Electrician in Döbling, 1190 Wien.

Döbling grew together from ten once independent villages, from Unter- and Oberdöbling out to Kahlenbergerdorf, and hardly two of them are built alike. Along Döblinger Hauptstraße stand mostly tenements from around 1900 to 1910, with lower suburban houses from the time of Joseph II and the Biedermeier period in between, some of them built around 1840. At Hasenauerstraße, which here divides Döbling from Währing, the Döbling part of the Cottageviertel begins, with villas built from the 1870s onwards, and on the Hohe Warte stand the houses Josef Hoffmann designed for Steinfeldgasse between 1900 and 1911. The old wine villages in the valleys of the streams that run down from the Vienna Woods, Grinzing, Sievering, Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf, have kept their village centres, and the central parts of Grinzing, Sievering and Neustift are protection zones (Schutzzonen). Down in Heiligenstadt stands the Karl-Marx-Hof, built between 1927 and 1930, with a frontage of almost 1,200 metres and 1,272 flats today.

Döbling's reputation as a villa district hides the fact that the largest group of its buildings dates from 1945 to 1980, such as the estate at Krottenbachstraße 106 with its 24 four-storey blocks or the Anton-Proksch-Hof on Grinzinger Straße, and that a quarter of the people here live in council housing (Gemeindebau) or other public housing. For us these are three different places to work. In a tenement on the Hauptstraße we find a consumer unit from the days before RCDs and cabling that has been extended over decades. In a villa in the Cottageviertel it is a house connection and a meter cabinet in the cellar that often nobody has opened for years. In a sixties estate it is a flat with too few sockets. The list price is the same everywhere between the Gürtel and the Kahlenberg, in Grinzing as in Heiligenstadt, and we charge the call-out of 69 € once per visit.