Saint Marx slaughterhouse

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The slaughterhouse St. Marx in the 3rd district of Vienna highway was the largest slaughterhouse of Vienna important for the meat supply of the city . It was intended primarily for the slaughter of cattle as well as young and cattle, for which the slaughterhouse was compulsory from an early age .

location

According to a city map from 1956, he was

  • in the southeast at the height of the listed cattle market portal from the central cattle market ,
  • in the northeast at the level of Paulusgasse,
  • in the northwest of Schlachthausgasse and
  • bounded in the southwest by Viehmarktgasse.

history

In Vienna, slaughter took place primarily on bridges over the Danube Canal . Blood and slaughterhouse waste could easily be disposed of there. Sankt Marx in the east of the city was chosen as the location for the city slaughterhouse mainly because the cattle were mainly brought in from Hungary and sold at the cattle market here.

monarchy

The slaughterhouse in Sankt Marx was the first and largest of the five municipal slaughterhouses. All were intended for the slaughter of large cattle, for which, in contrast to pigs and other small cattle, the slaughterhouse was compulsory.

It was built between 1846 and 1848, but only started operating in 1851 after the revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire . The rectangular structure was 230 meters long and 176 meters wide. From 1900 it had a cooling system with a total of 2866 square meters on two floors. The system, like the mechanical equipment, came from the Prague mechanical engineering company formerly Ruston.

From 1867 two additional administration buildings and other structures were built. After 1870 the slaughterhouse was converted from the previous "French chamber system" to the "German hall system".

Although the Sankt Marx slaughterhouse was officially only used for slaughtering cattle, from 1896 pigs were also slaughtered in a room in the 5th department. When the pig slaughterhouse opened in 1910, pig slaughter was stopped here.

First republic

In 1921 the Sankt Marx slaughterhouse, which was the first of the city slaughterhouses to be modernized after the First World War, had four slaughterhouses

  • 102 stable sections for 2278 cattle
  • 5 slaughterhouses with 202 slaughterhouses,
  • 42 slaughterhouses with 143 slaughterhouses with a capacity of 1380 slaughterings per day.

In the later years further extensions were built, including a calf slaughterhouse with a casing laundry in 1923. On June 16, 1924, a newly built cattle slaughterhouse was put into operation. At the same time, compulsory slaughterhouses for cattle were introduced in Vienna.

Second republic

In September 1967 the local council committee responsible for economic affairs was informed by councilor Pius Michael Prutscher about the status of the preparatory work for a new slaughterhouse in Sankt Marx, for which detailed planning had begun.

Since more and more new slaughterhouses were being built or expanded and modernized in the area around Vienna and European comparisons showed that municipal slaughterhouses were losing more and more market shares compared to privately run slaughterhouses, both a maximum and an expandable minimum variant should be developed with the help of the Danish expert NE Wernberg.

Reasons for the planned new building were

  • the poor hygienic conditions,
  • the poor physical safety of the staff,
  • the desire to receive the so-called EEC number in order to be able to carry out export slaughter,
  • the implementation of epidemic slaughter and
  • coping with import slaughter.

On November 12, 1968, the ÖVP politicians and city council Pius Michael Prutscher presented in the Vienna City Council to request basically agree, the construction of a slaughterhouse and stockyard and a meat wholesale market on the site of the central livestock market Sankt Marx. The motion was passed unanimously.

Construction work began in March 1970. In mid-December 1969, at the request of City Councilor Hubert Pfoch, the financing of the slaughtering equipment for the cattle market, the meat market and the cooling block was approved. The topping-out ceremony for the shell of the meat market took place in late March 1970th In November 1974, City Councilor Hans Mayr opened the pig slaughterhouse with the associated cold storage facility and waiting stalls. The final opening of the Sankt Marx meat center took place in September 1975 by City Councilor Hubert Pfoch on behalf of Mayor Leopold Gratz .

The City of Vienna created a new municipal department, MA 55, to manage the new meat center. Walter Jurcik was appointed first head of Municipal Department 55 - Sankt Marx Market and Slaughterhouse.

In order to fight against the downturn in business after an interim high and also because of the costs for the general renovation that became necessary after around 20 years of operation, the plan was developed to rebuild the slaughterhouse and operate it privately. Most of the costs for the new building were to be borne by the city, but the city was to sell significant land that would become available.

The "Wiener Schlachthof St. Marx Planungs-, Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft mbH", founded especially in 1992, was to appear as the operator of the new slaughterhouse. The third owners of the new company were

A construction time of around 27 months was planned. Since the planned form of financing did not comply with the EU guidelines - Austria joined the European Union on January 1, 1995 - the new building plans were broken.

The decline in slaughtering in the Sankt Marx slaughterhouse and a negative assessment of the further economic development in business and local political studies for the slaughterhouse resulted in its closure in 1997. The last 50 cattle were slaughtered in December 1997 and the slaughterhouse was finally closed at the end of the year. A redundancy plan came into effect for around 160 employees .

"Late effects"

It was only four years after the closure of the Sankt Marx slaughterhouse that the 1994 ordinance on veterinary examination fees was repealed with the publication of the State Law Gazette 61/2001.

description

The old slaughterhouse, which was built by an unknown master builder with the assistance of the lower chamber adjunct Joseph Melnitzky and supported by Mayor Ignaz Czapka , was the first regular technical and economic facility to be built here.

The complex was built around a rectangular courtyard symmetrically to the central axis. On the Viehmarktgasse there were the same designed buildings of the slaughterhouse administration and the investigation center, separated by a lattice gate.

literature

  • Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century - A leader in technical and artistic direction . Published by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, first volume, published by Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1905
  • Das neue Wien, Städtewerk, published with the official cooperation of the Municipality of Vienna , Volume II, Vienna, 1927
  • Das neue Wien, Städtewerk, published with the official cooperation of the Municipality of Vienna , Volume III, Vienna, 1927
  • The new pig slaughterhouse in III. Districts in Vienna , Publishing House of the Magistrate of the Imperial and Royal Capital and Residence City of Vienna, Vienna, 1910

Web links

Commons : Schlachthof Sankt Marx  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century
  2. ^ Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien-vienna.at
  4. ↑ The new pig slaughterhouse ...
  5. ↑ The New Vienna, Volume II
  6. ↑ Das neue Wien, Volume III
  7. ↑ The New Vienna, Volume II
  8. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, September 21, 1967, sheet 2661
  9. ^ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, November 22, 1968, sheet 3383
  10. ^ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, November 11, 1974, sheet 2728
  11. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, December 17, 1969, sheet 3706
  12. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, March 27, 1970, sheet 817
  13. ^ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, November 11, 1974, sheet 2729
  14. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, September 3, 1975, sheet 2191
  15. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, January 16, 1975, sheet 88
  16. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/1994/0118/010.html
  17. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/1996/0123/007.html
  18. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/1997/1003/014.html
  19. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2001/0730/003.html

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 26.9 ″  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 10.2 ″  E