Haus Wittgenstein

The Wittgenstein House is a building in Vienna's 3rd district road that originally served as living quarters for Margaret Stonborough -Wittgenstein. It was designed by her brother, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in collaboration with the architect Paul Engelmann, a student of Adolf Loos.

The planning began in 1925, the end of 1928 the house was purchased. Margaret Stonborough -Wittgenstein lived there until her death in 1958, except for the period of their exile in the United States ( 1940-1947 ). Her son Thomas Stonborough sold it in 1971 to the contractor Franz Katlein, the land value after a redesignation for high-rise buildings increased to three times for the. On the property is a high-rise building of the Main Association of Social Insurance Institutions should arise. After violent protests, which included a petition from renowned Viennese architect, the house Wittgenstein was declared a National Monument, the old garden but was cut down and built the high-rise building in the immediate vicinity of the villa. 1975 acquired the People's Republic of Bulgaria the house. Today it is used by some alterations in the Bulgarian Cultural Institute.

The Wittgenstein House follows the Modernist style and reminds externally very similar to the architecture of the Bauhaus.

" Ludwig recorded every window, every door, every bar of the window, each radiator with precision, as if they were precision instruments and in the most noble dimensions, and he then continued with his uncompromising energy that things were also performed with the same accuracy "

The House of Wittgenstein Kundmanngasse from

The Wittgenstein House (right) in today's situation