Pig slaughterhouse in Vienna
The pig slaughterhouse or pig slaughterhouse of the City of Vienna was located in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of the Sankt Marx central cattle market and was part of the meat supply in Vienna .
Slaughterhouses
Until the opening of the pig slaughterhouse, there were independent butchers in addition to the slaughterhouses
- the slaughterhouse of the productive society of Wiener Fleischselcher am Erdbergermais and
- M. Wotraubek's large-scale pig slaughterhouse in Erdberger Strasse as larger, privately run facilities worth mentioning as well
- the so-called Notstechbrücke on Vienna's Zentralviehmarkt ,
- a room in the 5th department of the slaughterhouse Sankt Marx and
- a department in the Meidling slaughterhouse as a public slaughterhouse for pigs . These public bridges were closed with the opening of the pig slaughterhouse.
location
According to a city map from 1956, the pig slaughterhouse was
- in the northeast from Baumgasse,
- in the southeast of the extension of the Franzosengraben (meanwhile the Franzosengraben has actually been extended, in 1910 the Landstraßer Gürtel was given as the address ),
- in the southwest of Döblerhofstrasse
- in the northwest of the direction Donau channel leading and ending between central livestock market and pigs slaughterhouse before Baumgasse sometimes referred to as track Szállásenbahn the slaughterhouse path limited.
history
From around 1875 negotiations were held in Vienna about the construction of a municipal pig slaughterhouse. On September 25, 1895, the Vienna City Council passed the fundamental resolution to introduce compulsory slaughterhouses for pigs and, associated with this, to set up their own slaughterhouse near the central cattle market.
The question of location was controversial.
The proposal made in 1896 to acquire and expand the pig slaughterhouse of the Produktivgesellschaft der Wiener Fleischselcher on the Erdbergermais on the other side of Baumgasse did not prevail. It was not until 1898 that the planned construction of an epidemic farm and Kontumazmarkt on urban land beyond the section of the cattle market railway called the Szállásenbahn was abandoned, that a building site became free here.
The Fleischselcher cooperative was against the construction of the pig slaughterhouse as a forced slaughterhouse. It was only around 1900 that she was able to get used to the idea of building a slaughterhouse for voluntary use.
On June 16, 1905, the Vienna City Council took the fundamental decision to build a voluntary pig slaughterhouse on the other side of the Szállásen Railway at the intersection of Baumgasse and Landstraßer Gürtel (the extension of which was planned here, now Franzosengraben) with a capacity of 600 slaughterings a day. The finished detailed project was approved on November 29, 1907. Construction began in April 1908, completion in February 1910 and the opening followed in June 1910.
Since many of the private slaughterhouses were closed during the First World War and the supply of pigs increased again due to the abolition of the war-related state management, the capacity of the facility had to be increased by enlarging the cold room and purchasing additional trolleys.
description
The pig slaughterhouse was built according to plans by the Vienna City Building Office under the direction of engineers Max Fiebiger and Theodor Frosch. The administration building was built in historical brick forms, while the slaughter and stable buildings are iron constructions.
- The stables contained 700 meat and 800 fat pigs in stands made of polished concrete walls.
- The animals collected in waiting pens reached the scalding hall through doors, where they were slaughtered in the pens and then scalded in hot water kettles in order to be dehaired afterwards.
- The dead animals were cut up in the slaughterhouse.
- In a covered passage, the pigs were either picked up from waiting wagons or forwarded to the cold store.
- The cold store was divided into two equal halves. One half served alternately on a daily basis either as a pre-cooling room with + 15 to + 20 degrees Celsius or as a cooling room with + 5 to + 8 degrees Celsius. Cork slabs served as insulation material. Cooling was either with well water or a carbon dioxide refrigerator.
- The machine system consisted of the carbon dioxide refrigerator and a tandem superheated steam machine with the associated boiler system.
- The one-story administration building on the corner of Baumgasse and Franzosengraben housed the necessary office rooms as well as apartments for the gatekeeper, a slaughterhouse servant and the slaughterhouse manager.
- The medical facility was located on the southern fence near the unloading ramp and had its own exit. It comprised a dissecting room and two storage rooms for animals and parts of animals complained about by the medical police.
- In the intestinal laundry, the intestines of the slaughtered animals were emptied, cleaned and degreased to extract all of the fat.
- In the sterilization facility, which was housed in a separate building next to the administration building, pork, which had previously had to be disposed of by the municipal washer-maintenance facility, was made edible by sterilization. The company was run by a cooperative.
arena
The Viennese Kontumazanlage , which in the last years of its existence was known as a foreign slaughterhouse , was used from 1975 for the art and culture presentations of autonomous student and alternative youth groups. When the area called the arena was occupied later, the buildings could not be saved from being demolished around 1977. The empty pig slaughterhouse was made available by the city as a replacement and new location for alternative cultural activities and has since been used as an alternative cultural center , especially for youth culture, concerts of various styles and other music events. It is run by the Forum Arena Wien association, which works autonomously and on a grassroots basis .
Web links
literature
- 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
- Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century - A guide in the 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
- Austrian art topography , published by the Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office, Volume XLIV, Die Kunstdenkmäler Vienna - The profane buildings of the 3rd, 4th and 5th district , Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980
Footnotes
- ↑ Technical guide through Vienna
- ↑ The new pig slaughterhouse ...
- ↑ The new pig slaughterhouse ...
- ^ Austrian Art Topography, Volume XLIV
- ↑ The new pig slaughterhouse ...
- ↑ The country road in old and new times
- ↑ The new pig slaughterhouse ...
- ↑ The New Vienna, Volume II
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 15.2 " N , 16 ° 24 ′ 46.6" E