Karl-Marx-Hof: The Longest Building In The World?

[@sarcasmo57]

I used to live in that building. My girlfriend at the time also lived in it. But we broke up because long distance relationships are hard.

[@BadWebDiver]

I saw what you did there... ;)

[@annaalcott6838]

why did you live at one end and she lived at the other end..that´s certainly long distance LOL

[@andrewtpk1601]

*Based on a true story*

[@web2yt488]

Nice daddy

[@conroads2626]

@Maddux Lance awww a bot so not annoying

[@litzzon1]

Just imaging you want to pick up a friend or meet with one, and he says: I'm in front of the Karl-Marx-Hof.

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Usually that just refers to the „main entrance“ in front of the Station Heiligenstadt, so it’s actually quite understandable when someone says that.

[@sC-vk8xi]

everyone who lives in vienna / know the karl marx hof knows what place is meant. there is one main entrance right infront of the subway station, pretty easy actually

[@patrikpotocki6255]

But what if he says meet me at the corner xD

[@WiseSloth1978]

I actually had that issue once 🤨

[@type17]

Time for what3words.com!

[@philiphugoofficial]

If you could stand this building on its end *you would annoy a lot of residents* Love it!

[@Autoskip]

@Golden Eagle No idea, but NASA would thank you for making a space elevator.

[@bluesifer8238]

@@Autoskip if you laid it on its side it would be almost identical to how it is now, if you stood it on its end, it would reach up to the stratosphere.

[@dhpbear2]

If you could stand this building on its end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised :) (apologies to Dorothy Parker)

[@uropig]

If we tip over the Burj Khalifa, it'll become the longest building.

[@marvin6936]

@@uropig na

[@lynth]

"I need to lose weight." -"Well, start off by running around your house to warm up." "Not that much weight."

[@mediocreman6323]

In fact, those buildings were called “Arbeiterburgen”, or, in English, “fortresses of the working class“. Which they actually were. I mean, it says a lot if a building has to be pounded by artillery in the event of an uprising…

[@PatricioGarcia1973]

Those front iron gates reminded me of some military compounds or some jails.

[@mediocreman6323]

@@PatricioGarcia1973 - they were called “working class fortresses” for a reason ;-) Also, similar buildings of that age also have this kind of gate, it is only after WW2 that the buildings lost their castle-like character.

[@mediocreman6323]

@Social Dissidence - the thing is, it is actually very comfortable to live here. You will practically always have playgrounds, shops, doctors, kindergartens,… _inside_ the building complex, in my case, although the complex was younger and thus no longer of the “fortress”-type, even my primary school was there, and since I almost lived door to door to my school, it took less than a minute to get there. There are actually great places, if you should come to Vienna, a “Gemeinedebau” is absolutely on any must-see-list.

[@zsoltsandor3814]

@@mediocreman6323 hello from your once Imperial brother city, Budapest. Vienna is definitely the most familiar of foreign cities, I would love to live there. I don't speak German though, especially Austrian German, even though I have a bit of a passive understanding thanks to spending a few days each summer for a few years there when I was a kid, and also the early morning cartoons on Sat1, Pro7, and RTL on cable when I was a kid. And that weird ball instructing phone game on Sat1. :D

[@paul95923]

They were called "Gemeindebauten". Not Arbeiterburgen

[@nizvkfb7vsbvrsct723]

I see that building nearly every day and never really realised how obnoxiously long it is 😂

[@OHYS]

nizvkfb7vs bvrsct Wow, how on earth didn't you notice

[@nizvkfb7vsbvrsct723]

@@OHYS always thought it was multiple buildings built in the same style.

[@phenix8514]

@@OHYS I actually never really realized it too, when you drive through it, you don't really get any view of how long it is, and when you drive along it, you usually watch the road, and don't realize its all just one building. Then again, I live outside Vienna, and don't get there very often lol.

[@viennatransgirl]

It's kind of easy not to notice. It's not a high building, same as all the others around, and it's broken up by streets going through it with arches above them.

[@-davorite-]

Ich finde das Wort obnoxiously äußert obnoxiously zum lesen

[@markusz4447]

Imagine leading your dog around the house a couple of times a day lol

[@Azivegu]

every 6 hours is leg day

[@PreNeanderthal]

You'd have to have a suitcase to carry all the poop bags you needed to take with you.

