Franz Weber Hof

	location
Address:	Weinberggasse 60–78
District:	Dobling
Coordinates:	48 ° 14 '40.6 " N , 16 ° 19' 49" E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '40.6 " N , 16 ° 19' 49" E
	Architecture and art
Construction time:	1983-1988
Apartments:	430 in 5 buildings / 42 stairs
Architects:	Johann Brennig, Helmut Christen, Peter Erblich, Heidulf Gerngroß, Stefan K. Hübner, Manfred Hirschler, Walter Hoffelner, Ernst Hoffmann, Heinz Dieter Kajaba, Gerhard Kroj, Hans Kukula
Artwork by:	Gottfried Höllwarth , Franz Xaver Ölzant
Named after:	Franz Weber (1993)
	Cultural property register of the city of Vienna
	Municipal housing Franz-Weber-Hof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)

Franz-Weber-Hof, staircase 22

The Franz-Weber-Hof is a council in the 19th Vienna district Döbling . It was built between 1983 and 1988 on the former site of the Gräf & Stift automobile factory and comprises 430 apartments.

location

The Franz-Weber-Hof is located in the south of Döbling in the cadastral community of Untersievering . The residential complex is bordered in the south by Weinberggasse and in the north by Gräfweg, in the west the Franz-Weber-Hof extends up to Börnergasse, and in the east another residential complex separates the Franz-Weber-Hof from Görgengasse. The official address of the residential complex is Weinberggasse 60–78.

history

From 1904 the automobile factory of the company Gräf & Stift stood on the present area of the Franz-Weber-Hof . After numerous enlargements, Philipp Jakob Manz also built Vienna's first large reinforced concrete hall in neoclassical style in 1916 . However, financial difficulties forced the company management to close the plant. The City of Vienna then announced an architecture competition in the early 1980s, in which, in addition to the winners, nine other award winners of the competition were able to realize their projects. The residential area was named on December 2, 1993 after Franz Weber (1910–1989), who had served as works council chairman of the Gräf & Stift company as well as Döblingen district chairman.

Building

The Franz-Weber-Hof has 42 staircases and consists of several three to five-storey building blocks, some of which are interconnected. Due to the large number of participating architects, the spectrum of structures ranges from conservative buildings of the Viennese postmodern era to the almost “technoid” construction method of the Richter / Gerngroß team. The central, middle building houses several shops, while a monumental archway is reminiscent of the former car factory.

art

The Franz-Weber-Hof houses the 1986/87 fountain sculpture “River Landscape” by the sculptor Gottfried Höllwarth and a recessed stone sculpture by the sculptor Franz Xaver Ölzant , which was created in 1985/86.