Heizmann-Hof

	location
Address:	Vorgartenstrasse 140–142
District:	Leopoldstadt
Coordinates:	48 ° 13 '26.5 " N , 16 ° 24' 2.5" E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '26.5 " N , 16 ° 24' 2.5" E
	Architecture and art
Construction time:	1925-1926
Apartments:	211 (originally 213) in 11 stairs
Architect:	Hubert Gessner
	Cultural property register of the city of Vienna
	Heizmann-Hof community housing in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)

The fire station on Lassallestrasse

The Heizmann-Hof (often Heizmannhof written) is a council in the 2nd Viennese district Leopoldstadt .

history

In Red Vienna between the wars produced numerous municipal residential buildings, 19 of them in the 2nd district. At the place that was intended for the construction of the then nameless community building, there was originally a tributary of the Danube called flagpole water . The kk military and civil swimming school existed there from 1813 until the Danube regulation in 1874 . In 1925 the construction of the residential complex designed by the architect Hubert Gessner began. On October 3, 1926, the opening ceremony was held by the Mayor of Vienna, Karl Seitz , at which the Lassalle-Hof , which is also on the other side of Lassallestrasse and also designed by Gessner in cooperation with three other architects, was opened.

At the time of its completion, the Heizmann-Hof was one of the largest communal residential complexes in Leopoldstadt with 213 apartments. At that time it had a kindergarten, a bathing facility, a painter's studio and the main fire station Donaustadt (the name Donaustadt was used from the end of the 19th century for the area in Leopoldstadt that was made usable as building land after the Danube regulation; the new one was not made until 1954 created 22nd district called Donaustadt ). The fire station had space for six fire engines on the ground floor, and the crew rooms were on the first floor.

In 1949 the community building was named Heizmann-Hof after the locksmith and resistance fighter Otto Heizmann, who belonged to a communist cell at the nearby North Station . A newly built kindergarten opened in 1954 in the premises of the kindergarten, which was housed in the oval hall on the ground floor between the two inner courtyards and was badly damaged in the course of the Second World War and has since been used as a military meat boiling plant or assembly room. In 1966 the fire station moved to the new main fire station in Leopoldstadt in Engerthstrasse 216a. From 1990 to 1995, the residential complex was completely refurbished, including the installation of elevators. The kindergarten was closed in the 2010s because numerous new, modern kindergartens were built in the nearby Nordbahnviertel urban development area.

General

The residential complex and explicitly the fire station housed in it are under monument protection ( list entry Heizmann-Hof and Feuerwache ) and are delimited by Vorgartenstrasse, Ofnergasse, Radingerstrasse and Lassallestrasse. Along Lassallestrasse 11-21 there are five Wilhelminian-style rental houses that are not part of the municipal building; the fire station at Lassallestrasse 19 closes the vacant lot on the south-eastern long side of this block. At the intersection of Lassallestraße / Vorgartenstraße is the Vorgartenstraße underground station , about 300 meters east of the Franz-von-Assisi-Church .

The four-story building comprises eleven staircases, which are grouped around two elongated, narrow inner courtyards. Architecturally interesting are the double arched entrance with pinnacles, the red and white facade divided by bay windows, and stair 3, where an original wooden staircase and a wooden baluster railing have been preserved. The total area is 4454 m², of which 64.1% is built-up.