[@sandman.38]

PreNeanderthal, Poop dealer tings

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

PreNeanderthal Nah, here in vienna we have public poop bag dispensers mounted on our public trash bins. So no poop suitcase is needed

[@chocomanger6873]

5 km is pretty doable actually. I would just do one time a day though probably.

[@MrThijmenmees]

Just a little tip: there's a better way to measure building length on Google Maps. Right click on one end of the building, select "measure distance" and then click on the other end of the building. You can get way more precise and easy measurements that way

[@Raggo12345]

Thanks for the great tip! I tried the function in Google Maps and found that the areal for the building in Warzaw is 19778,96 m2 or 212898,96ft2. Great tool! :)

[@paxundpeace9970]

I do think that he used google maps

[@speedstyle.]

@@paxundpeace9970 Yes, but he used the walking directions feature to get distance measurements, rather than the straight ruler distances it can give.

[@bradlemmond]

That's how I figured out I live almost exactly 7 miles due south of, and directly in line with, the airport runway.

[@rachelcookie321]

I’ve been doing this for years now since they taught us how to do it at school for one specific assignment. It is actually very useful and I use it a lot.

[@jellevandervelde704]

KDF seebad Rügen was a never finished nazi hotel intended to stretch 4.5 kilometers. A couple of things happened and it never got finished, a couple more things happened and today the surviving 3 kilometers are slowly being renovated for vacation and housing purposes. There are some gaps inbetween complexes but it's definitely a long building worth checking out

[@Quasihamster]

Nowhere near this one. Each piece is about 500 meters.

[@majan6267]

@@Quasihamster Well, here they just bridge the pieces together, it's debateable if that should make a difference

[@adamnagy6808]

The Prora, it IS longer than Kar-Marx-Hof. Use google/google earth.

[@adamnagy6808]

@@Quasihamster No man, 550m but the walk around distance (perimeter) exceeds Kar-Marx-Hof. So the winner is the Prora.

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

@@majan6267 What matters to me is that there are NO gaps.

[@ModelMinutes]

Watched a man walk outside a building. 10/10 would watch again ☺️

[@Phineas_Freak]

To be fair it is an intereating building

[@bjornolson6527]

The tip-tap footsteps nearly kept pace with my heart’s excitement.

[@lenny108]

they even have a museum in that building. Formerly this was the washhouse of the Karl-Marx Hof. But since people are having now their own washing machine in every apartment they turned this washhouse into a museum about the history of the Social Democratic municipal administration of the city of Vienna

[@hoizhockaaut-gamingundco6341]

0:55 I think that is why there are so many people seen on the left hand side of the video.

[@pronak4410]

@@hoizhockaaut-gamingundco6341 Seems like the museum is in the 04:18 mark. The one you pointed out, it's a kindergarten one of the two they have just in that complex. I'm feeling jealous.

[@northeastoutrider2124]

If you think that’s a long walk, try getting to my gate at the airport. It’s always at the far end...

[@alwinpriven2400]

flights to Israel from Frankfurt are always at gate C13 for "security reasons", so it's close to 800m (probably more) from the entrance. So fun

[@jo-vf8jx]

North East Outrider It could always be worse. Imagine if you had to actually walk to your destination instead of fly. Even though it’s been a while since I’ve done any flying, I have felt your pain before. When you have to get on a tram/trolly/people mover of any type to get from gate “X” to gate “Y” , that’s a long way to be walking if a person had too!

[@hxyzazolchak]

Brussels and Charles de Gaulle should be in the records

[@jeremylinah8078]

On my bucket list welove walki g us africans

[@tsmall07]

Unless you've tried to get to terminal A from the metro stop with 2 small children and luggage at DCA, you don't know what a long airport walk is

[@Ganiscol]

I think a worthy mention in this category is the old airport Berlin-Tempelhof with its length of 1200m. Its worthy because you can actually see one end from the other because its an arc. I think that is pretty darn impressive 😄

[@RWBHere]

CERN is an even more impressive arc. Or rather, circle. 😉

[@pmfx65]

@@RWBHere But you cant see the whole arc. It's under the erarth, only the support buildings can be seen ... I have been there.

