City Building Directorate Vienna

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The Stadtbaudirektion Vienna or the city bauamt (historically, but unofficially still used) is part of the Vienna City Administration . The organizational unit is headed by City Planning Director Brigitte Jilka and has around 90 employees. The official name is "Magistratsdirektion - Building and Technology Division" (MD-BD). The Urban Planning Directorate is a unit of the Municipal Administration of the City of Vienna and reports to the Municipal Director.

history

The Vienna City Planning Office was founded on January 3, 1835 and existed until 1920 as a separate municipal office alongside the magistrate. Many plans in the course of the incorporation of the suburbs, 1850, and the suburbs, from 1890, for the city of Vienna (see: Viennese municipal districts ) were drawn up directly by officials of the Vienna City Building Office. Special tasks arose with the construction of the Vienna Ringstrasse, which began in 1858, when the city ​​wall was demolished , the Vienna Danube regulation from 1868–1875, the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 , the construction of the two Viennese high spring water pipes , 1870–1910, the demolition of the line wall and the expansion the Gürtelstrasse in the 1890s, with the Vienna river regulation carried out from 1895-1899 and the associated construction of the Vienna Stadtbahn until 1901. The expansion of public municipal facilities, such as the relocation and expansion of the Naschmarkt and the expansion of the hospitals, was up to the beginning of the first World War I, 1914, continued.

With the amendment of the municipal statute that came into force on June 1, 1920 through Lower Austrian provincial law (see: Vienna City Senate and Vienna Provincial Government ), the building management and the departments under its control became part of the magistrate. The change anticipated essential parts of the Vienna City Constitution , which came into force on November 18, 1920 and is based on the Federal Constitution passed on October 1, 1920 . Since November 18, 1920, the building management has also been part of the office of the Vienna provincial government.

The building authority played a very important role again in the years of “Red Vienna” up to 1934 with the implementation of the ambitious and internationally recognized building program of the city administration (including “ community buildings ”, baths, social facilities). The Karl-Marx-Hof , which was built until 1930 and for which Karl Ehn from the Vienna City Building Office had drawn up the plans, is still an icon from this period .

In the corporate state dictatorship , construction projects were greatly reduced, but the Wiener Höhenstraße, which opened in 1935 , was created to provide employment . In 1938/1939, the National Socialist dictatorship developed huge expansion and reconstruction plans for Greater Vienna , which had to be shelved due to the war.

In the bombing war of 1944 and 1945, enormous structural damage occurred in Vienna, which the building authorities were to occupy intensively for more than ten years from May 1945. In addition, however the communal housing (z. B. was resumed immediately Per-Albin-Hansson settlement first component, opened in 1951) and with buildings such as the Opera Passage opened in 1955, the 1,957 completed Matzleinsdorfer high-rise and in 1964 opened Gürtelbrücke the following symbolizes modernity.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the building authority had to provide decision-making aids for various transport projects (city highways, expansion of the Franz-Josefs-Kai , etc.), which for the most part had not been implemented for the benefit of the cityscape. The planning of the Vienna subway was not seriously tackled until the mid-1960s; until then the local political decision had been missing. For a while it was believed that lowering the tram would make do with the “ two-way line ” and on the belt. In the meantime, building the subway has long proven to be a task for many decades.

For private transport, among other things, the southeast bypass was opened in 1970-1993 . The 1972–1988 construction of the New Danube and the Vienna Danube Island , which significantly changed Vienna's urban landscape on the Danube, served flood protection and the creation of leisure areas .

Current focal points for the rapidly growing city are, for example, the implementation of the new school building program 2020 with 10 campus facilities and the school renovation package with over 100 objects, the coordination of construction and planning activities in the urban expansion areas (e.g. Seestadt Aspern, Vienna Central Station, former train station areas Nordbahnhof and Nordwestbahnhof) and the coordination of the construction site plans on Vienna's streets.

Parts of the city planning department

The City Planning Department includes:

  • Competence center for social and cultural infrastructure, operator service, user platform
  • Competence center for technical infrastructure, structural safety in public spaces
  • Competence center green and environment-related infrastructure, environment
  • Competence center for superordinate urban planning, smart city strategy, participation, gender planning
  • Competence center building research, regulatory construction, engineering, standards
  • Head of Real Estate Strategy, Infrastructure Requirements
  • Strategic Management
  • Administrative department for procurement matters and special tasks
  • Internal Services
  • Methods and Services department
  • Project management for Vienna railway areas
  • Project management Seestadt Aspern

Urban planning directors of Vienna since 1835

  • 1835–1864 Kajetan slate
  • 1865–1877 Rudolf Niernsee
  • 1877–1882 Hieronymus Arnberger
  • 1883–1903 Franz Berger
  • 1903–1913 Karl Sykora
  • 1913–1920 Heinrich Goldemund
  • 1920–1925 Max Fiebiger
  • 1925–1941 Franz Musil
  • 1945–1954 Johann Gundacker
  • 1954–1957 Ferdinand Hosnedl
  • 1957–1961 Aladar Pecht
  • 1961–1974 Rudolf Koller
  • 1974–1980 Anton Seda (1920–2000)
  • 1981–1988 Ernst Filz
  • 1988-1993 Herbert Bechyna
  • 1993-2008 Gerhard Weber
  • since 2008 Brigitte Jilka

literature

  • The historical development of the Vienna City Building Office. From the first beginnings to the present. Self-published by the Wiener Stadtbauamt, Vienna 1895, OBV . (2nd, supplemented edition, 1908, ÖNB ).
  • Rudolf Tillmann (Red.): Festschrift, published on the occasion of the centenary of the Vienna City Building Office on May 12, 1935 by the technicians of the Vienna City Building Office and the major technical companies of the City of Vienna. German publishing house for youth and people, Vienna 1935, OBV .
  • The Vienna City Building Office. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna (among others) 1965, OBV .
  • Heinrich Strasser (Red.): Activity of the Viennese city building authority and the city enterprises technical direction in the period from 1935 to 1965. A report in two volumes. Wiener Stadtbauamt, Vienna 1974, OBV .
  • Rudolf Gerlich (Red.), Kurt Stimmer (Ed.): 150 Years of the Vienna City Building Authority. 1835-1985. The structure. Compress-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-215-06097-3 .
  • Konrad Kowarc (Red.): 1965–1985. Documentation. The activities of the offices of the Vienna City Building Office in the period from 1965 to 1985. Compress-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900607-07-9 .
  • Erich Leischner (Ill.), Erich Bernard (Ed.): Office Power City. Erich Leischner and the Vienna City Building Office. On the occasion of the exhibition “Amt Macht Stadt. Erich Leischner and the Wiener Stadtbauamt ”from June 16 to August 2, 1999 in the Vienna Architecture Center. Pustet, Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-7025-0405-2 .
  • Gerhard Weber (ed.), Hans-Christian Heintschel (texts), Wolfgang Simlinger (photo): Metropolis Wien. Technology, urbanity, change. History of the City Planning Directorate 1986–2006. Carl Gerold's Verlagsbuchhandlung KG, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-900812-14-4 , table of contents online (PDF; 42 KB) .

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