Police Directorate Vienna (Schottenring 7-9)

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Police headquarters, view from the southwest
Police headquarters, view from the east
Entrance area

The Vienna Police Directorate at Schottenring 7–9 in the 1st district of Vienna , Inner City , has been the seat of the Vienna State Police Directorate since September 1, 2012 . Before that, it had been the seat of the Vienna Federal Police Directorate since 1974 and of the Vienna State Police Command since 2005 (before that, General Inspectorate of the Security Guard ). The renaming and structural change go back to the constitutional law passed by parliament on the restructuring of the security authorities in 2012 .

prehistory

In 1874, the former Hotel Austria at Schottenring 11 , which was bought for this purpose and which had been built for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, was set up the new police headquarters. The building burned down shortly before the end of the war in 1945 in the Battle of Vienna . The police headquarters were temporarily housed in the Palais Archduke Wilhelm near the city park and in various other buildings for decades .

Schottenring 7–9

The property of the former police headquarters, Schottenring 11, turned out to be too small for the new building desired in the post-war period. Therefore, on December 21, 1954, at the request of the Minister of Commerce responsible for the reconstruction, the Council of Ministers decided to purchase the neighboring 3551 m² plots between Heßgasse and Hohenstaufengasse (back: Maria-Theresien-Strasse), on which this continued until December 8, 1881 Fire destroyed the Ringtheater and then found the Atonement House, which was destroyed in 1945 . Before this decision, other locations such as the Tandelmarkt reasons were also discussed.

The area then remained empty for 15 years. It was not until 1969–1971 that the state had the new police headquarters built - according to plans by Alfred Dreier, who had erected the new institute building of the University of Vienna ten years earlier in the nearby Universitätsstrasse . It was designed as a reinforced concrete skeleton, filled with prefabricated elements: as announced in 1967 for the early start of construction, with three basement floors (including underground parking), ground floor, six upper floors and attic. After completion of the interior fittings and the gradual relocation of the departments to the new building, full operations began there in 1974 under Police President Karl Reidinger , who succeeded Josef Holaubek in 1972 . A helipad was set up on the roof and was used for the first time on January 20, 1977.

During the period in office of Police President Günther Bögl (1988–1995) there was a service apartment in the attic that he used.

Memorial plaques

Memorial plaque on the facade

A plaque attached to the front of the building in 1982 commemorates the victims of the Ringtheater fire in 1881, the worst theater fire in the history of Vienna, and of the Atonement House.

A memorial plaque donated by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in memory of the police officers murdered by the National Socialists was put up on November 1, 1946 at the then headquarters of the police headquarters in the Palais Archduke Wilhelm , with Interior Minister Oskar Helmer and Police President Arthur Klauser giving speeches. In 1974 this memorial plaque was placed in the vestibule of the police headquarters' ballroom on the first floor of the new building.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "New buildings for the police department and the Ministry of Finance" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1954, p. 2 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Supreme Court judgment from 1959 on commission claims for the purchase of the building plot of the new police headquarters
  3. ^ "Vienna's new police headquarters - built on the Ringtheatergrund" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 28, 1967, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ "Vienna's new police headquarters - built on the Ringtheatergrund" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 28, 1967, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ Vienna library in the town hall (ed.): "Heavier than air", 100 years of powered flight in Vienna. Exhibition catalog, Metroverlag, Vienna 2009.
  6. ^ Text and history of the memorial plaque and the fate of the police officers recorded on it

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 53 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 48"  E