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[ Bratislava ] The Manderla Building

3/30/2022

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Stuck between Kamanné Námestie Square featuring the abandoned modernist architecture jewel known as 'Hotel Kyjev' and the Old Market Hall, a very interesting building is standing tall since the mid 1930s in the heart of Bratislava just a 5-minute walk away from Banco Casino.
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It is reported that 1884 born and well-traveled Rudolf Manderla, an heir of a local butcher and entrepreneur family, was the one to order the construction of this residential and commercial building ultimately named after him.

The 10-storey tall skyscraper was the first of its kind in downtown Bratislava and the very first high-rise building in today's Slovakia. Naturally, it got a lot of attention during its record time building of 18 months between 1933 and 1935. Popularly, the building designed by architects Christian Ludwig, Emerich Spitzer and Augustine Daniel was often referred to as 'Manderlák'.
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The Old Market Hall
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Kamanné Námestie Square feat. modernist architecture jewel, Hotel Kyjev
The building opened in 1935 featuring a big 'Manderla' sign high above the street level. On the ground floor, the most famous butcher shop in town opened . People with low revenue were fed there almost for free and were allowed to eat in front of the shop as a publicity stunt while social elite members were gathering in the Grand Café higher up under multiple floors of chic residential apartments.

​The Manderlas were deported from Czechoslovakia along with a series of German families after WWII, their business was nationalised and later incorporated into the Western Slovak state meat company. Rudolf Manderla was able to survive his deportation, made his way back to the West but skipped Bratislava and preferred to settle in Vienna where he died in the late 1960s at age 84.

Today, the building hosts snacks and fast food shops on the ground floor with, in the meanwhile, old-fashioned flats above them and the Grand Café serves now as ... a bingo hall. Up for some skill game, anyone?
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Manderla apartment and commercial block info taken from www.register-architektury.sk
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  • current function
    mixed
  • address
    Námestie SNP 23, Bratislava
  • architects
    Ludwig Christian, Spitzer Emerich, Danielis Augustín
  • project
    1933 – 1934
  • implementation
    1935

Construction of the first true high-rise building in Bratislava was initiated by a wholesale meat dealer, Rudolf Manderla, who had frequently visited the USA and wished to build something at home similar in its ambitions to the trans-Atlantic structures he admired. He approached a number of designers with his offer of cooperation until he decided on the group of three architects mentioned above. The essential concept of the buildings is based on the assumption of the maximum utilisation of the land, for construction of a multi-storey apartment block. The spatial, volume and structural solutions were reached by the architects relatively quickly; more complex was the search for an exterior appearance. In the end, the builder decided on a relatively austere architecture with marked vertical strips along the facade growing into the roof structure with its inscriptions.
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The structure of Slovakia’s first skyscraper is a reinforced-concrete skeleton, of eight axes after the fifth floor and (after the 10th floor) four-axial. In the ground floor there is a modern variant of the vaulted passageway and an organically bent arcade with entrance into smaller shops. The architects planned the parterre as entirely glass, which further increased its sense of air and lightness. On the second floor were offices, and a large cafe with a view of the city. The highly demanding construction work was entrusted to the Bratislava branch office of the important Viennese company Pittel & Brausewetter.
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‘Manderlák’, as the tower was previously known in the city, arose on one of the most exposed construction sites in all of Czechoslovakia during the First Republic: the square known as ‘Námestí republiky’. It was here, at the edge of the historic urban core, that the modern “Prachtstrasse” emerged, of Functionalist commercial palaces for the leading business institutions. These new structures rose high above the original peripheral buildings and turned the former outlying market place into a new urban centre. The eleven-storey Manderla tower, however, managed to be provocative even in this environment, both with its height and its positioning outside of the street line. Yet what enraged traditionalists appealed greatly to the artistic set of the Slovak capital: the ‘skyscraper shifted above the square” fascinated them and the Grand Cafe in the second floor was long a favoured meeting place for them.

Bibliography:
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Hochhaus Manderla in Pressburg. Forum 5, 1935, s. 184 – 186.
Foltyn, Ladislav: Slovenská architektúra 1918 – 1938 a česká avantgarda. Bratislava, SAS 1993, s. 152 – 153, 155.
Moravčíková Henrieta: Tradícia a novátorstvo v architektonickom diele Christiana Ludwiga. Architektúra & Urbanizmus 31, 1997, 4, s. 197 – 198.
Dulla, Matúš - Moravčíková, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002, s. 96 – 97.
Moravčíková, Henrieta: Dva modely prijímania moderny na Slovensku: Fridrich Weinwurm a Christian Ludwig. Architektúra & Urbanizmus 40, 2006, 3 – 4, s. 131 – 154.


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