Parliament building at the Viennese struggle race, in which the two chambers of the Austrian parliament meet, is called colloquially also "“the parliament"”.

Provisional parliament building

As a forerunner of the today's parliament building first a provisional Lower House in the road served 2-6 of the architect Ferdinand Fellner. After the beginning of the work to 12. March 1861 was finished the building within only six weeks and was on 25 April already ready for occupancy. The work was implemented also at the night during torch/flare lighting. The timber construction from building and roof framing had been already prefabricated on the building site of the carpenter Jakob Fellner in the when hereditary oh road 22. On the building site worked about 500 humans, who were supplemented by just as large number of workers of the building beside trade as carpenters, fitters and Spengler. In its essential structure the building already anticipated the structure of the later parliament building. Over a broad ramp one continued to arrive into the Vorhalle and into the meeting room. Over it was the Kaiserloge. 1861 were opened the interim solution, which was called after his chairman Anton von Schmerling soon as "“Schmerlingtheater"”. Up to the completion of the actual parliament building in the year 1884 the "“Schmerlingtheater"” was finally used as Lower House.

Today's parliament building

Today's parliament building was built 1873-1884 of Theophil of Hansen as seat of the realm advice. It has two clearly halves from each other set off, which correspond to the division in two parts at that time of the realm advice in manor-house and Lower House, originally even two separate buildings intended had been. The official name was "„realm advice building "“, the name "„parliament "“was however already from the outset used. 1918 were proclaimed on the 4 m high ramp the first Republic of Austria and the building with unchanged Giebel - he is decorated with the symbols of the 17 of the monarchy - was taken over. At the lower ends of the ramp lane are the bronze statues of as symbol of the suppression of passions, which the condition for a constructional parliamentary co-operation is. The Pallas Athene well before the parliament was only built between 1893 and 1902 by Carl Kundmann. Allegorisch represent the four lying figures the most important rivers of the monarchy: Danube and Inn in front, Elbe and Moldau in the back. Over it the woman figures represent the legislative and the carrying out force, towered above from the goddess of the wisdom, Pallas Athene, on the column. It holds a Speer in the left hand, in the right Nike.

The meeting room of the national council was destroyed 1945 by bomb hits and completely again developed afterwards. The 1956 finished new meeting room is a typical example of the architecture of the 1950er-Jahre and is to a large extent plain with the exception of a federal eagle driven in steel. Behind the Rednerpult is the government bank, which is completely occupied however usually only with important causes like the governmental declaration or the budget speech.

Since October 2005 knows the parliament from the struggle race side by a new visitor center will enter, which was again created in the context of an overall renovation.

Literature

• Hansen, Theophil of: That parliament house in Vienna, which can be built again. In: Magazine Austrian engineer and architect association, 1873, ISSN 0372-9605
• Wolf, Alfred: When suppl. approximately. District of the poets and philosophers. Vienna 1993
• Wolf, Alfred: When suppl. round chronicle. From the Roman time to the end of the monarchy. Vienna 1981

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