!!!Stahlbauweise

Steel Construction: In the 19%%sup th/%  century cast-iron girders 
were first used for roof construction (Dianabad and Sophienbad 
swimming baths in Vienna, 1841-1845; Vienna State Opera, opened in 
1869). Iron constructions were also used for covered passageways (for 
the first time in Vienna in 1845), station halls (Wiener Westbahnhof 
and Nordbahnhof stations, 1857-1865), the Rotunde (1873) and abattoirs 
(Vienna 1880-1883). In building construction, the first iron and steel 
constructions were used for the "Eisernes Haus" ("Iron 
House") in Graz (1848) and for the Haas-Haus building in Vienna 
(1865-1867). From 1849 the structural elements for many buildings were 
supplied by the Viennese steel construction firm Gridl (e.g. for the 
Palm House in the gardens of Schoenbrunn Palace, 1882). The first 
steel-framed buildings (still with facings) date from the time between 
the two world wars (high-rise building in Herrengasse street, 
1%%sup st/%  district of Vienna, 1931-1933, tobacco factory in Linz, 
1932). The office tower of the Zeltweg ironworks (Styria) was built as 
an all-steel structure in 1961/62.

!Literature
M. Wehdorn, Die Bautechnik der Wiener Ringstrasse, 1979.


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