Talk:Karl-Marx-Hof

message: Initial translation 15 July 2005.
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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)
thread_title: Untitled

message: How many residents does it have? That would be valuable to know. ~ Dpr 22:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: The bottom of the third paragraph is a bit POV, no? Unless it's an unsourced quotation...
Moyabrit 16:44, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV comments 

message: In the lead we have:
best-known Gemeindebauten (English: municipal tenement complexes)
but in the civil war section:
 the Februaraufstand (German: February Uprising) of the 1934 Österreichischer Bürgerkrieg (German: Austrian Civil War)
Should the language be what the part in brackets is in, or a reference to the language of the original word/term? I don't know which myself, but I think it should at least be consistent. --86.173.140.91 (talk) 19:33, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  language 

message: I don't know who had this comic idea, but "Ringstrasse des Proletariats" is the "Wiener Gürtel" (a semi-annular boulevard encircling parts of the old Vienna) and NOT the Karl Marx Hof! How could one call a building a boulevard? this makes absolutely no sense!
reference for the right information can be found here: 
http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2711897/
so I deleted this text from the article:
"and was called the Ringstraße des Proletariats, the Ring-road of the Proletariat. (Vienna's principal Ringstraße, dating from the 1850s, surrounds the city centre and had been intended as a showcase for the grandeur and glory of the Habsburg Empire)."
--Horia mar (talk) 02:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ringstrasse des Proletariats 

message: I would argue that the so called “insurgence” were just workers and soldiers of the paramilitary of the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) and not insurgence.
They were freedom fighters in the name of democracy as the Christian Social Party just dissolved the parliament and forbid the SPÖ as a political party. Economist to be (talk) 23:16, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fighters in the complex