[@venka_ayacon]

It absolutely is! - Prora should also be mentioned. 2500 meters of that once 4500 meters collossus are still intact.

[@margin606]

The length of the structure is by no means the main thing to admire here. The 'mildly interesting architectural features' that you refer to are no such thing; they are a deeply interesting testimony to a time when socialism was held in high-regard; as such they are very important historically. This building is an absolute gem. I can only hope that the Vienna authorities take whatever steps are necessary to preserve it.

[@ritajaklitsch7559]

They actially do! It's a very famous building, people from all over the world visit and get tours there.

[@ComradeCatinsink]

The best thing about it is, that it's still social housing

[@lindonesc]

The City of Vienna is the largest property owner in Europe. 220,000 appartments (500,000 residents) 6,000 business premises 47,000 garages and parking spaces, a total area of ​​13,444,841 square meters. Update Oct 2023 In addition to the properties listed above, the city of Vienna owns undeveloped land worth 5.7 billion euros. In the last year and a half alone, the city bought an additional 62,000 square meters, but only 3,400 square meters were sold. This makes the city of Vienna the third largest land owner in Austria.

[@googlekonto2851]

This is also the reason why rent in Vienna is at a reasonable price.

[@Henrik46]

No public entity should own this much property.

[@googlekonto2851]

@@Henrik46 Iam on your side and would argue that they should own even more. A public housing market is a market which is democraticly controlled. Housing is a fundamental right as stated for example in the german constitution.

[@kazaddum2448]

@@Henrik46 Vienna is the perfect example why you are wrong. If anything all public entities should at least own as much.

[@diogofarias1822]

@@Henrik46 at least it works in Austria. And the appartments are affordable.

[@fmitterb]

Just my 2 Cents and a little context: All in all, there are about 220,000 city-owned flats and 200,000 co-operative flats in Vienna, which make the City of Vienna the biggest public owner of social housing estates in Europe.

[@davidfernandez9791]

Great! And then you have the austrian economic school which is the most fierce capitalism school of economics. World is weird.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@@davidfernandez9791 "austrian"

[@philipphoch2299]

@@davidfernandez9791 that school is often considered the second worst Austrian export, right after a certain mustached dude

[@ontledingen3348]

I like how he said residential in "If you want to see the longest - *residential* - building..."

[@fadinglightsarefading]

yes because the actual longest building is the great wall in china

[@xkinsey3831]

well done that was the joke

[@fadinglightsarefading]

@@xkinsey3831 well done, you've successfully found a joke where one does not lie

[@makaan1932]

Our housing program is still well and active and one of the biggest achivements of socialist Vienna

[@DavidNightjet]

Fun fact: Bell Labs in the US (actually within walking distance of my house) actually used to have the longest single straight hallway in the world, at 1/4 mile (402.336 meters) in length. Sadly, around half of it was demolished when the facility was renovated a while back. But it’s a nice piece of history.

[@KentBunn]

I would think the hall/corridor running along SLAC in Palo Alto would have been far, far longer.

[@JYYP-jz7qq]

Holmdel? I used to live there as well!

[@ZeroRiskAppetite]

"I've done extensive research.... " This is the Wikipedia page

[@copperbadge1]

Whooosh.

[@anarchocommunist3888]

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[@dad641]

@@anarchocommunist3888 ayy ancom gang based

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@@dad641 how exactly do you plan for anarcho... communism to work?

[@dad641]

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 what do you mean, like how to get it implemented or how it would run?

[@Mladjasmilic]

In Belgrade, Blok 21 has one of the longest residential buildings. It is about 1km long, but it is like if communist played the Snake before Nokia 3310 was invented. By far, the biggest by volume is Romaniam parlament.

[@BMH1965]

Pentagon.

[@fabiolperezjr]

The biggest by volume is actually Boeing's Everett Factory

[@veggiedisease123]

The Romanian Parliament building is the heaviest building in the world. The largest building by volume is Boeing Everett Factory in Washington state.

