Rusk house
The listed building at Kärntner Strasse 11 / Weihburggasse 2 in Vienna's 1st district of Inner City is colloquially referred to as the zwiebackhaus (also business house zwieback ) , which was built in 1895 for the brothers Ludwig, Samuel and Emanuel Zwieback based on a design by the architect Friedrich Schön .
history
In order to erect the eight-storey building , the so-called Muffathaus, built in 1797 by the heirs of the court organist and composer Gottlieb Muffat , was used in which Johann Strauss (son) lived with his first wife Jetty Treffz for a time in the 1860s and Ignaz Bittmann, a successful children's fashion store , since 1879 -Business operation, demolished. The client for the new building were the zwieback brothers, who had been running a women's clothing store in Mariahilfer Strasse 111, at the corner of Webgasse, called "Ludwig rusk & brother" since 1877 .
The corner house, built in the late historical style, was made smaller than the previous building, which meant that the previously existing bottleneck on Kärntner Straße could be eliminated. As one of the first houses in Vienna, concrete pillars were used for the load-bearing structure . The facade of the house, decorated with gold ornamentation, was given large shop windows on the ground floor, arched windows on the top floor and thermal baths on the top floor . The zwieback brothers' women's clothing store was on the lower three floors, while the upper floors were used for offices and production.
In 1910 the business premises and the facade were redesigned by the architect Friedrich Ohmann . The house received a corner bay from the 2nd floor . In 1921 Ella Zirner-Zwieback, heiress of "Ludwig Zwieback & Bruder", acquired the adjoining Pereirapalais at Weihburggasse 4 and had the ground floor converted into a Café Zwieback in 1922 by the architects Friedrich Ohmann and August Kirstein . At the beginning of the thirties Ella Zirner-Zwieback rented the café to the former Austro-Hungarian Army Hussar officers Count Paul Pálffy , Count Peter Pálffy and Baron Sonjok, who opened the restaurant “ To the Three Hussars ” there.
After Austria was annexed to Hitler- Germany in 1938 , the entire property of the Zwieback family was forcibly armed : the buildings at Kärntner Strasse 11 and Weihburggasse 4 went to the Zentralsparkasse of the municipality of Vienna , while the restaurant “Zu den drei Husaren” went to the Berlin restaurateur who was close to the Nazis Otto Horcher left. Ella Zirner-zwieback and her son Ludwig Zirner emigrated to the United States in the same year .
During the Vienna Offensive of the Red Army in April 1945, the biscuit house was hit by a bullet, the pressure wave covered the roof and caused glass damage. Further hits in the area damaged the facade of the house through pressure and splinters. After the end of the war, Ella Zirner-zwieback and her son sued the republic for restitution , but only got the business part of the house back in 1951. In 1957 the family sold what was left and left Austria for good.
During later repairs, the facade was simplified and the corner bay was removed. In 1972 a renovation was carried out by the architect Hannes Lintl . In 2009, Bank Austria, as the legal successor to Zentralsparkasse der Gemeinde Wien, sold the building to Signa Holding , which completely renovated the building. In 2017–18, Apple converted the three floors of the zwieback family's previous store into the first Apple store in Austria.
literature
- Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna . Kremayr & Scheriau publishing house, Vienna 1992–2004
- Paul Harrer-Lucienfeld: Vienna, its houses, people and culture. Vienna 1952–1957
- Catharina Christ: Jewish k. and k. Purveyors to the court in the textile industry with a branch in Vienna from 1870 to 1938 . Diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 2000.
- Andreas Lehne: Viennese department stores 1865–1914 . Vienna: Deuticke 1990 (research and contributions to Viennese city history, 20), pp. 160–165
- Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian architecture in the 20th century . A guide. Volume 3/1: Vienna. 1st - 12th District. Salzburg: Residenz-Verlag 1990, p. 65
- Paul Kortz: Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. A guide in a technical and artistic direction . Edited by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling 1906. Volume 2, 1906, p. 366
Web links
- Commercial building_Zwieback in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 24.7 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 18.6 ″ E