Military Riding Instructor Institute
The Military Riding Instructor Institute (also kuk Equitation Institute ) was a training facility for riding instructors for the army , both for the army , which had been common to both halves of the empire since 1867, and for the Austrian kk Landwehr . It was located in Vienna's 3rd district , Landstrasse , at Ungargasse 60-62 and 69 from 1850 to 1918 .
The institute used the premises of the Harrach Garden Palace (Ungargasse 69), which was largely demolished in 1968, and the indoor riding arena with stables (Ungargasse 60-62), which was newly built compared to 1850 and some of which still exists today.
From 1918 to 1921 the riding hall was converted into the “Eos Kino” (“Eos Lichtspieltheater”), one of the largest cinemas in Vienna. In the 1920s, a 60-piece orchestra accompanied the silent films that were played in front of up to 1,000 visitors. In 1930 the cinema was rebuilt in the course of the introduction of the sound film and from 1931 until it was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944, the cinema, which now had a capacity of 1,200 and now also had headphone connections for the hard of hearing, was called " Sascha Filmpalast".
The former riding school was demolished in 1986, and its rear wing (stable building) with the historic staircase was integrated into the hotel built in 1990 . A group of figures that was originally on the gable of the riding arena is now in the hotel's garden. Historical equestrian paintings can be seen in the stairwell. The neighboring pedestrian walkway built in 1908 over today's S-Bahn main line was named as a riding school walkway in 1920 in memory of the riding school .
literature
- Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 268
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 47 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 14" E