Indian court
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| Address: | Aichholzgasse 52–56 | |||
| District: | Meidling | |||
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 10 ′ 37 " N , 16 ° 19 ′ 21" E | |||
| Architecture and art | ||||
| Construction time: | 1929-1931 | |||
| Apartments: | 735 in 19 buildings | |||
| Architects: | Camillo Fritz Discher , Karl Dirnhuber | |||
| Named after: | The Indian figure above one of the entrances (name not official) | |||
| Cultural property register of the city of Vienna | ||||
| Community housing Indianerhof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file) | ||||
The Indianerhof is an urban residential complex belonging to the municipality of Vienna , which was built between 1929 and 1931 according to plans by Camillo Fritz Discher and Karl Dirnhuber in the 12th district of Meidling .
Building description
The Indianerhof is a large residential complex from the late period of social housing in the interwar period in Red Vienna . It is between Schwenkgasse, Ratschkygasse, Aichholzgasse and Hohenbergstrasse. Egger-Lienz-Gasse, Rotenmühlgasse, Spittelbreitengasse and Theergasse run at least partially in the complex. The complex comprises 735 apartments and consists of more garden city-like and several more closed components.
The two architects apparently never really worked together, but each designed their own components more or less independently of the other, which explains the stylistic differences. The two components are also color-coded.
The garden districts along Hohenbergstrasse and the building block on Schwenkgasse, which are influenced by the Heimat style and have high pointed gables, rustic masonry and clinker cladding on balconies, windows and stairway entrances, come from Discher . Above the entrance in Rotenmühlgasse 64 is the colored figure of an Indian, which gave the entire complex its unofficial name. There is also a figure of a child carrying a book above the entrance to Spittelbreitengasse 44.
The parts designed by Dirnhuber are more compact and block-like, a four-way part of the building between Egger-Lienz-Gasse and Aichholzgasse is free. The middle block (also called Theerhof ) has a courtyard-like forecourt facing Theergasse, a narrow connecting part with a passage connects to the row of houses on Ratschkygasse, which is not part of the building. One wing of the building (Ratschkygasse 41–43) is, however, integrated into the row of houses as a gap and not connected to the rest. At the corner of Ratschkygasse and Aichholzgasse is the former wash house with the central laundry, this part is now used as a youth center and theater, the larger part as a supermarket until the beginning of 2016.
history
The residential complex was built on the Grünberg on the site of the former Gatterhölzl in a scenic location with a view of the city of Vienna. During the civil war , on the morning of February 14, 1934, heavy fighting broke out between the Republican Schutzbund and government troops in the Indian courtyard . A large contingent of police officers, supported by machine gun fire from the nearby Meidlinger training barracks and an armored car, soon made the Schutzbund surrender. After that, the facility was spontaneously and unofficially named as Fey-Hof after the home guard leader and Vice Chancellor Emil Fey .
literature
- Hans and Rudolf Hautmann: The municipal housing of Red Vienna 1919–1934 . Vienna 1980
- Hans W. Bousska: Municipal housing in Meidling. Sheets of the district museum Meidling 45/1999
Web links
- Indian court. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)