Wiener Kontumazanlage

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The Viennese Kontumazanlage was built in the immediate vicinity of the Sankt Marx slaughterhouse and the Vienna Central Cattle Market. It should give the cattle breeders the opportunity to market and slaughter cattle that are not in perfect condition, also from a veterinary police point of view. At the same time, the meat supply in Vienna should be improved. After the Second World War, the name foreign slaughterhouse became established . The term Kontumaz (Latin contumacia) was a common word for quarantine in the 19th century .

location

According to a city map from 1956, the Viennese Kontumazanlage was

  • in the north of Döblerhofstraße,
  • in the east of Molitorgasse (today about Modecenterstraße),
  • in the south of the tracks of the Schlachthausbahn (today a footpath on the former embankment) in the course of Urschenböckstraße (which then extended further to the east) and
  • bounded in the west by the slaughterhouse railway track, which leads in the direction of the Danube Canal , ends between the Zentralviehmarkt and the pig slaughterhouse in front of Baumgasse and is sometimes called the Szállásen Railway.

history

As early as 1898, the City of Vienna made the first attempt to set up a Kontumazmarkt. However, the municipal council resolution of March 18 this year was not implemented because the government did not declare the central cattle market to be a free trade market.

After long negotiations, an agreement between the city and the government was not adopted by the municipal council until February 18, 1913. According to this convention

  • The City of Vienna undertook to erect a Kontumazanlage for slaughter cattle and cattle with an epidemic farm and market department as soon as possible east of the route for the planned extension of the Landstraßer Belt on the Viehmarktbahn in Vienna's 11th district .
  • the city undertook to draw up the necessary plans in agreement with the Agriculture Ministry.
  • the government committed itself to a contribution of 300,000 kroner.
  • the government undertook to obtain a donation of 700,000 kroner from the general deposit bank entrusted with the management of the cattle and meat market in Sankt Marx .

From May 1913 onwards, a first draft, drawn up by the Vienna City Building Office, could be discussed with representatives of the Agriculture Ministry, the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy, the management of the State Railway Company, the cattle dealers and buyers. The final plan drawn up on the basis of these negotiations was approved on June 27, 1914 by a decree of the Agriculture Ministry and on July 10, 1914 by the local council. The municipal council decided to buy the required land in its meetings on October 9 and December 20, 1913.

Because of the outbreak of the First World War, the offer negotiations advertised for August 20, 1914 were postponed indefinitely. In spite of this, a main sewer of the Viennese sewer system , which opened into the Favoritner collecting sewer that crossed the Zentralviehmarkt, a track branching off from the Viehmarktbahn and large parts of the necessary land fill were built.

The shortage of skilled workers and materials and the low productivity of the workers weakened by the lack of food delayed the construction work, which finally began in September 1916. In 1921 construction work halted due to the city's lack of funds. However, since the Federal Government realized that the Kontumaz plant was not only important for the meat supply of the city ​​ruled by social democrats , but also for the protection of domestic livestock from animal diseases brought in from abroad, the city was given a loan which made the completion possible in March 1922. Mayor Jakob Reumann handed over the Kontumazanlage to use on May 3, 1922 .

Since the slaughterhouse of the Viennese Kontumazanlage was not used to capacity at the beginning, the Viennese central horse slaughterhouse was closed on December 8, 1922. In addition, in March 1924 the wholesaling of horse meat permitted in the wholesale market hall from 1918 was relocated from Invalidenstrasse to the Kontumaz facility. On April 18, 1924, the Kontumaz slaughter horse market was finally relocated to Sankt Marx with Tuesday as market day.

The Kontumaz facility, which in the last few years of its existence was known as a foreign slaughterhouse, was used from 1975 for art and cultural presentations by autonomous student and alternative youth groups. When the area called the arena was occupied later , the buildings could not be saved from being demolished around 1977. The city provided the empty pig slaughterhouse as a replacement and new location for alternative cultural activities.

description

The Viennese Kontumazanlage was built by the Viennese construction company Rella & Neffe in the immediate vicinity of the Simmering gasworks according to plans by the architect Friedrich Jäckel of the Vienna City Building Authority.

The facility was laid out in the pavilion system along a main axis starting from the railway system, with a structure using transverse axes and small squares. While the lowest buildings were at the loading docks, their height increased slowly with increasing distance. A crossbar with a gable and arch formed the border between the functional area and the administrative area on the Franzosengraben. In architecture, forms from the Wiener Werkstätte were used for the first time in the industrial sector.

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literature

  • The new Kontumazanlage for slaughter and stech cattle in Vienna, separate print from the magazine of the Austrian. Engineers and Architects' Associations, issue 19/20, Vienna, 1922
  • Vienna at the beginning of the XX. Century - A guide in the technical and artistic direction, published by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, first volume, published by Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1905
  • Das neue Wien, Städtewerk, published with the official cooperation of the Municipality of Vienna, Volume II, Vienna, 1927
  • Das neue Wien, Städtewerk, published with the official cooperation of the Municipality of Vienna, Volume III, Vienna, 1927
  • Austrian art topography , published by the Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office, Volume XLIV, Die Kunstdenkmäler Vienna - The profane buildings of the 3rd, 4th and 5th district, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1980
  • Isabella Ackerl , Harald A. Jahn: Unknown Vienna - Hidden Beauty - Shimmering Splendor , Pichler-Verlag, Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85431-513-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The New Vienna, Volume II
  2. ^ Austrian Art Topography, Volume XLIV
  3. ^ Austrian Art Topography, Volume XLIV

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 5.4 "  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 45.6"  E