Phorus Hall

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The Phorushalle was a market hall on the Phorusplatz in Vienna- Wieden and Margareten (4th and 5th district), which no longer exists . It was located between Phorusgasse, Leibenfrostgasse, Ziegelofengasse and Mittersteig directly on the border between the two districts.

history

In the spring of 1879, the municipal council passed a resolution to build four market halls . According to the plans of the architect Friedrich Paul , the market hall on Phorusplatz in the 5th district of Vienna was built alongside others, such as the hall by the town hall . The market hall was opened in 1880.

The Phorus Hall was renovated in 1913. It had the function of a retail market hall until 1952 and was then converted into a wholesale market hall for flowers.

When the flower hall in the wholesale market in Vienna was completed in 1969 , the then disused hall on Phorusplatz was empty until 1979.

After a brief occupation by young people, the hall was torn down on October 22, 1979 and a retirement home was built in its place.

architecture

In 1871, two suppliers suggested the traditional brick construction, which had proven itself in the halls that had already been completed. The brick building method was preferred by the city ​​building department not least because of the cost advantage. At that time there were flourishing brick factories on the Wienerberg .

Occupation and demolition

The market hall had been empty since 1969 and was supposed to give way to a retirement home. Shortly before it was to be razed, the Vienna ÖVP under Erhard Busek and Jörg Mauthe held an "ideas flea market" in the hall on October 20, 1979. Immediately after the music program, the event was blown up by around 200 young people who had arrived from the Arena (Vienna) after a festival of the Burggarten movement with the demand for a self-managed communication center and the hall was occupied.

On Sunday, October 21, 1979, the hall was surrounded by the police. Several hundred sympathizers gathered in the course of the day; Attempts to storm the side entrances were unsuccessful. Later, some demonstrators (aged 14 and over) were arrested by the police. After negotiations, the occupiers were allowed to withdraw, but were then chased through half the city by the police. According to press reports, a brutal police operation followed.

One day later, on Monday, October 22, 1979, the demolition of the hall began.

A short time later, ÖVP state party secretary Anton Fürst filed a complaint against Peter Kreisky , Dieter Schrage and Herbert Brunner , who were considered to be the masterminds behind the occupation of the hall. The occupation of the Phorushalle can be seen in the context of the movement for lawn freedom or the Burggarten movement .

Media reception

  • Media workshop Vienna
  • Science ORF contemporary history
  • photos

further reading

  • Andrea Suttner: "Concrete burns!"
  • Wien Museum , "Occupied! Struggle for freedom since the 1970s"
  • Cultural Broadcasting Archive, "100 Years of Bruno Kreisky"
  • Amerlinghaus exhibition (June 27, 2006 - June 27, 2006), "Struggles for free spaces"
  • Andreas Zeese: The forgotten urban space. How the Vienna Phorusplatz came into being - and then disappeared again. A contribution to the history of public space in Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It will be announced. (...) Market organization for the new wholesale flower market . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 30, 1952, p. 6 , column 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ a b Detailmarkthallen - history of the Viennese markets
  3. ↑ 1979 - Phorus Hall. In: derStandard.at. May 6, 2008, accessed December 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Georg Friesenbichler: Our wild years: the seventies in Austria . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78151-6 , p. 223 f.
  5. ↑ a b Only after the end of the occupation did the rubber clubs "dance" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 22, 1979, p. 5 , column 2 f ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ http://www.medienwerkstatt-wien.at/mediaclips/cat/phorushalle-mediaclip.php
  7. ↑ The added value of the squatters. In: science.orf.at. April 10, 2012, accessed December 2, 2017 .
  8. ↑ http://www.tramwayforum.at/index.php?topic=2860.165
  9. ↑ http://stadtfilm-wien.at/media/uploads/documents/suttner_burggarten.pdf
  10. ↑ http://issuu.com/wienmuseum/docs/wien_museum_ausstellungskatalog_bes/24
  11. ↑ http://cba.fro.at/42060
  12. ↑ http://www.basis-wien.at/db/event/66078?lang=de
  13. ↑ The forgotten urban space, in: dérive. Journal for Urban Research, No. 77 (= 3/2019), pp. 46–52