Quarinhof
The Quarinhof is an urban residential complex in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten . It is located at Quaringasse 16 and is a listed building.
Building description
In place of a Wilhelminian-style residential building from 1904, the Quarinhof was built in 1924–1925 as one of the first favored municipal housing developments as part of the extensive housing program of the Red Vienna by the architects Hans Jaksch and Siegfried Theiss . The complex comprises 124 apartments and is designed as a three-sided block edge development around a central courtyard. During the construction, special attention was paid to children living in the residential complex. Already the name after the doctor Joseph von Quarin , who founded the first Viennese foundling house , refers to it. The south facade in Quaringasse is open to ensure sufficient light penetration into the courtyard. There is a kindergarten in a central location, which shows reliefs on the outer facade that thematize the motif of childhood.
The side wings on the rising streets of Braunspergengasse and Zur Spinnerin are six storeys high , while the facade on Quaringasse is gradually lowered until only one storey remains in the middle above the gate entrance. The entire base zone, which includes business premises in Quaringasse, is accentuated all around by exposed bricks. Likewise, the one floor above the wide gate with wrought iron grille, in which there is a kindergarten, is designed with dark glazed clinker bricks. Between the windows of this archway there are four large ceramic reliefs by Ferdinand Opitz , which depict mothers with children. The corner windows on the building edges, which show ornamental reliefs on glazed tiles by Othmar Schimkowitz , were also artistically designed . The emphasis on the use of exposed bricks as design elements is related to the location of the residential complex on Wienerberg , where bricks were traditionally made. The original fountain figures by Oskar Thiede in the inner courtyard no longer exist. The wall paintings in the kindergarten are by Fritz Zerritsch the Younger . A plaque commemorates Anton Mayer, a communist who lived here and was executed in 1943.
literature
- Herbert Tschulk: Viennese district culture guide favorites . Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1985
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna Volume 4 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996
Web links
- Quarinhof municipal housing in the digital cultural property register of the City of Vienna (PDF file)
- Quarin courtyard. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 14.7 ″ E