Krempl high-rise

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Spinach bunker / Krempl high-rise
Spinach bunker / Krempl high-rise
Spinach bunker looking towards the city center / Wienerstraße
Basic data
Place: Wiener Strasse, Glimpfingerstrasse and the eponymous Kremplstrasse
Construction time : 1969-1970
Architects : Artur Perotti
Use / legal
Usage : Housing, business premises
Apartments : 260
Client : Ernst Hamberger
Technical specifications
Height : 42 m
Floors : 14th
Building material : Loose concrete, reinforced concrete
address
Country: Austria

The Krempl high-rise is a residential and commercial building in Linz . The popular name "spinach bunker" was derived from the green facade cladding that existed until the renovation at the beginning of the 2000s.

history

The house was built until 1970 according to plans by the architect Artur Perotti and was considered a modern and innovative building with 260 residential units. On the ground floor there are business premises with an area of ​​770 m². The aging building has increasingly developed into a social hotspot. The building is formative for the entire district. The popular term “spinach bunker” has been used to this day and is used as a location, for example in directions to public buildings, and the post office also delivers items with the address “spinach bunker”.

Individual evidence

  1. council Karl Berger Schedel "The spinach bunker". Linz Panorama, January 3, 2014, accessed on April 6, 2015 .
  2. Directions to the Christ Church. Evangelical Parish AB Linz-Süd, accessed on April 6, 2015 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 32.7 "  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 44.4"  E