[@fizyk1101]

In Warsaw there is a similar building called "Pekin", which is roughly about 1150 m long and also looks like a terrible snake strategy

[@fizyk1101]

52.232372,21.080022 coordinates of Pekin for anyone interested

[@HD-ty8ng]

I've been to Karl Marx Hof and it was pretty impressive, but since it's stretching across several streets it didn't leave the same impact as "Falowiec" in Gdansk, Poland. Falowiec is shorter (about 800m) but feels more like one coherently building. And yes, the already often mentioned Prora-district, is very impressive indeed. I visited that site a couple of times and it's still jawdropping.

[@dabdab10]

This building is owned by the city. The city(Wiener Wohnen) has around 220000 properties. Approx. 500000 people live in them. Wiener Wohnen is the largest real estate owner of Europe.

[@ppsarrakis]

im so jealous of this... our rents are getting higher and higher what with people discovering Air-bnb...

[@mrubuntuking5257]

@@ppsarrakis A few cities are banning it now, the trick is getting it banned before the locals are already pushed out. If there's nobody left in the city but investors and Chinese, they control the city council and you can't stop them. There may still be hope even then, though. Vancouver, Canada waited too long to keep its lifelong locals, but then the investors who kicked out the locals ended up voting in a city council that wanted empty house taxes anyway, because even the richest Canadians couldn't compete with China anymore.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Calling the wall in China the longest "building" is like calling certain radio towers the highest "building". Sure, they are one-piece constructions, but not really buildings in the common sense. And that building in Ukraine not only goes around a corner, it also does a zig-zag line, thats cheating ;)

[@ABaumstumpf]

Why? It does not say the building with the longest one dimension - but the longest building. It wouldn't change a thing if you coiled it up into a spiral either.

[@danyalovenko]

@@ABaumstumpf I agree, because I live in Lutsk, Ukraine=) And can you have a tour along the rooftop of Viena building? In Lutsk you can!

[@niter43]

@@ABaumstumpf that's one of the reasons: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox If we include zig-zags, then we could make relatively small building count as extra-long by doing stupid sharp cuts into it.

[@2adamast]

niter43 Coastlines are hard with tides and so, but yes a virtual 1m wide walkway along the coast you walk, that’s the coastline and not the little drawings on a map or an ants view of the coastline. The cern tunnel for example is a long circular building and its longer than its diameter.

[@KingdaToro]

@@ABaumstumpf A building is, by definition, continuously habitable. The Burj Khalifa is a building, the CN Tower is not.

[@gui18bif]

Visiting the neighbours... leaving early to catch the bus

[@gradyzyner7423]

Love your snarky attitude and narration,. It's a refreshing change from the usual stuff on KZbin. Cheers.

[@clementcharlebois]

Similarly, the "mur-écran" in Fermont, Québec is a very long housing complex in this Boreal city. It helps to travel inside when the temperature drop at -50 degrees celcius during winter. It also serves as a wall to block the strong northern winds, hence make the city of Fermont a more liveable place.

[@91gagnier]

I think that the "mur-écran" is actually longer than the one in the video by about 200 meters

[@TheBeeseven]

Interesting fact : Theres building in Lincoln, England called the Titanic Building. This is because they built it to be the exact height and lenghth as the ship.

[@manuel7700]

Let's hope the ice fosen't want revange again

[@SirNarax]

@@manuel7700 Climate change is keeping the ice at bay. All goes according to plan for Lincoln, England.

[@questioner1596]

I'm jealous of all the fuel efficient wagons I see parked on that street. North Americans decided against them decades ago, so now everything with cargo space is on stilts here. I also saw a 2 door Fiesta van - we had the Fiesta here but never a cargo version!

[@peter_smyth]

If only I'D known about that when I visited Vienna.

[@lenny108]

they even have a museum in that building. Formerly this was the washhouse of the Karl-Marx Hof. But since people are having now their own washing machine in every apartment they turned this washhouse into a museum about the history of the Social Democratic municipal administration of the city of Vienna

[@_Gilles_]

You haven't missed anything really

[@NardoVogt]

To be honest: It is impressive, but the surroundings aren't. You can get to the Kalenberg and its Heurigen --- and that's nice. But the area is pretty boring compared to the rest of vienna. And there are some more spectacular public housing projects in the city - although smaller.

