Schlagwort: 1100wien

In the listed branch of the Dorotheum auction house in the 10th district, built in 1929 according to plans by Arch. Michael Rosenauer, special auctions on the subject of „historical entertainment technology“ are also held in addition to weekly auctions.

The three-zone, cubist, block-like reinforced concrete building features slit-like, three-window groups spanning several storeys and houses a prestigious auction room on the first floor.

Rosenauer, who was open to new materials and construction techniques, was born in Wels in 1884 and studied under Karl König and Max Ferstel in Vienna in addition to his artistic training. Even before the Dorotheum was completed, he moved to London and contributed to the revitalization of slums and social housing, later planning residential buildings in elegant London districts. After a stay in the USA, he returned to London and designed, among other things, the administrative building of the Time-Life Group, which opened in 1953 with well-known sculptures by Henry Moore on the façade.

Named after the arch. Günther Domenig in the 10th district the Domenig House from 1979 is considered a major work of the avant-garde „Graz School“, a movement of the 2nd half of the 20th century with impressive cubatures and façades. Originally built as a bank building for the former Zentralsparkasse (now Bank Austria), it now functions as an office building for the Vienna Echo publishing house, among others.

The now listed „house with the kink“ directly between the subway and Victor-Adler-Markt has hardly any straight lines inside or out and features a sculpturally expressive self-supporting façade made of stainless steel panels, which is unusual for Vienna and appears to be squeezed between the neighboring buildings like sheds or veins.

Located directly behind the main railway station in the 10th district, the Favoriten substation from 1931 is a monumental functional building of the municipal electricity works in red Vienna, probably influenced by the constructivist industrial architecture of the Soviet October Revolution.

The Austrian arch. Eugen Kastner and Fritz Waage grouped massive, rectangular and round structures on the triangular spandrel plot to form a ship-like building. The industrial building, which is still in operation, was also used as a control center for the power supply in the south of Vienna and beyond until it was renovated in 1999/2000.

Due to its gloomy and deserted appearance, the site is also often used as a prison setting in feature films.

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The winged Lion of Saint Mark, based on a Venetian model, was first erected in 1869 in the magnificent South Station by Wilhelm Flattich together with 7 other lions on the edge of the roof. Since 2014, it can now also be seen again in the central station in restored condition as a landmark at the main entrance.

The figures, made by sculptor Franz Melnitzky, were probably an allusion to Austria’s claim to Venice, which had fallen to Austria at the Congress of Vienna as the „Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom“, but then had to be ceded again in the course of the Italian unification movement in 1866. During WWII, the South and East Stations were then severely damaged, six of the eight Lions of Saint Mark were destroyed. In the new building of the now structurally merged stations, completed in 1960, one of the Lion of Saint Mark was again presented in the lower ticket hall as a reminiscence of the times when Austria still extended to the Adriatic. The second undestroyed Lion of Saint Mark can be found today near the former Kaiserbahnhof in Laxenburg.

The central marshalling yard Vienna-Kledering in the 10th district, at the back of the Vienna Central Cemetery, was gradually put into operation in 1983 after a 5-year construction period and is the largest transfer station in Austria with its entry group consisting of 15 tracks and 48 tracks for lining up the freight cars.

Freight trains with up to 6,100 wagons are disassembled daily on the 120km-long track network via an unwinding mountain, reassembled and forwarded to their destinations via 10 tracks of the outbound group. After approaching, the wagons are uncoupled and then roll into the directional group as if by magic and only delayed by braking elements integrated in the tracks.

A power converter is also located on the site, which provides around 1/7 of the traction power required throughout Austria.

The „Vienna Central Station“ in the 10th district was built on the site of the former Südbahnhof and officially opened in October 2014 after being commissioned in stages and almost 20 years of preparatory work. It is now Austria’s largest train station with 16 platform tracks and around 20,000m2 of commercial space, over 1,000 trains with around 270,000 passengers are handled daily.

With the design of an elongated rhombus roof with staggered trapezoidal surfaces, realized by the Swiss architect Theo Hotz and partners, the city has for the first time a centralized transport hub for all long-distance trains with underground and suburban rail connections. A central prerequisite for the station was also the construction of the 9.4km Lainzer Tunnel, which has connected the Westbahn line since 2012.

A large number of new infrastructure facilities were built around the 50-hectare station area and, with the Belvedere Quarter and the Sonnwendviertel, 2 new urban districts.