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STATS Social Housing for Everyone Afer the foundation of the First Austrian Republic (1918) and the creation of Vienna as a separate region (1922), the city’s ruling Social Democrats set Europe’s most ambitious program for social housing into motion. FACTS - NEARLY 65,000 new, modern and affordable GEMEINDEBAU flats were built by the city 2 government from 61 m average size of a flat 1919 to 1934, 1 METZLEINSTALER HOF 2 RABENHOF before Austro-fascists and (built 1920 & 1923/24) (built 1925-28) Nazis stopped the program. ROBERT KALESA & HUBERT GESSNER HEINRICH SCHMID & HERMANN AICHINGER 2,000 Mayor Jakob Reumann Mayor Karl Seitz The building resumed afer Vienna’s first-ever Gemeindebau was The site was intended to exude the “romantic the war, making the city of building complexes built in two stages and designed separately charms of a little town.” It also hosts the Vienna the biggest by two architects. Rabenhof theater. landlord in Europe. 220,000 flats (living units) > 500,000 residents (more than 1/4 of Vienna’s population) 3 KARL-MARX-HOF 4 PER-ALBIN-HANSSON- 5 NEW GEMEINDEBAU – (built 1927-33) SIEDLUNG FONTANASTRASSE KARL EHN (built 1947–1951 & 1954-1955) (to be completed 2017-2019) Mayor Karl Seitz FRIEDRICH PANGRATZ, FRANZ SCHUSTER, STEPHAN NMPB ARCHITEKTEN ZT GMBH WIEN 2 One of Vienna's biggest Gemeindebaus SIMONY & EUGEN WÖRLE Mayors Michael Häupl & Michael Ludwig > 13 MILLION m (150,000 m2, 1,382 flats, 5,000 residents) Mayors Theodor Körner & Franz Jonas After a 13-year hiatus, Red Vienna is once of total area rented out was the scene of fights in Austria’s The first new Gemeindebau after World War II again building new Gemeindebauten, starting civil war in 1934. bears the name of Sweden’s wartime prime with this 120-flat project in the 10th district. Source: Wiener Wohnen. minister, in gratitude for aid after the war. DONAUTURM Donaupark 252 m 250 m m 250 m High-rise Vienna Donau City 202 Handelskai DC TOWER 1 165 m The southern tower of the 200 m Döbling m MILLENNIUM TOWER m 150 m 162 m 155 Donau City 138 Stephansdom was completed SENDEMAST KAHLENBERGDonau City Landstraße Wienerberg IZD TOWER in 1433 and was the highest 150 m FUNKTURM ARSENAL HOCHHAUS NEUE DONAU VIENNA TWIN TOWER I 137 m building in Europe for 50 Innere Stadt years. Austria’s highest 100 m STEPHANSDOM building today, the Donau- turm, was built in 1962−64 for 500 m the Vienna International Horticultural Exhibition ’64. 0 m SEPTEMBER 2018 23.

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