Mannersdorf factory settlement
The Mannersdorf settlement was created in 1953 for employees of the Perlmoos cement works in the north-western part of the municipality of Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge in Lower Austria .
The architect Roland Rainer won the competition for the construction of the factory housing estate with his design of a single-storey row house housing estate and then implemented it.
The residential units are designed to be small but spacious, with a living space of 56 m², or 60 m² with an additional bedroom, do not have a basement and have a storage room with an adjoining vegetable garden. The houses also have a small front garden and a covered seating area. The settlement also took on an ecological pioneering role with wastewater treatment with a subsequent pond, which is now overgrown with reeds and where wild birds have settled. With reference to and integration of the surrounding landscape, the estate was given a green space design with wind protection plants based on a plan by garden architect Viktor Mödlhammer. There is a children's playground with a paddling pool with a water slide made of artificial stone with mosaic inlay from 1952 by the sculptor Wander Bertoni .
The bungalow-like construction with flat roofs - based on the New Building - caused a sensation in rural areas in the 1950s and also rejection with the accusation of defacing the townscape. Architect Rainer wrote in one of his documentaries: Some residents expressed their displeasure by calling them Negerdorf or by relieving themselves on the flat roofs.
literature
- Magazine The small house Bauweltverlag, Berlin-Tempelhof, 1956th
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2. M to Z. Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge. Factory settlement <<Negerdorf>> accessible via Hanfretzweg. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , page 1278.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 42.6 " N , 16 ° 35 ′ 59.6" E