[@hughmcaloon6506]

I love how the narration slowed as the tempo increased to strrrreeeeettttch it out to the end!

[@roseharvey2664]

Interesting. Looks like a good place to live. Not sure it would work in a lot of countries, but Viennese seem to have a good attitude and appreciation of council housing, maybe they do it better and cater to the needs of the population. Would be interesting to see in the apartments and how the residents find living in it. Perhaps lessons could be learnt.

[@walterpleyer261]

Actually Vienna was rated the city with highest quality of living by consulting agency Mercer for the 10th consecutive year in 2019.

[@babblbuh]

It's alright and affordable to live in them. They're not luxury buildings with spas in the basement or anything, they're just normal apartment buildings. Apartments look like they would in any other building too.

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

These apartments (and generally all of the 200.000 apartments owned by the city) rent out for 7,50€ per square meter (that makes about 0,7€ per square feet). Also we have regulations on many types of building regarding how much a landlord can charge for a flat

[@xXWorldgamefunXx]

This works in every country and has been tried in every country. There is just no strong left-wing left, if you exclude scandinavian countries, which is the reason that speculation, gentrification and increased rent is happening everywhere in cities.

[@irgendwieanders2121]

Vienna: Beautiful city with only one downside, the people living there...

[@bombersander]

imagine you get hired for a full renovation of the bulding, you'd be done when you are retired!

[@bombersander]

Ludvig Askander by the time you've finished a full circle renovation, your son can follow you up for round 2

[@Steroumel]

Great video once again! The work and preparation on these must be *much*. The little well hidden puns are very amusing! Keep them coming! :D

[@TheTimTraveller]

Cheers Steroumel! I was a bit worried that there might not be enough trains in this one, I'm glad you still liked it :)

[@TheEarworms]

Yes this is the content I want to see much much more of !!!! I love you Tim!

[@atlantic_31]

Let's us all show some props to Tim for walking more than a kilometre just to film this video, respect

[@juliandavidac]

The best architectural channel ever, even better than the actually architectural ones, i learn so much from you, amazing work

[@dotdankory]

if you stand it on its side, alot of residence will be annoyed and the tallest building

[@donkmeister]

Imperial College has (or at least, had) a network of underground tunnels that interconnected many of the buildings. We managed to get all the way from the now-demolished South Side building all the way to the Blackett Laboratory... Around 5-600m as the crow flies but more like 800-900m in length. Not strictly one building as they were separated at street level.

[@oxydoze8373]

In the mining village of Fermont in Canada, there is a Residential/commercial/multi-fonctionnal building of 5 stories high, in the shape of a really wide arrow. It is 1.3 km long. They call it "Le mur" which is french for "the wall"... but it is not a wall per say. It has been constructed decades ago on the North side of the village to protect the rest of the houses and buildings from the North wind. And it is still in fonction today. Also, unlike the Karl-Marx-Hof building, there is no gaps in it. It is a never ending building to walk around. Maybe you haven't find this building because every informations on the web about it is in french canadian and is victim of bad translation (like thinking that it's just a wall because its name is "the wall/le mur").

[@richarddaigle8777]

Heyy I was just about to comment this exact thing. Im working in Fermont right now.

[@mysteryhombre81]

@@richarddaigle8777 Is it true that stripping there is a big business?

[@johncrwarner]

My friends thought I was mad because when we went to Vienna - I wanted to go to the Karl-Marx-Hof and the Wittgenstein House (the one designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein for his sister).

[@TheTimTraveller]

Well if it's any consolation, either you're not mad, or we both are. I missed out on the Wittgenstein House, will have to go back to Vienna and check it out!

[@johncrwarner]

The Tim Traveller getting into the Wittgenstein House was hard as it is / was part of the Bulgarian embassy.

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

I live in vienna and I never heard about the Wittgenstein House. But the Karl Marx Hof is awesome. I have quite some friends living in it and I lived right inbetween the Karl-Marx-Hof and the Friedrich-Engels-Hof (which also is a fascinating piece of social housing)

[@jeremylinah8078]

Germa has blood o its habda wos i terested with it killibg 6i bocent pwople crazy hitler

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Jeremy Linah This is austria, not germany. What are you talking about?

