Mariahilfer Gymnasium

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Building site in the reports of the Vienna city administration, 1873, plan 15

The Mariahilfer Gymnasium is a middle school in the Mariahilf district of Vienna .

history

Shortly after it was founded in 1864, the school moved in 1869 to the originally Baroque Kaunitz -Esterházy Palace, which the municipality of Vienna had acquired from the Esterházy family . This palace was extensively adapted for school purposes by the city's chief engineer Georg Haussmann after adding a second floor, functionally according to the latest state of the art.

At the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, not only was the building presented in plans and views as an exemplary modern school building, but also prominent anthropological and zoological collections of the grammar school, which were in no way inferior to comparable university collections. This was acquired by the first director of the school, the doctor and zoologist Benedikt Kopezky, who also taught at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna as a lecturer.

During the occupation after the Second World War, the Lycée Français de Vienne was housed on the main floor of the building . After the French school moved out, between 1955 and 1960, under the direction of Dr. Friedrich Wotke of the Federal Building Administration carried out a series of renovation work on and in the building, including the ceiling fresco in the baroque octagonal ballroom by Antonio Marini , "The Olymp" (1819), which was restored by the Federal Monuments Office . In 1964 the 100th anniversary of the grammar school was celebrated in a series of events.

In 1967, at the instigation of the new school management and the federal building administration, a revocation of the monument protection was enforced, which the public only learned about in autumn 1970 when the school moved into a "transitional building" on Westbahnstrasse. Violent protests in the media, including from well-known personalities, could not prevent the demolition work. In place of the building at that time, today's school building was erected on Amerlingstrasse.

Apart from only a few structural elements, the ceiling fresco of the ballroom was saved at the instigation of the "Action Committee SOS for Vienna"; it was only reapplied to the ceiling of the newly created auction room of the Kunstpalais Dorotheum - in the former Palais Eskeles - in 1982 . The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna ( Jewish Museum Vienna ) has been located in the Palais Eskeles since 1993 . Since then, the Marini fresco has been hidden from the public by hanging the ceiling.

Graduates (selection)

Fonts

  • School programs of the KK Staatsgymnasium in VI. Districts of Vienna, 1897–1915 digitized

literature

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 50 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 5 ″  E