Horticultural tower
The horticultural high-rise is a high-rise at Parkring 12 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . The controversial construction project on Vienna's Ringstrasse was completed in 1963, despite heated discussions and criticism. The architects were Erich Boltenstern , the builder of the Ringturm , and Kurt Schlauss . Before that, the horticultural building of the Austrian Horticultural Society (ÖGG) was on the site , which was gradually demolished in the 1950s.
history
At the beginning of the 1960s, the first high-rise debate in Vienna during the period of reconstruction ignited at the horticultural tower . The building of the Wiener Gartenbau-Gesellschaft was built from 1863 to 1864 by the architect August Weber , who also built the Wiener Künstlerhaus , on the Ringstrasse , which had hardly been built up. It suffered no significant damage in World War II , but because of its low construction height and prominent location, it offered an incentive for speculative building densification. The regulation plan of 1893 already threatened the two-story building complex by setting a higher building class .
The originally elegant character of the establishment was lost after the First World War; After a side wing of the horticultural building was demolished, tennis courts and sales booths were placed on the site. In 1960 the central wing, in which the horticultural cinema had previously been located, also fell. As a result, passionate debates ensued about the high-rise construction planned here since the end of the 1950s, initially ten-story, then twenty-story. After the first press reports in 1957, citizens' initiatives were formed (cf., for example, the daily newspaper Neues Österreich of September 13 and December 19, 1959 and February 17, 1960). Oskar Kokoschka protested in sharp words against the new building; Friedrich Achleitner even spoke of the fourteen-storey building from 1960–63 as an "ulcer" in the city's silhouette.
The second section of the construction of the horticultural grounds, the Hotel Marriott, built until 1985 according to plans by the architects Harry Glück and Peter Czernin , later respected the eaves height of the ring road construction.
From today's perspective and in comparison to later interventions in the ambience of the ring road zone, the trimmed Hotel Am Parkring from the early 1960s hardly appears to be a real high-rise. The Das Schick restaurant is located on the twelfth floor of the hotel .
Individual evidence
- ^ Die Presse, November 10, 1962
literature
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste WIen - A review of five decades , Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 20 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 42" E