Hietzing court pavilion

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The court pavilion in Hietzing, looking west

The Hofpavillon Hietzing by Otto Wagner , occasionally also called Hofwartesaal or Kaiserpavillon , was once a separate reception building of the Vienna steam light rail for Emperor Franz Joseph I and his entourage and is now a branch of the Wien Museum . It is located in the 13th district of Hietzing in Vienna , at 3.625 kilometers of the Untere Wientallinie . This means that the pavilion is located 160 meters into the city of the now demolished, regular reception building of the Hietzing station , which is now served by the U4 line of the Vienna underground . On the street side, it is connected to Schönbrunner Schlossstrasse . The building, which was completed in April 1898, was given an unmistakable, representative exterior and a valuable Art Nouveau interior that was tailored to the needs of the emperor and is considered an icon of the beginning modern age.

history

Sketch of the Hietzinger court pavilion from 1898, drawn with the architect Otto Wagner kk Ober-Baurath

During the construction of the Stadtbahn, Vienna's largest infrastructure project around 1900, Otto Wagner, the pioneer of modern architecture, was entrusted with the artistic design of the new means of mass transport in 1894, which still shapes the cityscape today. On his initiative, a separate pavilion was built for the Kaiser and the “Allerhöchsten Hof” at the Hietzing stop. Its construction was initially decided in 1897 with the note that the resulting additional costs should be covered by savings in the construction of the belt and suburb line . With this extravagant and representative building, Wagner wanted to give the tramway on the one hand, and his own work on the other hand, a special shine - apparently detached from the real context of use. A regular operation for the train in the yard would have been too complicated and expensive in terms of rail technology anyway.

In fact, the emperor only used the pavilion twice: on June 16, 1899 to inspect the Lower Wiental Line and on April 12, 1902 to inspect the Danube Canal line. On the other hand, he preferred the nearby Penzing train station for his travels even after the opening of the light rail system , but the station was frequented for special visitors.

After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic of German-Austria on November 12, 1918, the court pavilion lost its function and then served the sculptor Sepp Haberl-Carlo as a studio for a long time . During the Second World War , the Wagner building was bombed on February 19, 1945, but was later repaired. Only the stairs leading to the platforms of the Vienna Electric Light Rail, which emerged from the steam light rail in 1925, were permanently lost. In 1957 the building was rented to the Austrian Museum of Social and Economic Affairs as an exhibition space. From 1986 a monument preservation renovation took place and after its completion on July 3, 1989 the pavilion was made available to the Wien Museum , the former historical museum of the city of Vienna, as an exhibition pavilion.

After severe damage, so that the immediate vicinity of the pavilion had to be closed, and criticism from the Vienna Control Office, an extensive renovation of the courtyard pavilion took place from 2012. The cost of 1.8 million euros was borne entirely by the City of Vienna. The restoration work was led by the Manfred Wehdorn architectural office and completed in 2014. The plastered areas and structures of the pavilion were reconstructed in the surface quality intended by Wagner using old craft techniques. The metal objects at the driveway were statically refurbished and put back in the original shade of green.

To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Otto Wagner's death, the court pavilion was used as a backdrop for the music ballet for the 2018 New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, which was broadcast live on television . In the courtyard pavilion, Alfons Czibulka danced a pas de deux to the “Stéphanie-Gavotte” .

description

West view of the courtyard pavilion; in the foreground the platform roofs of the Hietzing underground station, which were built after the exits from the pavilion to the platforms were removed
Ceiling of the octagonal central room
Special variant of the tram railing, only to be found in this form at the courtyard pavilion

The building was intended as a prime example of modern architecture and modern handicrafts and represents a synthesis of imperial elements such as the dome, car driveway, canopy and reduced modern design language such as the flat facades. The center of the building is the imperial waiting room, which is served by a octagonal dome is crowned. With this, a connection with the baroque buildings of the Schönbrunn Palace was established without copying the baroque form. The entire building, made of iron, stone and plaster, is preceded by an access ramp and wrought-iron candelabra . The entrance area or the middle part of the ramp has an artistic iron roof and is glazed. For the outdoor area, Wagner also created a particularly elegant variant of his light rail railing , which bears secessionist features. The salon in the pavilion is furnished with silk wallpaper and a monumental painting by Carl Moll , previously shown in the anniversary exhibition in 1898 , which shows a view of Vienna from a balloon height of 3000 meters .

literature

  • Andreas Nierhaus, Manfred Wehdorn (ed.): The pavilion of the Imperial and Royal Highest Court. A light rail station for the Kaiser (Vienna Museum, Otto Wagner Hofpavillon Hietzing), Metro-Verlag, Vienna 2014.

Web links

Commons : Hofpavillon Hietzing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arthur Oelwein: The light rail. In: Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century - a leader in a technical and artistic direction. published by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, edited by engineer Paul Kortz Stadtbaurat, first volume, Vienna 1905, published by Gerlach & Wiedling , Vienna, pp. 110–122.
  2. ↑ a b 1133.at: The court pavilion at the Hietzing underground station ; accessed on May 21, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Erich Schlöss: The Vienna light rail. Wiental and Danube Canal Lines (= contributions to urban research, urban development and urban design. Vol. 19). Magistrate, Vienna 1987 ( online )
  4. ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
  5. ^ A b Wien Museum : Wien Museum: Otto Wagner Hofpavillon Hietzing ; accessed on May 22, 2018
  6. ↑ a b c d Wien.gv.at: Otto Wagner Hofpavillon Hietzing ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 21, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  7. ^ Sándor Békési, Johannes Hradecky: The Otto Wagner Year and the Vienna City Railroad - Notes on the history of traffic on the double anniversary. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Volume 73, Issue 4/2018, p. 282.
  8. ↑ The construction technician; XIX. Volume, No. 25 ( online at ANNO )
  9. ↑ Artinwords.de: Otto Wagner Court Pavilion in Hietzing , accessed on May 21, 2018
  10. ↑ Hofpavillon in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  11. ↑ a b Otto Wagner Hofpavillon Hietzing in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  12. ^ Die Presse : Hietzing: The emperor's court pavilion falls into disrepair ; Print edition, November 14, 2011 ( online )
  13. ↑ Hofpavillon is being renovated , website of the Vienna city administration ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  14. ↑ VER SACRUM, II. Vol. 8 (1899) pp. 3–13, here p. 5.
  15. ↑ On the opening of the Wienthal Line , in: Daily Newspaper Neue Freie Presse , Vienna, No. 12501, June 13, 1899, p. 6, section Communal-Zeitung

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 21.6 ″  E