Vienna Central Horse Slaughterhouse
The Vienna Central Horse Slaughterhouse in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten was the only one of its kind in Vienna . It was intended for the slaughter of horses, which had a share in Vienna's meat supply .
location
The Vienna Central Horse Slaughterhouse stretched parallel to the Hüttenbrennergasse, which ran from southwest to northeast, on its east side. The Senngasse formed the southern border. Kreißlegasse and a stretch of road known as the extended Geiereckstrasse formed the property boundaries in the north and east. The main entrance was on Schoberplatz at the intersection of Hüttenbrennergasse, Senngasse and Schlechtastraße, which was being built at the same time as the construction work on the slaughterhouse.
Since the end of the Second World War there have been some changes in the course of the road. Hüttenbrennergasse was interrupted by an allotment garden. The section that remained at the northwestern end was combined with Schlechtastraße and renamed accordingly, and Senngasse no longer connects to Geiereckstraße. Schoberplatz no longer exists.
All of the street names mentioned are no longer available in Favoriten.
history
Until the introduction of compulsory slaughterhouses, horses were slaughtered either in the private slaughterhouses of the horse butchers or in public slaughter bridges. Mainly because of the incorporation of the suburbs, the number of slaughterings was increasing:
- 1891: 7,314 horses
- 1907: 10,857 horses at horse butcher shops and another 9398 in Sankt Marx .
Previous buildings
- A first horse battle bridge was put into operation in Brigittenau in 1854 . On July 8, 1884, the Vienna City Council decided to shut it down, and it was closed on May 1, 1885.
- This provisional arrangement was replaced by another provisional arrangement connected to the Vienna Zentralviehmarkt in Sankt Marx.
Central horse slaughterhouse
In view of the increasing number of slaughterings in Vienna, mainly due to the incorporation of the suburbs, and in order to be able to introduce the complete slaughterhouse obligation, the Vienna City Council decided on June 4, 1897 to build a central horse slaughterhouse and to purchase the necessary land from the Vienna Citizens Hospital Fund.
Due to various requests for changes and concerns about the location of the slaughterhouse, the immediate execution of the construction project approved by the local council on March 23, 1900 was delayed. It was not until September 1, 1904, that the construction of the horse slaughterhouse was finally approved according to the revised plans.
The main problems with the construction work started in March 1906 were the significant differences in level on the construction site and the associated embankments, the type of subsoil and the groundwater level. The differences in level were compensated for by two courtyards at different heights and connected by two ramp structures. In addition, some of the buildings were designed so that they could be accessed from both courtyards. Nevertheless, it had to be piled up to a height of seven meters.
The central horse slaughterhouse was opened in May 1908.
Since the slaughtering facilities of the Viennese Kontumazanlage, which opened in 1922, were not sufficiently used at the beginning, the 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.
Reuse
In the vicinity of the horse slaughterhouse, in Arsenalstrasse and Gänsbachergasse, the municipality of Vienna set up the City of Vienna's asylum and work center to accommodate the homeless and the unemployed . When there was a lack of space here, it was expanded in 1925 to include the disused central horse slaughterhouse. Today, the headquarters of the municipal department MA 33 'Vienna Lights', which is responsible for public lighting and public clocks, is located on the extended area .
description
The central horse slaughterhouse, built according to plans by Josef Viktor Fidelius Klingsbigl , consisted of six buildings:
- In addition to an office room, the gatekeeper's house also contained an apartment for the goalkeeper.
- The one-storey administration building with a basement housed the office rooms equipped with telephones, among other things, two apartments for veterinarians.
- The tiered stable and slaughterhouse building housed stables for 198 horses in the basement. The slaughterhouse above it at street level had 59 slaughterhouses.
- The back of the tiered fertilizer house connected to the Kreißlegasse building line.
- The ramp system, a little more than 60 meters long and 8.5 meters wide, connected the upper and lower courtyards. In the vaults of the building were the medical battle bridge, two Kontuma stables for a total of 20 horses, the machine house and the cooling system.
- In the one-storey annex building there was, among other things, the meat inspection room, where horse meat brought to Vienna from abroad was checked by a veterinarian, as well as rooms that were rented to companies involved in the processing of by-products. Food for the horses was stored on the upper floor.
Horse market
The city horse market was established between 1883 and 1885 at Siebenbrunnenfeldgasse 5 in Margareten and was the only market for horses, donkeys, mules and mules in the municipality.
In January 1907 the Vienna City Council decided to purchase a piece of land to the east of the area of the Central Horse Slaughterhouse in order to be able to relocate the butcher's horse market in the 5th district of Margareten.
From December 1922 the Kontumazschlächter horse market took place in the Viennese Kontumazanlage. Market day was Tuesday.
From 1951 the Theodor-Körner-Hof was built here.
Slaughterhouse compulsory for horses
The slaughterhouse obligation for horses initially applied to districts 1 to 20, but was only implemented in districts 1 to 9 and 20.
On the basis of a city council resolution of March 17, 1905, the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy was asked to make slaughterhouse compulsory in the districts that had come to Vienna by the law of December 28, 1904, and to prohibit the construction of new and existing private slaughterhouses for equine animals in application of the trade regulations . Their continued operation should only be permitted until they have been assigned to a public slaughterhouse. There was only a transitional regulation for the 21st district.
In order to avoid circumventing the compulsory slaughterhouse in Vienna, a municipal council resolution of November 29, 1907 passed a provincial law after the meat of horses slaughtered outside Vienna had to be subjected to a fee-based meat inspection in the central horse slaughterhouse before being sold in Vienna.
literature
- The new central horse slaughterhouse in the 10th district in Vienna , publisher of the magistrate of the imperial capital and residence city of Vienna, Vienna, 1908
Footnotes
- ↑ The New Vienna, Volume II
- ^ Karl Sablik: Julius Tandler, page 247
- ↑ Public lighting, traffic lights and clocks (MA 33 - Wien Leuchtet) ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Josef Viktor Fidelius Klingsbigl
- ↑ The information given by the AzW in the Klingsbigl biography regarding the preserved facade and use by the Viennese disinfection institute cannot be correct for geographical reasons.
- ^ The new Vienna, Volume II, City Horse Market
- ↑ Das neue Wien, Volume II, The Kontumazmarkt in the Wiener Kontumazanlage
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 42.9 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 54.7 ″ E