Holyhof
The Holyhof (also Holy-yard ) is a council in the 17th Vienna district Hernals .
history
The Holyhof was built in 1928/9 according to plans by Otto Wagner student Rudolf Perco (1884–1942) on Frauenfeld , where a number of municipal building projects were being carried out due to the availability of favorable building sites at the time ( Wiedenhoferhof , Türkenritthof, residential complex Balderichstraße, Eiflerhof). The residential building, which currently has 103 apartments at the address Heigerleinstraße 104, was given its current name after a Social Democrat who was murdered in the nearby Türkenritthof in 1948.
architecture
The Holyhof was the first order for a residential complex that Perco received under sole responsibility. Perco, with a tendency towards monumentality and gestures, met the challenge of a triangular, partly already built-up property by orienting the main facade not on Heigerleinstraße or Halirschgasse, but as a "pointed facade" with over-corner stone balconies and a tower-like cant to the Hernalser Bahnhofsplatz . After the completion of the Holyhof, Perco was entrusted with the sole planning of the second largest communal residential building in Vienna between the wars, the Friedrich-Engels-Platz residential complex (1929–33). In the 1950s there was a roof extension of the Holyhof. A base renovation was carried out in 1991/2.
literature
- Ursula Prokop: Rudolf Perco 1884–1942. From the architecture of Red Vienna to Nazi megalomania. Vienna 2001.
- Dehio Vienna, X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII . District. Vienna 1996.
- Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century, III, Vienna [II]: 13. – 18. District . Vienna 1995.
Web links
- Municipal housing Holyhof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '27.4 " N , 16 ° 18' 59.6" E