To enable the miners to live close to the mines, the Austrian-Alpine Mining Company built houses with small gardens for self-sufficiency.
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The settlement in Knappenberg above Hüttenberg, with its 154 terraced houses, is one of the most important settlements of the interwar period.
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During construction, consideration was given to the characteristics of the site and every tree in order to create the image of an organically grown settlement.
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Arranged in groups of two, four, six and eight houses, there are four house types of different sizes as well as a department store whose pointed arch arcades are reminiscent of Expressionism.
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The Knappensiedlung was built between 1921 and 1923 by the Viennese architects Siegfried Theiß and Hans Jaksch, who also built municipal buildings for Red Vienna and the Vienna Reichsbrücke - a prestige project of the corporative state in the 1930s.
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