. The initiative for the building came from the youth department of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions. Inmates were mainly boys from Lower Austria who had an apprenticeship position in Vienna but no affordable accommodation for their parents, as well as half-orphans and orphans. In the early 1960s, the cost contribution per inmate was ATS 300 per month.

The “key building of the 1950s” was furnished according to the most modern aspects of the time with the highest quality, but inappropriate luxury was avoided. The Franz-Domes-Heim housed 243 apprentices and young workers. The multi-part building complex consisted of three residential wings, each with three floors and a main wing, which were connected to one another by glazed connecting corridors. On each of the nine floors, 27 boys were accommodated in 7 rooms (6 four-bed rooms, 1 three-bed room). On each floor there were 2 day rooms, 1 washroom with showers and 1 wash fountain, as well as toilet facilities. Each of the 3 residential wings was managed by a householder. The building used for management (bottom right in the floor plan) consisted of a staff residence with workshops, a kitchen wing with a laundry room and staff cloakroom on the ground floor and a kitchen with a sideboard on the first floor. The small elevation behind the soccer field, densely populated with trees and bushes (in the floor plan above), was called the “smoking hill” by the inmates, because it was here that smoking was forbidden. Diagonally opposite on the other side of the adjacent Plößlgasse was the "Anna Boschek-Lehrmädchen-Heim", which was built between 1957 and 1959 and named after the social democratic politician Anna Boschek .

There were also two separate hall buildings, which were also accessible through glazed connecting corridors. The complex along Schmöllerlgasse (bottom right in the floor plan) comprised a 12 × 24 meter gym with equipment room, cloakrooms, showers and toilet facilities as well as four handicraft workshops. The complex along Argentinierstrasse (bottom left in the floor plan) included a ballroom with a small stage, as well as 250 seats on the ground floor and 150 seats on the gallery. The total area covered 20,921 square meters.

In the former Rothschild Park there was a soccer field with large, old trees on two sides. There was also a well-equipped library, a photo laboratory and a TV room with a pool table. In the ballroom, plays from the Vienna Volkstheater and artistically valuable films such as B. Alluring temptation shown.

However, social changes brought a reduction in the need for home places, and there were also construction defects. The home was demolished in 1983. Today, the Chamber of Labor education center with Theater Akzent and the Anton-Benya-Park can be found in its place .

Former inmates

literature

  • Felix Czeike (ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 2 (De-Gy), Vienna 2004, p. 362

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖGB brochure Franz Dome's apprenticeship home - ÖGB library 8844
  2. ^ Friedrich Achleitner : Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century: A Guide in Three Volumes : Volume 3, Part 1, p. 147
  3. ^ Personal memories of an inmate 1959-1962
  4. ^ Former Franz Domes apprentice home. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 32.8 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 32.4"  E