[@PS-pp7kn]

It is nice that something of the left tradition of vienna shines up. When you are at the building it does not seem as one big building, because it has many courtyards, passages, portals, playing grounds, trams going around and so on. Some of the style seems to be adopted in the very beautifull Stalinstadt, which is part of Eisenhüttenstadt. Also big courtyards and round portals, but the buildings are less massive, much more light and floating in the style.

[@gordo3di]

I went to corviale in 2007. Yes it's shorter but it's impressive because it's long, straight and you call truly see it end to end. Great video!

[@flt528]

Very helpful thank you - I was thinking of moving to that apt bldg in Murmansk but I was disappointed at its length. "Don't you have anything longer?" I asked the agent. Who wants to walk out their door, turn left, and be past the end of their building before 6 minutes have even gone by?

[@vincentrossmanith7608]

I live near Heiligenstadt in Vienna and i see that building very often its funny and awsome to learn its the longest housing building in the world Thank you!!

[@Trevlead]

In Fermont, Quebec, Canada there is "The Wall' housing structure which is 1.3 km long.

[@Sedgewise47]

Trevor Bourgeois Link(s), please??

[@mgagnonlv]

It's hard to see on the map because Google street view doesn't go there. I have found a few links in French (sorry, none in English) : Tourism Côte-Nord: tourismecote-nord.com/membres/musees-et-centres-dinterpretation/le-mur-ecran/ Wikipedia (look for "Le « Mur »"): fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont Jobboom: structure of the wall: www.jobboom.com/carriere/anatomie-du-mur-de-fermont/ UPDATE: I found one link in English: www.houseporn.ca/landscape/article/the_wall_housing_structure_in_fermont_quebec

[@Trevlead]

www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=14&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiw9Kmz8a_lAhXuc98KHWjFAI8QFjANegQIABAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.houseporn.ca%2Flandscape%2Farticle%2Fthe_wall_housing_structure_in_fermont_quebec&usg=AOvVaw0hVHN8--D_tUct02ROw-gc

[@stoneji]

I've been to Fermont a couple times. The Wall is epic. In addition to hundreds of apartments it also contains several stores including a supermarket, schools, and recreational facilities. Apparently there's even a strip club in there but I didn't see it. The first time I visited in 1997 I thought it was pretty spectacular. When I saw it again in 2015 it looked a little tired but still very functional.

[@maha3431]

Besides that it's in the north of the city, I think you didnt make it clear enough that it was a major step forward in that time regarding living quality. Imagine, they used to live mostly in muddy worker barricades and then suddenly in a warm apartment only for you and your family. Even with a balcony for nearly every flat. Don't forget it was 1930! And it's more than a pitty that you didn't walked at the inside of it. There are, more or less, two giant parks only separated by a placa in the middle. This time was called the "red vienna", yes socialists, and was the first step to have cheap rents for all people. And this lasts until this day.

[@graalcloud]

I'm having a hard time understanding how "cheap rent" commie blocks are a good thing. In America wherever "social housing" developments pop up it ends up being a very bad thing.

[@maha3431]

@@graalcloud i can understand you but there are a couple of factors which are not really comparable to social housing projects... and Socialists are not communists. They dont want to have a revolution of the working class (as they supposed to want). They want to have social benefits via a political system. In this case from the democratic Republic. The idea of those house projects in Vienna where that the city (which is and was rules by socialists) built flats financed by themselves and use the income only to finance more flats. Nothing is perfect for all but in this case its also located near a quite rich area and may benefit from the surrounding.

[@swagatochatterjee7104]

@@graalcloud In the US the social blocks are for getting rid of poor people. In Socialist countries, it was a means to give people affordable roof such that they don't go bankrupt. It isn't bad. There is no profit involved in Karl-Marx-Hoff, but in the US it's all about profit, segregation and propaganda. In Singapore, everyone gets social housing. You generally don't associate Singapore with misery right? This is all a product of Red Scare!

[@abandonedchannel281]

Apparently it’s the most effective social housing

[@sandeepgobind758]

Such an excellently edited video...well done

[@jo-vf8jx]

I’ve only found your channel this morning and you’re already made me chuckle! 😊

[@venka_ayacon]

Have you ever visited Prora? - Building there was originally 4.5 kilometers long and now still has 2.5 Kilometers length.

