House at the Schottentor

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House at Schottentor, Creditanstalt from 1934 to 2002

The former headquarters of Bank Creditanstalt-Bankverein will be published in 2019 as Haus am Schottentor . The building at Schottengasse 6–8 in Vienna's 1st district is a listed building . The construction cost 14 million crowns before the First World War, in today's monetary value over 60 million euros.

history

Cash desk of the former Creditanstalt

The house at Schottentor was built between 1909 and 1912 as the main building of the Vienna Bank Association based on a design by the architects Ernst Gotthilf and Alexander Neumann in Vienna's banking and stock exchange district. Another ring road was demolished for this purpose. It was then used from 1934 to 2002 as the headquarters of the now merged Bank Creditanstalt-Bankverein. In 2002 it went to Bank Austria , whose headquarters it was until 2017. In 2014 the building was sold to a holding company of the RPR private foundation by investor Ronny Pecik , and since 2015 it has been the sole property of the Koch family foundations .

architecture

The core of the neoclassical building are cruciform inner wings and four inner courtyards with glass ceilings. On the facades facing Schottenring and Schottengasse there are central projections, on the Ringstrasse corner projections with triangular gables. Figures are attached above, two young men each with a ship's bow or globe.

The main entrance is now in Schottengasse, after the entrance with stairs on the front around the building was demolished shortly after construction in order to save the stairs tax at the time. Today's main portal is a Doric column portal with three axes and reliefs on the door leaves. You can see children, fruits and flowers, as well as the names of the cities in which the bank had branches. The doors are signed by O. Csenasek. At the height above the first floor there are mask reliefs on all facades, above the portal there are reliefs with seated atlases.

The cashier as the center of the bank has a stuccoed beamed ceiling supported by atlases on pillars, ornamented windows and wood-paneled counters. The two-story ballroom and meeting room is located on the floor above. In the antechamber there are the sculptures Human Cathedral by Fritz Wotruba (1946), Jumping Horse by Herbert Boeckl (1936) and the bronze busts of General Director Josef Joham and Minister of Commerce Eduard Heinl by Gustinus Ambrosi (around 1950) as well as two tapestries. High quality materials such as marble, metal, precious woods and leather were used in all rooms.

When it was built, the building was one of the most modern structures in Vienna. It has a kind of heating system with hidden radiators with hot water flushing, which are optically disguised as a fireplace.

New use

After Bank Austria moved out of its former headquarters, the project developer PEMA Gruppe was commissioned by the owners to develop a new usage concept for the house at Schottentor. The architect of the renovation is Heinz Neumann , completion is planned for 2020. A SPAR supermarket is planned on the ground floor with a catering area, a McFit fitness center in the basement and co-working rooms of the provider Spaces on the upper floors. In addition, well-known rooms such as the Oktogon should be able to be rented as event rooms . Parts of the antique furniture are to be integrated, and the PEMA Group is also planning to reopen the entrance to the Schottenring .

Web links

Commons : Haus am Schottentor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c House at the Schottentor | PEMA group. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Bank Austria headquarters becomes a supermarket. January 20, 2018, accessed July 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Creditanstalt-Bankverein in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on February 3, 2020
  4. ↑ Pecik buys Bank Austria headquarters. December 13, 2013, accessed July 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b House at Schottentor: Re-use is certain | PEMA group. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ a b c BA headquarters: Freezer compartments instead of safes. December 19, 2018, accessed July 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Start of construction: Renovation of the former Creditanstalt headquarters "Haus am Schottentor" begins. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Bank Austria headquarters becomes a supermarket. January 20, 2018, accessed July 23, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '49.9 "  N , 16 ° 21' 48.8"  E