Zacherlhaus
The Zacherlhaus in the inner city of Vienna is a residential and commercial building designed in the reform style by the Slovenian architect and Otto Wagner student Josef Plečnik . It was built from 1903 to 1905 on the property at Brandstätte 6 / Wildpretmarkt 2-4 / Bauernmarkt 5. It is also called Wanzenburg based on the insecticide sold by Zacherl .
Plečnik was 31 years old when construction began and worked mainly in Vienna until 1913, before working in Prague and then for decades in Ljubljana . The client, Johann Evangelist Zacherl, was the son of the factory owner Johann Zacherl , the founder of the Zacherlfabrik , where insecticides were produced.
Zacherl had the building erected as one of the first modern-style houses on Wildpretmarkt and Brandstätte in Vienna's old town. The fire site was only created as a traffic area in 1875 after the houses surrounding the former fire site had been demolished.
For the facade Plečnik chose gray, polished granite slabs. The artfully designed, overhanging eaves is remarkable. The figure on the facade, which represents the Archangel Michael , was created by Ferdinand Andri , the atlases are by Franz Metzner . In the oval staircase there is an insect-like lighting fixture, which, like Archangel Michael, the conqueror of unclean spirits, refers to the insect powder with which the Zacherl family got rich.
In 1949, the house, which had been damaged in the Second World War , had to be restored. The listed building is one of the most important buildings of the Otto Wagner School today . It is owned by the descendants of Johann Zacherl and serves as an office building. The architectural significance of the Zacherlhaus becomes clear when you compare it with the style of other new buildings in Vienna from this period, which were often designed in the style of historicism , which Archduke Franz Ferdinand valued the heir to the throne .
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Eave with atlases
Facade to the fire site
Ferdinand Andri : Sculpture of the Archangel Michael on the facade
Staircase
Staircase
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 684.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 35.7 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17.5 ″ E