Wiedenbrunn factory housing estate

Aerial view from a hot air balloon

Former workers' house in the Wiedenbrunn housing estate at Albertstraße 9 & 11

Former workers' house in the Wiedenbrunn industrial estate at Herminenstrasse 15

The Wiedenbrunn settlement is a working-class district of the city of Berndorf in Lower Austria, which today is largely a listed building. Due to its historical development in the 19th century, Berndorf itself is also known as the Krupp city.

history

In the 19th century, the metal industry in Berndorf, due to constant expansion, became the main source of income for the local population. There were around 50 houses with 180 inhabitants around 1844 when the company under Alexander Schoeller and Hermann Krupp began producing cutlery with 50 workers. This company later developed under Arthur Krupp into a global corporation with 6000 employees. The Krupp family had the Wiedenbrunn (and Margareten ) districts built at the company's expense for the influx of workers and employees , between 1880 and 1918 a total of 260 houses with over 1,100 apartments.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from April 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of May 30, 2011 (PDF).
2. ^ ASL:  The workers' colony of the Berndorfer metal goods factory Arthur Krupp in Berndorf. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1912, (Volume LXXVII), p. 43 f. (Text) (Online at ANNO ). and
   A. SL:  the workers' colony of the Berndorfer metal goods factory Arthur Krupp in Berndorf. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1912, (Volume LXXVII), pp. 11–15 (plans) (online at ANNO ). .

Web links

Commons : Werksiedlung Wiedenbrunn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '53 "  N , 16 ° 6' 28"  E