Matteottihof

Matteottihof gate entrance via Fendigasse

Matteottihof inner courtyard

Site plan, around 1927

Matteotti's bronze relief by Luise Wolf

The Matteottihof is a listed urban residential complex in Vienna . It is located in Margareten , the 5th district of Vienna, at Siebenbrunnenfeldgasse 26–30.

Building description

The Matteottihof was built in 1926/27 under Mayor Karl Seitz by the architects Heinrich Schmid and Hermann Aichinger as a municipal residential complex. As a symbol of international solidarity in the fight against fascism, it was named after Giacomo Matteotti , an Italian opponent of Mussolini who was murdered by supporters of the dictator. In 1934 the estate was in the corporate state dictatorship in Giordanihof renamed, a gesture of humility of dictatorship Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss against Mussolini; In 1945 it was renamed.

The complex comprises 452 apartments and, together with the nearby Metzleinstaler Hof and the Herweghhof in this area of ​​Margaretens, forms a striking city district. The Matteottihof does not have a facade facing the Margaretengürtel , but forms a kind of city gate with the monumental entrance gate above Fendigasse. At this passage there is a bronze relief by Matteotti (it was removed in 1934 and recreated in 1966).

Originally, the community building had infrastructure facilities such as a laundry , a bathing establishment , a youth welfare office , a mother's advice center, a day care center as well as numerous shops and bars.

Also worth mentioning are the various lighting fixtures in the inner courtyards and the facade design with round oriels and corner loggias.

See also

• List of municipal housing in Vienna

literature

• Hans Hautmann , Rudolf Hautmann : The municipal housing of the Red Vienna 1919-1934. Schönbrunn, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-8536-40631-0 .
• Inge Podbrecky: Red Vienna. walk See. 5 routes to built experiments. From Karl-Marx-Hof to Werkbundsiedlung . Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85439-295-8 , ( Falter's city walks 4).

Web links

Commons : Matteottihof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Municipal housing Matteottihof in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)
• Matteottihof. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Laundromat in the Karl-Marx-Hof

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 54 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 1 ″  E