Kriegerheimstätte settlement

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Residential houses in the Kriegerheimstätten settlement

The Kriegerheimstätten settlement in the 22nd district of Donaustadt in Vienna was built on a cooperative basis by war returnees after the First World War and is now partially a listed building .

geography

The Kriegerheimstätten settlement is located around 750 meters east of the old town center of Hirschstetten , but already belongs to the Aspern district , the extreme northwest of which it forms. It is separated from the rest of Aspern by the Marchegger Ostbahn route . The settlement is also the namesake of a census district for official statistics. The census district Kriegerheimstätte-Lackenjöchl also includes smaller settlements in the southeast of Breitenlees and had 10,310 inhabitants in the 2001 census.

history

In 1917 the Vienna City Council founded the Vienna War Returners Fund. Three war invalids - August Schina, Simon Zegarczuk and Franz Spandl - who found out about this after their return home in autumn 1919, after lengthy negotiations, obtained property belonging to the fund belonging to the local branch of the Vienna Regional Association of War Victims and Survivors of Austria for one year for the construction of Allotments were leased.

A program for the construction of residential houses that was drawn up by the three and presented to Mayor Jakob Reumann was rejected. However, the plan was pursued further and in a forced meeting of the board of trustees of the Kriegerheimstättenfonds, the approval for the construction of the houses was finally obtained. The preparatory work for the construction work on the area under building law began on January 17, 1921. The laying of the foundation stone took place on March 20th of the same year in the presence of the mayor.

The promises made in the speeches were only partially kept. Support for the construction of the first two blocks was given to the 1st Bau-Gartensiedlungs-, commercial productive cooperative of war victims in Austria, the Kriegerheimstätten Hirschstetten group , mainly from an English Quaker group that helped with food, money and donations in kind. This group was led by Lord Gilbert Murray and his wife Lady Mary Murray, who had set up a charitable foundation in memory of their late daughter Agnes Elisabeth Murray.

The houses in today's Schrebergasse, Quadenstrasse, Murraygasse, in the extended Spandlgasse and on Markweg were built according to plans by the architects Adolf Loos , George Karau , Franz Schuster and Franz Schacherl . The house type planned for the Friedensstadt settlement was further developed in that additional space could be gained through mezzanine floors. In 1928 the settlement consisted of 192 residential units with the house, a courtyard and a garden on a total area of ​​approximately 500 square meters each.

In 1931, with the establishment of the Invalidenheimstätte settlement cooperative, to which 69 houses belonged, the cooperative was split up. The reunification took place in 1941.

In 1945 the settlement was badly damaged. The repair of this damage lasted until 1948. The connection to the Vienna gas network took place after the Second World War and from 1968 the settlement was canalised .

literature

  • Franz Spandl and Johann Tvrz: 50 years of the non-profit building and settlement cooperative Kriegerheimstätten Hirschstetten . Non-profit building and settlement cooperative Kriegerheimstätten, Vienna 1971.
  • Adolf Damaschke , Ed .: Kriegerheimstätten, a question of fate for the German people. Lecture given by AD, Chairman of the Association of German Soil Reformers and the “Main Committee for Warrior Homes”. in public meeting convened by the German National Association for Austria on January 8, 1916 in Vienna. Verlag Bodenreform, Berlin 1916. Appendix: Peter Rosegger and Richard Weiskirchner on Kriegerheimstätten.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory 2001 Vienna , ed. v. Statistics Austria, Vienna 2005, p. 98.
  2. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 673.
  3. ↑ The lecture was initially sold separately in high editions (23,000 copies), then there was this new edition. in the series of publications of the association with appendix. In the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '  N , 16 ° 29'  E