
Freihofsiedlung
Vienna, Austria
The biggest garden city of Vienna.
Garden City Type: | Mixed (housing association / municipality / other) |
Country: | Austria |
City: | Vienna |
Years of construction: |
1923 Start construction 1927 Completion
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Initiator/client: | The cooperatives "Mein Heim", "Aus's own strength" and "Am Freihof" were involved, coordinated by the Vienna City of the Settlement Office. |
Architect or related: |
Karl Schartelmüller Karl Schartelmüller (13 May 1884 – 30 October 1947) was an Austrian architect. He studied architecture and mechanical engineering. Shortly before the First World War, he entered the service of the community of Vienna, where he worked as an official architect in the city planning office, a position he continued until shortly before |
Heritage status: | No |
General condition of Garden City: | Good condition |
General description
The Freihofsiedlung was built in its basic features from 1923 to 1927 and originally intended as a small settlement (99 houses) for employees of the e- and gas work, as well as the tramway. Later it was extended several times.
In cooperation with the settlement cooperatives "Mein Heim", "Aus eigener Kraft" and "Am Freihof", a total of 1,014 apartments were built in 687 individual properties. This, the largest garden town in Vienna, is largely cooperative, but there are two communal residential buildings, also designed by Schartelmüller.
Architecture / Urban planning
Freihofsiedlung is bordered by the road Am Freihof in the North, Afritschgasse and the Siebenbürgerstraße in the East, Kagraner Anger in the South, and in the West by Natorpgasse, Maurichgasse and Komzakgasse.
The streets are laid out irregularly and partially curved or around corners. Along the streets are long fronts of two-storey terraced houses with gardens at the back.
Through numerous changes in the following decades, the original aesthetic proximity to the simultaneous municipal buildings of the early ("expressionist") phase has been sanded down, but can still be seen in some details.
Sources
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Wikipedia [in German]