Zacherlhaus

The so-called Zacherl House in Vienna is a building designed by the Slovenian architect Otto Wagner and Josef students Plečnik residential and commercial buildings. It was built from 1903 to 1905 in the 1st district of Vienna, Inner City, the land Brandstätte 6 or Wildpretmarkt 2-4 and Farmer's Market 5.

Plečnik was at the start of construction 31 years old and worked until 1913 mainly in Vienna, before he worked in Prague and then for decades in Ljubljana. The builder, Johann Evangelist Zacherl, was the son of the factory owner Johann Zacherl, the founder of the Zacherl factory, were made in the insecticide.

Zacherl had the building as one of the first houses built in the modern style Wildpretmarkt and fire place in the old city of Vienna. The conflagration had been created as a traffic area until 1875, after the fire surrounding the former instead houses had been demolished.

For the façade Plečnik chose gray, polished granite slabs. Also noteworthy is the artfully designed, overhanging eaves. The figure on the facade, the Archangel Michael depicting created Ferdinand Andri, the atlases derived from Franz Metzner. In the oval staircase there is a insect-like lighting fixture that points just as the Archangel Michael ( the conqueror of evil spirits ) on the insect powder with which the family Zacherl was rich.

1949 had to be made to the damaged in World War II house restoration work. The listed building is now one of the most important buildings of the Otto -Wagner- school and seems to in architectural guides. It is in the possession of the descendants of Johann Zacherl and serves as an office building. The architectural significance of the Zacherl House reveals itself when compared with the style of other buildings in Vienna from this period, which were often designed in the style of historicism, as it estimated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.