Haas house

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Haas-Haus on Stock-im-Eisen-Platz in Vienna , photo 2015
Stephansplatz or east side view of the Haas house

The Haas-Haus is a building in Vienna's 1st district , Innere Stadt , on Stock-im-Eisen-Platz opposite St. Stephen's Cathedral .

history

First Haas house

The first new building at this point after the Biedermeier development, the Philipp Haas & Sons carpet store , was a splendid iron post construction. It was built in the historicism style in 1866/1867 and was the first large department store in Vienna. The architects were August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll , who built what is now the Vienna State Opera from 1861–1869 . Branch offices of the carpet and upholstery fabric factories existed around 1900 in Lemberg, Prague, Graz and Linz.

Post-war construction

After the destruction of this building in the air raids on Vienna towards the end of the Second World War , a new building was built by Carl Appel and Max Fellerer from 1951 to 1953 . This simple post-war internationalist building directly in front of St. Stephen's Cathedral was soon seen as untenable in the cityscape, and no longer appropriate to the prominent location.

Today's Hollein house

The house was replaced in 1985 by today's Haas House, which opened on September 19, 1990. The building planned by the architect Hans Hollein sets an urban accent with the mirrored bay window . Since the building contrasts with St. Stephen's Cathedral on the opposite side, it sparked debates at the time of construction: it was even more controversial than the previous building at the time.

Inside, the house had a cone-shaped central room that opened upwards, which was lost in 2002 during the renovation for the Zara shop.

In December 2014, Uniqa-Versicherung sold the building to the Austrian catering company Do & Co for EUR 106.6 million .

Picture gallery

  • South view of the Haas House

  • The Philipp Haas & Sons carpet store at the end of the 19th century.

  • The post-war Haas house, before its demolition in 1985

  • Haas house at dusk

  • View from the café to St. Stephen's Cathedral

literature

Web links

Commons : Haas-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DerStandard.at - Do & Co buys Haas-Haus in Vienna . Article dated December 16, 2014, accessed December 17, 2014.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 18 ″  E