To the eye of God

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To the eye of God

To the eye of God is the name of a late baroque house in Vienna - Mariahilf . It is located at Gumpendorfer Straße 73 at the corner of Hofmühlgasse and is a listed building . The building, erected around 1780, served as a residential building for the then rising entrepreneurial class in what was then the Viennese suburb of Gumpendorf . Originally it was a triangular building, in 1822 the courtyard wing was added.

architecture

The three-storey suburban house from the Josephine era has panel décor as stylistic features, the windows are grouped into strips, two central axes at the house entrance gate are accentuated by grooves. There is also a decorative pipe decor and an additively structured side facade. The rectangular courtyard has open walkways on three sides through which the individual apartments can be reached.

The house gate is in the middle of the narrower main facade on Gumpendorfer Straße. There are shops on the ground floor here, a bakery shop also ran a little to the right, two window axes, into the building front in Hofmühlgasse, which was exactly twice as long. These two facades enclose a slightly obtuse angle of 106 ° on the floor plan. The narrow courtyard of the house is exactly rectangular and is now enclosed by 4 building wings on this property.

Today the roof space is developed as an attic . The tiled roof areas were divided up for this purpose. Flatter sheet metal roof surfaces at the top are less visible and offer more space below. On the two sides of the roof there is only a regular row of sheet metal-clad dormers with mansard windows, but on the courtyard roof sides there are more irregular constructions and other structures arranged on two floors.

  • Front to Gumpendorfer Strasse, early 20th century

  • Gumpendorfer Strasse in the 1950s

  • Inner courtyard with the pawlatschen passages , 1950s

literature

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '40.7 "  N , 16 ° 21' 2.5"  E