House of Industry

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the House of Industry of the same name in Düren, see House of Industry (Düren)

The House of Industry on Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna

Facade lighting at the House of Industry

The House of Industry is a late historic building in Vienna from 1909, which is the seat of the Federation of Industrialists .

history

Commemorative inscription in memory of the preparatory talks on the Austrian State Treaty

The House of Industry was built from 1906 to 1909 according to plans by the architect Karl König and opened on March 5, 1911 by Emperor Franz Joseph .

After the Second World War, the undamaged building on Schwarzenbergplatz, then known as Stalinplatz, was the seat of the Allied Council . Austria was occupied by Great Britain, France, the USA and the USSR from 1945 to 1955. Preparatory talks about the Austrian State Treaty took place in the House of Industry from May 2 to May 12, 1955 , and the Foreign Ministers of the occupying powers also met in the building on May 14, before the State Treaty was ceremoniously signed on May 15, 1955.

With an interruption in the years in which it served the Allied Council, the House of Industry was the seat of the Association of Austrian Industrialists to this day.

Building description

The House of Industry is located in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse at Schwarzenbergplatz 4. It is a four-storey office building that is free on three sides. One edge of the building is rounded towards the Heumarkt.

The front of the shop is represented in splendid neo-baroque forms. The building has a three-axis central projectile and corner projections that are raised. Above there are balustrades set with vases. In the middle cartouche above the parapet there is a relief that shows an allegory of industry.

The interior has a representative foyer with a magnificent staircase, which is illuminated by a skylight, multi-colored marble cladding and a mighty chandelier. In the upper foyer there are marble columns, a coffered ceiling and a stone mosaic floor. The large ballroom has one of the most splendid furnishings in the Ringstrasse zone . It is a two-story pilaster-structured hall with skylights and coffered ceiling as well as galleries. On the east side is a large oil painting by Emperor Franz Joseph in a baroque frame, above it a coat of arms of the industry between caryatids . The small ballroom also has skylights and a coffered ceiling, the pilaster-structured walls show antique decor. There is a memorial inscription here to commemorate the talks that led to the conclusion of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955.

Also noteworthy is the originally first paternoster elevator in Austria from 1911 by Anton Freissler , which is also still in operation.

The recordings for the talk show We Are Emperors also take place in the large ballroom of the House of Industry. Concerts by the Vienna Royal Orchestra are also performed in the same hall.

Picture gallery

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  Large ballroom

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  Staircase

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  Gallery in the great ballroom

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  Vienna's oldest operating paternoster

literature

• Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. II. To IX. and XX. District . Publisher Anton Schroll, Vienna 1993
• Felix Czeike : Historical Handbook Vienna Vol. 3 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994
• Veit Sorger (ed.): 100 Years House of Industry 1911–2011 . VI Verwaltungs- und Betriebs GmbH, Vienna 2011
• The House of Industry - Splendid climax of late historicism: Information about the architecture of the house and its opening. - iv.at, Federation of Industry

Web links

Commons : House of Industry  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 59 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 33"  E

Individual evidence

1. ^ Concerts in the House of Industry - Vienna Royal Orchestra. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .