Leuthnerhof

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Coat of arms of the city of Vienna Leuthnerhof community housing
in Vienna
Leuthnerhof
location
Address: Mollardgasse 89
District: Mariahilf
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '21 "  N , 16 ° 20' 26.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '21 "  N , 16 ° 20' 26.7"  E
Architecture and art
Construction time: 1931-1932
Apartments: 159 (originally 172) in 10 steps
Architect: Georg Rupprecht
Cultural property register of the city of Vienna
Municipal housing Leuthnerhof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)

The Leuthnerhof is a community building in the 6th Viennese district Mariahilf .

history

In the interwar period in Red Vienna , numerous municipal residential buildings were built, one of them in the 6th district. At the place of today's Leuthnerhof there was a section of the line wall from the beginning of the 18th century , which was built as a fortification to protect the Vienna suburbs, later served as a tax border and was razed at the end of the 19th century. From 1947 the Gumpendorfer slaughterhouse was located here, interrupting the course of the line wall. After the slaughterhouse was demolished in 1907, the main fire station Mariahilf , the central vocational school and the workshop yard were built on the site . The area of ​​today's Leuthnerhof was not built on, a closed youth playground was created here after 1914. In 1931, the construction of the first Mariahilfer community building, designed by the architect Georg Rupprecht, began at this point. At the time of completion in 1932, the building had an apprentice library, as the tenants included apprentices and teachers from the neighboring vocational school.

After a bomb hit in World War II , in which the residential complex was badly damaged, the destroyed parts were rebuilt in 1947 and 1949. In 1949 it was named after the journalist and social democratic politician Karl Leuthner , who was remembered by a plaque in the entrance area. From 2004 to 2005 a general renovation of the residential complex took place, during which, among other things, the roof was re-covered and the windows and doors were replaced. In addition, the facade was provided with a thermal insulation composite system and the residential complex was connected to the Vienna district heating network. Today the Leuthnerhof is the second largest community building in Mariahilfer after the Einsteinhof, which was completed in 1952.

General

The residential complex has been under monument protection since 2003 ( list entry ) and is bordered by Linken Wienzeile , Mollardgasse, Eisvogelgasse and Pliwagasse. Beyond the Wienzeile is the Margaretengürtel subway station .

The five-storey building comprises 10 staircases, which are grouped as a block perimeter around a green inner courtyard, from which the individual staircases are accessible. The facade is designed without decoration and is divided by slightly pronounced risalits and a wide, ribbon-shaped cornice as a two-layer wall system, and on the left Wienzeile also by balconies. Also worth mentioning are two originally preserved carpet tapping bars in the inner courtyard, the posts of which have expressionist approaches.

literature

  • Hans and Rudolf Hautmann: The Municipal Housing of Red Vienna 1919-1934 , Vienna 1980
  • Dehio Handbook Vienna II.-IX. and XX. District, Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, 1993. ISBN 978-3-85028-393-9 .

Web links

Commons : Leuthner-Hof  - collection of images, videos and audio files