Marine Section Building
The former naval section building of the k. and k. Reich Ministry of War is on the 3rd Vienna district , highway , in the Middle Zollamtsstraße 9 and is under monument protection ( list entry ). From here in the last ten years of Austria-Hungary in the kuk naval section all matters of the kuk Kriegsmarine were dealt with. The leadership of the navy and its Austrian allies would have liked to have their own kuk naval ministry as a political authority for the Austro-Hungarian navy; The leading politicians of the Kingdom of Hungary , which became domestically independent in 1867, rejected the establishment of a fourth joint ministry (in addition to the foreign ministry, the war ministry and the common finance ministry to finance the foreign ministry and the army). The naval agendas therefore had to remain in a section of the War Ministry, which at that time still had its headquarters at Am Hof in the old town. There was a lack of space there.
A separate building was therefore later required for the naval section. It was built in 1908 by the architect Theodor Bach and the naval chief engineer Camillo Flat (a year later the new building of the War Ministerial Building , which was occupied in 1913, began in the immediate vicinity ). At the height of the first floor, the facade is decorated with enamelled coats of arms of 16 Adriatic ports of the monarchy .
The naval section, like the entire war ministry, was closed by the new state of German Austria from November 1918 . From 1925 the building housed the General Directorate of the Austrian Federal Forests ; she later moved to Purkersdorf , a western suburb in the Vienna Woods . A plaque in the building commemorates the activities of the marine section.
Web links
- Military institutions. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 2, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 28.6 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 3 ″ E