Talk:Karl-Marx-Hof
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Initial translation 15 July 2005.
Some additions / clarifications:
(1) It is not precise enough to say that Karl-Marx-Hof "was built by the Social Democrats". It was one of the largest public housing / council housing projects of the City of Vienna (kommunaler Wohnbau). However, up to the early 1930s the city council was dominated by the Social Democrats ("Rotes Wien", i.e. "Red Vienna"), and it was they who had introduced the idea of council housing.
(2) Up to the present day, Döbling has been a predominantly Conservative district of Vienna, so when Karl-Marx-Hof was built it was erected right next to traditional bourgeois and upper-class residential areas.
(3) The innovative thing about the estate was that each apartment had running water and its own toilet (no showers let alone bathtubs though). Up till then, privately-owned apartment houses had not been equipped with such amenities.
(4) Karl-Marx-Hof was not "remodelled" in the 1980s. What exactly is that supposed to mean? Of course over the decades it was adapted to contemporary living standards: Central heating, lifts, double glazing were introduced, individual residents had bathrooms built in their apartments, etc.
<KF> 17:14, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
- That's great info! Why don't you add it to the article? Laura1822 19:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] how long is long
We are told it is the..
- ..longest single residential building in the world.
but we are not told how long it is. Stbalbach 18:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
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- Measured in the online city map, it is about 1100m. And 4 stops, including the ones at the end, i.e. three line sections. --Ikar.us 19:39:38, 2005-07-15 (UTC)
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[edit] Population
How many residents does it have? That would be valuable to know. ~ Dpr 22:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
As Far as i know it has about 1500 Families living in it which would then mean about 4500 - 6500 People Living in it. But you shoulnt forget that it was built for much more people. I think from what i remeber ist was built for 10.000 people but lots of flats where connected to each other and so on. But it still is a small city in itself
