Helmut Qualtinger Hof

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Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof, staircase 22 (2008)

The Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof is a council in the 19th Vienna district , Döbling . It was built from 1958 to 1959 according to plans by the architect Hermann Kutschera and comprises 368 apartments.

location

The Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof is located in the Döblinger cadastral community of Untersievering . The residential complex is bordered in the south by Traklgasse; in the southeast the area of ​​the municipal housing extends up to Weinzingergasse or Iglaseegasse. In the east the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof is separated from the Grinzinger Allee by three buildings, while in the north the Paradisgasse and in the west Daringergasse delimit the area. The official address of the residential complex is Daringergasse 12-20.

History and structure

Ferdinand Welz: mother and child in the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof in Vienna

On the site between Grinzinger Allee and Daringergasse, a barrack emergency hospital was built as the Austro-Hungarian War Hospital Grinzing during the First World War . The wounded and sick soldiers were brought in via the suburban line ( Oberdöbling station ) and the Vienna tram line 38. With patients and nursing staff, the hospital was designed with 60 barracks for 6,000 people and had a hospital church in the middle. Senior medical officer Arnold Durig was in charge . Alfred Adler previously served in War Hospital No. 6 in Simmering and later also in Grinzing.

After the Second World War, there was a barrack camp for families whose houses had been destroyed during the war on the site of the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof. Between 1958 and 1959, 22 buildings were built on the site according to plans by the architect Hermann Kutschera, which are divided into 36 staircases, with the buildings being loosely distributed over the site. This led to extensive green spaces between the individual apartment blocks. While the majority of the buildings were three-storey with a gable roof and perforated facades, the three residential towers built on the central axis of the complex and built on a square floor plan have eight storeys. With them, Kutschera also implemented the first high-rise buildings in Döbling.

Kutschera structured the facades of the residential towers with loggias on the entrance side and implemented the side facades with balconies. The low apartment blocks were also given balconies and loggias. In addition, the architect planned three two-story, cube-shaped houses, the facade design of which he varied through different colors. As works of art, mosaics by Rudolf Hausner , Hermine Aichenegg and Carl Unger adorn the residential towers of the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof, and the fountain sculpture "Mother with Child" by Ferdinand Welz is in the residential complex .

Residents

The residential complex was named on September 25, 1989; the quoted Helmut Qualtinger lived here from 1960 to 1976. The KPÖ politician Johann Koplenig also lived here from 1960 to 1968, Thaddäus Podgorski lived here from 1960 to the beginning of the 1980s, the actress Louise Martini from 1968. The writer Friedl Hofbauer , the composer Karl Grell and the Popular actress Helmi Mareich among the prominent residents of the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof. A memorial plaque commemorates the Wienerlied composer Sepp Fellner , and a memorial stone for Karl Grell was erected in 1958/59 according to plans by Josef Schuster.

In memories of my happy childhood, Michael Horowitz also named Bill Grah , Franziska Kalmar , Dagmar Koller , Ida Krottendorf , Johannes Kunz , Ernst Meister , Hermi Niedt , Thaddäus Podgorski , Hanno Pöschl , Leopold Rudolf , Erne Seder , Peter Weck , Klaus as residents in 2019 -Jürgen Wussow and Alexander Wrabetz .

Individual evidence

  1. Municipal housing Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)
  2. Alfred Adler
  3. Michael Horowitz: Dagi, Quasi and a golden Mercedes / 60 years of Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof , in: daily newspaper Kurier , Vienna, May 18, 2019, supplement freizeit-KURIER , p. 34 ff.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 51.6 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 19.2 ″  E