Länderbankzentrale (Hohenstaufengasse)
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The former Länderbank headquarters is located at Hohenstaufengasse 3 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . It was built by Otto Wagner for the Länderbank in 1883/1884 and is now used as an official building. With the floor plan, the section and the facade facing the courtyard of the building, it marks the beginning of 20th century Viennese architecture and is sometimes referred to as the “first modern office building in Vienna”.
Performers
The architect was Otto Wagner , who for the first time received an order to construct a public building under competition. The master builder work was carried out by Mr. Ferdinand Dehm and Franz Olbricht . Johannes Benk was commissioned to do the sculpting .
Client
The client was the "kk privileged Österreichische Länderbank". It was founded by the Parisian financial institution "Union Generale" in 1880 (founding meeting on November 11th) on the initiative of the French financier Paul-Eugène Bontoux (1820-1904) and endowed with 40 million gold guilders share capital. The headquarters of the newly founded bank was initially in rented rooms in the building newly built by the architect Carl Schumann at Löwelstrasse 18. In 1882, it was separated from the parent company in Paris. On March 12, 1882, part of the grounds of the former armory in Hohenstaufengasse 1-5 were purchased for the construction of a bank headquarters. After a "closer competition" Otto Wagner was commissioned to build the bank building. The cost was 1,005,334 guilders. In January 1890, the Länderbank also bought the neighboring building at Hohenstaufengasse 5 , which was built by the architect Ludwig Tischler in 1880. In 1938 the company moved to the bank building of the Lower Austrian Escompte Society , Am Hof No. 2, which was built between 1913 and 1915 by architects Ernst Gotthilf and Alexander Neumann , which was acquired by Länderbank. In the same year, the Hohenstaufengasse 3 building was sold to the German Army , which set up a Wehrmacht supply point there from 1939 and ran a divisional court from late 1943 / early 1944.
description
The building is a skeleton structure made of steel, which was filled with panels. It has six floors and a basement while the engine rooms, boiler, ventilation, heating and dynamos plants, a half souterrain - (Base) floor, in which the deposits that effect cash-Local and large safes including patrols and the doorman apartment were a mezzanine floor for the public space and the cash, a mezzanine for the banking department, a main floor (1st floor), in which the offices of the governor, the Lieutenant governor, the Director General, the Deputy Director-General, the Secretaries and the The meeting room is housed and a second floor is used for bookkeeping, administration and an apartment for officials.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Burghauptmannschaft: 1010 Vienna, Hohenstaufeng. 3 - Federal Chancellery and Data Protection Authority ; accessed on 17 Sep 2016
- ↑ Open House: kk priv. Länderbank ; accessed on 17 Sep 2016
- ^ Architekturzentrum Wien : Otto Wagner ; accessed on 17 Sep 2016
- ↑ a b Hohenstaufengasse 3 in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Bank Austria : 1880: Foundation of the "kk privileged Oesterreichische Laenderbank" ; accessed on 17 Sep 2016
- ^ Österreichische Länderbank in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Hohenstaufengasse 5 in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Am Hof 2 in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Missing years. The locations and the network of Nazi military justice in Vienna. S. 35 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
- ^ Isabella Ackerl: The most important Austrians of the 19th and 20th centuries ; Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8438-0251-2 ( online )
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner: The Architect's Work: 1860-1902, Volume 1 ; 2nd edition, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-205-98224-X ( online )
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '46.7 " N , 16 ° 21' 59.2" E