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100 years of Red Vienna

A hundred years ago, social democracy began making Vienna a city worth living in for everyone. The socialist municipal policy of "Red Vienna" left its mark not only on society. The cityscape also changed forever with its "social housing buildings". Which still stand today.

Karl Marx Hof, exterior view

100 years of Red Vienna

How social democracy began making Vienna a city worth living in for everyone a hundred years ago.

Social housing building, Reumannhof, exterior view

Vienna's most important social housing buildings

Red Vienna not only provided affordable living space but also ensured that the numerous social housing buildings …

Karl Marx Hof, exterior view, park

A Museum in the Laundry Room

"Red Vienna in the Laundry Room" deals with the history of the city of Vienna and the mark left on it by social democracy.

Werkbund Estate

Werkbund Estate

The Werkbund Estate combines the great architects of the pioneering age of Modernism like nowhere else in Vienna. Adolf Loos designed plans for the model …

Karl Marx Hof, exterior view, park

Social housing

In the 1920s, the city of Vienna began to build social housing for the countless workers who came to Vienna from elsewhere in the Empire. Today, the …

Kitchen from 1926

More than a fitted kitchen

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky is known nowadays, if at all, as the inventor of the fitted kitchen. But the Viennese architect was more than that. …