Hörndlwald

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Hörndlwald, southwest wing of the Josef-Afritsch-Heim, which was demolished in April 2013 (2007)

The Hörndlwald is a recreational area in the 13th district of Vienna , Hietzing . It is located between the Geriatric Center Am Wienerwald in the east, the Friedensstadt settlement in the south and the Lainzer Tiergarten in the west. The terrain reaches its highest point at 306 m above sea level. It can be reached via Joseph-Lister-Gasse, on which bus line 54B runs.

Area

The Hörndlwald was once part of the Lainzer Tiergarten and stretched from Joseph-Lister-Gasse in the north and the former Lainz “care home” (today's geriatric center in the Vienna Woods ) in the east to Hermesstraße in the south, the access to the Hermesvilla . In the west, the Hörndlwald joined the forest area around the Hermesvilla. The southern half was cleared in the early 1920s for the new Friedensstadt settlement , the northern half was preserved as a forest. It was foreseeable that the rest of the Hörndl Forest, now exposed in the zoo, surrounded by populated areas in the north, east and south, would ultimately also be excluded from the walled area.

buildings

After 1945 the area was used for refugee care. The social democratic aid organization Volkshilfe , tenant of the Hörndlwald from the early 1950s until 2011, created the Josef-Afritsch-Heim, so named in 1965 , in 1950/51 with the support of the Swedish Social Democrats and at the suggestion of Josef Afritsch . It was designed by architects Rudolf Joseph Boeck (1907–1964), Adolf Hoch (1910–1992) and Julius Bergmann (1896–1969) as an elongated (approx. 105 m), slightly curved, cross-shaped, ground-level building with an opposite The rounded hall wing protruding to the southwest and was an example of socially motivated post-war architecture in Vienna until it was demolished in early summer 2013. Friedrich Achleitner notes in his architecture guide: "Today, on the way to ruin, the building also conveys architectural dreams of the 1950s: closeness to nature, opening to air, sun and landscape, but also to the cultures of the world."

use

From July 2 to 9, 1952, the Socialist Youth International held an IUSY camp at this architecturally interesting guest house , attended by 32,000 participants from 36 countries. In 1958 an international falcon camp took place here. In the 1960s, the guest house was popular as a meeting place and educational facility for young people, but could no longer keep up with the convenience of newer facilities.

In 1975 the original wing of the home was permanently closed by the building authorities. The Franziska-Fast residential complex, which was created in the immediate vicinity, was the care and accommodation facility for around 100 asylum seekers until the end of March 2011 . When 30% fewer asylum applications were received in the first half of 2010, this encouraged the decision to close the Volkshilfe home. In the summer of 2020, the vacant buildings of the Franziska-Fast-Heim were demolished and the area renatured.

Hörndlwald, A house of the Franziska-Fast-Heim, which was demolished in 2020 (2019)

After the dismantling of the Josef-Afritsch-Heim, which was used by Volkshilfe until 2011, the further use of the vacated area was also the subject of political discussions. While the city administration was planning to build a rehabilitation center on the site , a local citizens' initiative called for no building of any kind, to renature the area and leave it as a recreational area. This demand was also made by the ÖVP, FPÖ and NEOS, who were opposition parties to the city government from the SPÖ and the Greens in the Vienna City Council. In October 2019, City Councilor Kathrin Gaál (SPÖ) announced the decision that the contract with the club intended to operate the rehabilitation center would not be extended and that there were no further plans for construction.

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994
  • Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996

Web links

Commons : Hörndlwald  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 13.3 "  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 43.8"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hierner : A last look into the Afritsch home in Vienna's Hörndlwald . In: derstandard.at , May 17, 2013, accessed on June 11, 2015.
  2. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century , Volume III / 2: Vienna, 13. – 18. District; Salzburg 1995, ISBN 3-7017-0704-9 , p. 16.
  3. ↑ The IUSY. Camp begins to live. Scandinavians, English and Germans arrived . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 2, 1952, p. 3 , Mitte ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ A greeting from the youth flies all over the world. The IUSY. Camp is over - Today the foreigners are going home . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 10, 1952, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Big world under small tarpaulin. Thirty-six nations live together in the Hörndlwald - the camp democracy . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 3, 1952, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ Carina Pachner: Volkshilfe locks home in Vienna-Hietzing: Around 80 refugees lose their homes . In: news.at , December 22, 2010, accessed on June 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ wien ORF at / Agencies red: Hörndlwald remains a green area after all. October 18, 2019, accessed July 14, 2020 .