Social Housing Leopoldine-Glöckel-Hof
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Location number: 1120005
Gemeindebau
Innenhof
Lift
Stiege
Stiegenhaus
Wohnhausanlage
Wiese
1930er
Innen- & Außenbereich
Lift
Erdgeschoss
During the Civil War, heavy fighting took place in the large municipal housing complexes in the surrounding area; the residential complex designed by Josef Frank was also a site of these clashes in February 1934. The building was named “Leopoldine-Glöckel-Hof” on September 12, 1949, by Mayor Theodor Körner, and the attic was converted in the 1950s. The “Leopoldine-Glöckel-Hof,” designed by Viennese architect Josef Frank, is located on the so-called “Ringstraße des Proletariats” and was conceived as a closed perimeter block development. A sophisticated color scheme in light pastel tones, combined with varying window sizes and projecting balconies, breaks up the monotony of the long façades, making the five-story structure appear like a sequence of individually designed houses. Despite largely dispensing with ornamentation—apart from white frames around the façade openings—the complex is considered one of the most striking residential buildings of the 1930s. Leopoldine Glöckel was born in Vienna on November 12, 1871, and was an educator and Social Democratic politician. As the wife of the school reformer Otto Glöckel, she was active in women’s organizations such as the General Austrian Women’s Association, joined the Social Democratic Party of Austria, and from 1919 onward served as a member of the Vienna City Council and the Provincial Parliament. She was imprisoned during the Civil War in 1934, died on May 21, 1937, and is commemorated by a memorial plaque in the courtyard.