[@ziggy2shus624]

Notice there are no huge Adam Smith buildings.

[@wickedmonroe]

nice

[@xSpArTaNGoDzx]

ziggy 2shus hell yea man

[@test-qz4dq]

Well the Karl Marx building is the only thing what have been left from him ;)

[@MirzaAhmed89]

Not even a pin factory?

[@danatronics9039]

Or any Ayn Rand building at all lol

[@blackdog12873]

love your videos and mainly for your witty narration. Keep up your great work!

[@BrokenCurtain]

The only downside of visiting Vienna to see the longest building is that you might not leave the city again. Because why would you?

[@Maenfy]

@Ganga Din That would be new to me. Why isn't there freedom of speech?

[@Maenfy]

@Ganga Din It doesn't as far as I know, can you name something people aren't allowed to say in Austria?

[@-kon5ti-932]

As far as I know I am allowed to say anything I want. And I live in Vienna

[@Maenfy]

@Ganga Din You actually can, what law would forbid that?

[@BrokenCurtain]

@Ganga Din Austria is #16 on the 2019 Press Freedom Index, far above countries like the UK (#33) or the USA (#48). A lot of places still have old laws in their books that don't get enforced any longer, like sodomy laws. Can you actually cite a recent example of someone who got prosecuted for blasphemy in Austria and was found guilty? And civil rights can also be restricted by extralegal means. Maybe you don't end up in jail for being an atheist in America, but you and your family members might end up losing your jobs, homes and face other forms of harassment over views like that. If I had to choose between a country that still has blasphemy laws and a country where outright discrimination of religious minorities is still a thing, then I'd always pick the former.

[@DerEchteDaniel]

I was today in Heiligenstadt and remebered your video as I was leaving the trainstation. Without your video, I would just have passed by without noticing

[@jarovanduren5641]

Why have regular building when you can have E L O N G A T E D building

[@ManexFX]

I visited Vienna a month ago and passed this building twice, it stood out to me because of the funny arches. Had no idea it was the longest building on earth!

[@johnsamu]

"Can you pick something up for me?" "It's just around the corner of that building" 😉😃

[@k.jamescarters9557]

I’m a new subscriber and binge watching. I enjoy the randomness of your channel and can’t wait to catch up

[@languagedataaccessibilitys7441]

I’m tempted to build a building in a straight line somewhere that gets #1 in all the categories.

[@subiesubie]

The upkeeping and maintenance of this building muat be insane!

[@hiestealer]

imagine having a corner apartment

[@Yashodhan1917]

What's the issue?

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

It's a very successful example of high-density social housing, too.

[@Phineas_Freak]

This project is almost 100 years old and still does a lot of things way better than any social housing project in the US. It would be nice to bring this concept back.

[@tokarukoro8196]

@Sune Wallentin Goettler But why should anybody want that?

[@glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917]

Vienna in general is pretty good at that

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Sune Wallentin Goettler Social housing isnt about making it as cheap as possible, its about providing quality living to people at affordable prices

[@DrZaius3141]

@illegal_opinions With 7.5 billion people, not everyone can own land. Those who can't at least deserve to have shelter for an appropiate rent.

[@Quert_Zuiopue]

The KDF Holiday complex Prora is also 4,5 kilometers long. (Ruegen/ german baltic coast)

[@Noah-hb2mu]

Teacher: were would you most want to go My friends: “LA” Me:I wanna go to Karl marx hof

[@emporioalnino4670]

Who would want to visit the shitheap that is LA

[@jona_archi]

actually the colossus of prora (2,5 of 4,5 km left) is way more impressive. I've been there

[@Noah-hb2mu]

@@emporioalnino4670 I used to live there, I thought it was nice. Then again I lived in Santa Monica which is a lot nicer than most of la

[@viscountav]

Your sense of humor is amazing. Im loving it like a bucket of nacho cheese fries.

[@uzaiyaro]

"If you could stand this building on its end, you would annoy a lot of residents." Hah, I can honestly say I wasn't expecting that.

[@nomenestomen8952]

I love the building, its name and the idea behind it!

