People's Residence Palace
Volkswohnpalast , also known as Volkswohnungspalast, is an ironic name for the representative large community buildings of the Vienna interwar period. The expression goes back to a polemical essay by Josef Frank from 1926. The social democrat and supporter of the settler movement Frank turned in his much-cited essay, using the example of Hubert Gessner's Reumannhof, against the “honeycomb system” and the castle typology of the municipal monumental buildings with their “1000 to 2000 dwellings”. The line advocated by Gessner and other pupils of Otto Wagner remained dominant, however, and propagandist spoke of the Margaret Belt as a “ring road of the proletariat”, also of the “Versailles of the workers”. "People's residential palaces" such as the Karl-Marx-Hof and Friedrich-Engels-Hof , some of which did not only incorporate elements of baroque palace architecture, but also symbolized defensibility, were also politically criticized as symbolic buildings of potential military rebellion, especially after the February uprising in 1934 . The term was picked up by the principled opponents of Viennese municipal housing and rejected by its supporters as a political abusive term.
literature
- Nanni Harbordt: Das Rote Wien- The municipal housing as a “Versailles of the workers”. Munich 2010
- Friedrich Achleitner : The backward-looking utopia: Motor of progress in Viennese architecture? Vienna 1994
- Helmut Weihsmann: The Red Vienna: Social Democratic Architecture and Local Politics 1919-1934 . Vienna 1985
- Wilfried Posch : The Vienna garden city movement . Vienna 1981
- Wolfgang Hösl, Gottfried Pirhofer: Living in Vienna . 1988
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The People's Residence. A speech on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone that was not given , Der Aufbau 7, 1926.