Union-Baugesellschaft (Vienna)
| Union construction company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1871 |
| resolution | 1980 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Universale Baugesellschaft AG |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Branch | Construction industry |
The Union-Baugesellschaft (also to be found under Union-Bau-Gesellschaft , Unionbaugesellschaft ) was a building construction and civil engineering company based in Vienna from 1871 to 1980. The corporation was the contractor for many prestigious buildings in Austria, including some large ring roads .
history
The company is one of 41 construction companies founded in Vienna between 1896 and 1872 and one of five that played a major role in the city expansion of Vienna that began in 1858. It was founded at the end of 1871 with a capital of 4 million guilders by the Vienna Union Bank , which itself was only founded in 1870 and was taken over by the Bodencreditanstalt in 1926 . Your initial seat was at Ebendorferstrasse 6 in the 1st district of Vienna . The company survived the crash at the beginning of the world exhibition from May 1873.
The Union Baumaterialien-Gesellschaft (UBM) , which she founded and took over the brickworks and carpentry businesses, was set up on March 3, 1873 . The shares were traded on April 10, 1873. More brick factories were taken over and the company became the second largest brick manufacturer in the monarchy and had a share of around 30 percent of the Vienna brick market. In the years 1912/1913 the Allgemeine Baugesellschaft A. Porr AG took over the majority share in this company in order to be as independent as possible in the brick supply. After construction activity declined, UBM sold all brickworks to Wienerberger Ziegelfabriks- und Baugesellschaft in 1916 in exchange for building land in Vienna, withdrew completely from the production business and limited itself to the real estate business.
In 1997 it was renamed UBM Realitätenentwicklung Aktiengesellschaft . In 2003/2004 A. Porr AG reduced its stake from 75 to below 50 percent. In 2014, the Porr stake was again increased to a majority stake.
The Union-Baugesellschaft acquired extensive grounds in all locations in Vienna, as well as in Kaltenbach in 1873 . She also owned quarries in Sommerein , Mannersdorf and Breitenbrunn . From 1881 to 1899 the company owned the quarries for the Lasa marble , Tyrolean marble and porphyry works of the Union Baugesellschaft .
From 1884 she worked on the parceling of the Wienerberger owned Freihaus auf der Wieden . In 1910 she headed a consortium created for this purpose from Wienerberger Ziegelfabriks AG , Union Baumaterialien Gesellschaft , Creditanstalt , Eskomptegesellschaft and Länderbank .
Between 1945 and 1950/1955 at the latest, the individual companies in occupied post-war Austria were under the separate control of the respective occupying powers.
In 1965 the Union-Baugesellschaft merged with the company H. Rella & Co. to form the prefabricated construction consortium , which took over the FIORIO system under license, which was developed in the early 1950s by the brothers Henri and Georges Fiorio in France.
In 1980 the company was taken over by Universale Baugesellschaft AG , which in turn was ultimately taken over by Alpine Holding in 2002 .
Realized construction projects (selection)
- 1873 - Rotunda (Vienna)
- 1872 - Hotel and Restaurant Kahlenberg (only foundations built into the new building)
- 1874 - Group of houses (so-called "Bartenstein block"), Vienna 1, Bartensteingasse 1–5 / Doblhoffgasse 5–9 / Auerspergstraße 2–6 / Reichsrathsplatz (today Schmerlingplatz ) 1–3
- 1876 - Hotel Sacher
- 1877 - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- around 1880 - Arcade houses to the left and right of the Vienna City Hall
- 1885 - Group of houses, Vienna 1, (Bürgerspitalgrund) Führichgasse / Gluckgasse / Tegetthoffstraße
- 1881 - Palace of Justice (Vienna)
- 1883 - Reichsrat building
- 1883 - Vienna City Hall (at the entrance under the arcades, at least at the opening, there was a portrait of the head of the Union building company at the time)
- 1884 - Ziererhof, a little later Philipphof
- 1893 or 1913 new parts of the Hofburg
- 1896 - Gasometer (Vienna)
- 1896 - Breitensee pumping station
- 1898 - Parts of the Vienna light rail
- 1904 - Police building Rossauer Lände
- 1905 - North ramp of the Tauern Railway from Schwarzach - St. Veit to Badgastein
- 1916 - Relocation of a chapel from the Rosalienkirche in Freihaus to Vienna's Naschmarkt , now the chapel on the Naschmarkt
- 1938–1955 - Kaprun power station
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Franz Baltzarek, Alfred Hoffmann, Hannes Stekl: Economy and Society of the Vienna City Expansion , Volume 5 of The Vienna Ringstrasse. Bild einer Epoche , F. Steiner, 1975, ISBN 3-515-02098-5 , p. 181
- ^ City of Vienna (Ed.): Das neue Wien: Städtewerk , Volume 1, 1926, p. 374
- ↑ Knowing and understanding markets ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - EU expansion to the east / Interview with UBM board member Peter Maitz, May 3, 2004, Bau-Zeitung of Wiener Wirtschaftsverlag
- ↑ Vera Mayer: Prefabricated housing estates in Vienna and Bratislava between vision, everyday life and innovation , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3698-6 , p. 50
