Hugo Breitner Hof

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The Hugo Breitner Hof is one of the largest municipal buildings in Vienna , named after the social democrat Hugo Breitner . The facility (Linzer Strasse 299-325, 14th district Penzing ) was built between 1947 and 1956 and is located south of Linzer Strasse and east of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium. Around 3500 people live in the facility.

The Hugo Breitner Hof
Part of the residential complex
Monument to Hugo Breitner

history

Before the establishment

From the first half of the 12th century, the "Baumgarten, Oberes Gut" property was an agricultural property under the rule of the Formbach Abbey (Passau) . In 1790 the monastery sold these 31 Joch Wiesengrund to the municipality of Baumgarten near Vienna . The adjoining "Baumgarten, Unteres Gut" belonged to the Imperial Forest Office until 1848. The name “Herrschaftsfeld” (today Hugo-Breitner-Hof) came from the manors for the area, which remained undeveloped well into the 19th century.

Area of ​​the train station Wien-Hütteldorf : Oelgas-Anstalt (built: 1878; here: around 1902)

Even the construction of the Western Railway , which opened in 1858, was of great importance for the former suburbs of Penzing , Baumgarten and Hütteldorf in the course of industrialization. But it was not until 1878/79 that an English company built the Baumgarten gasworks and the railroad an oil gasworks for lighting the wagons in the immediate vicinity .

Shortly after the beginning of the First World War in 1914, it was becoming increasingly difficult for hospitals to accept the steadily increasing number of wounded. Finally, in 1917, a military hospital with 40 wooden barracks was built as " kuk Kriegsspital III Baumgarten " on the area of ​​the domain .

Up until 1949 there were numerous barracks and buildings of various types and sizes on the site - as remnants of the military hospital - some of which were used as apartments for refugees and evicted, and some served as business, storage and workshops - the infamous "Baumgartner Barrack camp ” . The people lived here in extreme conditions. Up to 16 people from different families lived in apartments with a room, kitchen and cabinet. And of course there were no rental contracts. The people there could be evicted from their homes at any time.

Planning and construction

Due to the increasing dilapidation of the barracks and the precarious living conditions for the people, the state social officer drew the attention of Richard Schmitz, then mayor of Vienna, to the situation in February 1938 . A commission should investigate the situation. In 1939 Erwin Fabrici, Georg Lippert , Fritz Purr and Paul Widmann presented plans for a new housing project in place of the barracks camp. The plan was for 12 blocks with 142 staircases and a loose construction with only 16.7 percent of the entire property. The rest was intended for green spaces, playgrounds and sports fields, streets, paths and squares. The garden city-like complex was to extend between Linzer Strasse, Deutschordenstrasse and Cossmanngasse.

Planning for the Hugo-Breitner-Hof project, the first major building project in the Vienna community after the Second World War , was not due to the “ Anschluss ” and the war until 1947. In October 1948, the Vienna City Council approved the project based on the plans which was based in 1939.

On July 7, 1949 the foundation stone was laid by Vice Mayor Karl Honay . He proudly announced that 4,000 people would soon be living on the site. From then on, the residential complex was built in four construction phases until 1956, as the clearing of the site and the demolition of the old buildings including the resettlement of the residents could only be carried out step by step. The first construction phase comprised 366 apartments, 6 business premises and a workshop and cost around 27 million schillings; the topping-out ceremony for the second construction phase took place on June 26, 1951. The small chapel “St. Florian ”, which was built at the beginning of the 1920s by the General Vienna Church Building Association in the middle of the barracks camp, was sacrificed and demolished in favor of the residential complex.

A real small town was created on a total area of ​​16.3  hectares , taking into account the connection between buildings and recreational areas. 24,000 square meters of the building land were built  , but almost three quarters of the large area was used for the construction of green areas, as well as playgrounds and sports fields for the young. A kindergarten and an after-school care center were created for the children, and a total of 28 shops and ten workshops were set up.

The artistic furnishings of the residential complex include the natural stone relief "Hausbau" by Erwin Hauer (1954), the sculpture "Mother with Children" by Siegfried Charoux (1959) and the sculpture "Die Sterngucker" by Hilde Uray (1954). There are reliefs by Franz Barwig the Elder above the gates . J. , August Bodenstein , Robert Mussi, Oskar Thiede , Robert Ullmann and Ernst Wenzelis. The children's slide was designed by Josef Seebacher-Konzut (1954). In 1957 a memorial bust created by Siegfried Charoux for Hugo Breitner was unveiled here by Mayor Franz Jonas.

The entire residential complex was officially opened on October 15, 1954 by Mayor Franz Jonas .

The architecture of the complex was not seen exclusively as positive: “ The urban planning concept [...] is reminiscent of the well-known large estates, such as the Linz“ Hermann Göring Works ”. What one can [...] wonder about even more is the architecture, from which everything Viennese has been thoroughly expelled. The square with the Munich arcade is more reminiscent of a small town in southern Germany. The fact that this facility was named after Hugo Breitner, the ingenious Vienna City Councilor for Finance of the 1st Republic, is part of the relentless irony of history. "( Friedrich Achleitner )

Redevelopment

In 1999 a comprehensive renovation (so-called "plinth renovation") of the facility was decided, which was often referred to as "Europe's largest renovation construction site". The implementation started in 2003 included a. the thermal insulation of the facades and the installation or addition of 41 elevators. As part of the renovation, the attics were also expanded and 199 new attic apartments with a living space of almost 13,700 m² were created. The total cost of the work completed in 2007 was around 46 million euros.

Since this renovation, the Hugo-Breitner-Hof also has the first solar system in a Viennese community building. The system supplies around 120 of the 199 apartments that were additionally built when the attic floors were expanded. The solar collectors extend over 280 m² and generate a total of 112,000  kilowatt hours of energy per year.

Key data of the system

  • 126 stairs;
  • around 1380 rental properties (of which around 1270 are apartments);
  • approx. 72,000 m² of living space;
  • approx. 64,000 m² of green space;
  • around 3500 residents;
  • Total construction costs: 91.2 million schillings (at the time of construction).

Trivia

On the occasion of the legendary Vienna summit with the US President John F. Kennedy , the Prime Minister of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev , was also guided through this community building in June 1961.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laying of the foundation stone for the largest residential building of the post-war period - the Hugo Breitner-Hof. In: City Hall correspondence of July 7, 1949. (Accessed July 21, 2012)
  2. ^ Topping-out ceremony in the Hugo Breitner-Hof. In: City Hall correspondence of June 26, 1951. (Accessed July 21, 2012)
  3. ^ Opening ceremony at Hugo Breitner-Hof In: Rathauskorrespondenz from October 15, 1954. (Accessed July 21, 2012)
  4. ^ First solar system in a Viennese community building - general renovation Hugo-Breitner-Hof In: Rathauskorrespondenz from July 26, 2007. (Accessed July 21, 2012)

literature

Web links

Commons : Hugo-Breitner-Hof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 51.9 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 12.1 ″  E