[@jorasaveminiaturas]

imaging living in one end and having a friend living in the other , you could say that's a health relationship

[@colasalz2]

well, he is living in the same house.... :)

[@fraenzchen85]

there are tramways and busses7. Also it is probably just a 15 minute walk if you walk slowly.

[@jorasaveminiaturas]

@@fraenzchen85 is it possible to ride by bike? looks like a mini city in a building =)

[@VictorGuimaraesHeine]

I lived for 3 months in the building across the street at the 5:36 minutes mark and walked to and from the station every single day. I had never realized how big that thing is.

[@VictorGuimaraesHeine]

Actually I never realized it was one single thing.

[@DarknessLaw]

the moment when you realize that you live in that building

[@YeeSoest]

This was so much fun and so informative, I am subscribing right now. Such a likeable voice ^^

[@demanofall]

"annexation" anschluss you mean

[@Phineas_Freak]

Basicaly the same

[@PGraveDigger1]

@@Phineas_Freak Not really. Annexation is by force, the Anschluss was voluntary.

[@Phineas_Freak]

@@PGraveDigger1 I know thats what they said back then but it was basicaly forced. When you are a small and economical weak country you better do what the Nazis say when they have a huge army on your border. The Austrian public and army where not treated as equals, not to speak of jews and socialists who came from or flet to Austria. Although tbh a lot of Austrians where in favour of the Anschluss.

[@PGraveDigger1]

@@Phineas_Freak I was taught that the anschluss was the result of a referendum, where proponents got the majority. As far as I know the majority of the country did want to voluntarily join Germany, so the force that was exerted was atleast in some sense the same as the force exerted by democratic governments. If you, like I, view the force exerted by an army as basically the same as the force exerted by the monopoly on violence that democratic states have, then I agree with your point that annexation and anschluss were basically the same.

[@PMakerYT]

Here in Austria, saying we were forced to join Germany ("erstes Opfer"/"first Victim") will make you seem like a Nazi. Sure, there might have been some Economics at play, but more importantly, Vienna cheered when Hitler drove his car through the streets on the first day after declaring Austria part of Germany...

[@real-estatelanddevelopment5672]

sounds like a Long Story to me. Boom Boom. Great video loved it.

[@pj5056]

I thought it was Prora on the german island Rügen

[@northof-62]

Me too

[@northof-62]

Apparently it's split up in three parts along the 4500m of total length (Kdf Koloss)

[@batonnetdecannelle]

Mind the gaps!

[@chrismaczynsky6283]

In Gdańsk (Poland) you can find the “Wave” the block of flats. 11 floors high, 850 m long.

[@dmreid9620]

I used the more accurate “measure distance” tool on google maps for the Karl Marx Hof and the one in Ukraine and found it to be longer. It was 1.35km and Vienna was 1.07km. I measured from point to point on the buildings instead of just the longest side. So basically what I’m saying is if you stretched out the Ukraine one from end to end as if it were a piece of string and did the same for Vienna, Ukraine would be longer. This may have been how the Wikipedia person reached their conclusion. Not saying you’re wrong though, just a different definition of length I suppose.

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

Would you consider the building at Flughafen Tempelhof to be longer even though it's curved? It's 1.2 km on a continuous curve.

[@makaan1932]

always love to see my town, Wien, on youtube - best city in the world

[@BadWebDiver]

It's a cultural classic!

[@user-vu6xv4qf7c]

Omg I used to go through that U-Bahn every day and I would always see the building on my way :) this brings back memories!

[@moritzhaberland]

What about Prora on Rugen Island in Germany?

[@Skid235]

It was never finished and isn't fully connected. Its called KDF Bad, to be precise, the little town its standing in and the area soruonding it is called Prora.

[@Jakob_DK]

It is further not a residential building but built as a hotel

[@emjackson2289]

Before this I'd always thought it was the KdF buildings at Prora, but I have to say the KMH is absolutely brilliant. The UK could learn lessons from!

[@peerke59]

What about Prora on the German peninsula of Rügen. This building is 4,5 km long, but not in one piece.

[@julianreverse]

So it's not ONE Building!

[@netdigger2005]

I would have to agree that it is not one building. DTW in Detroit is 1.4km long

[@demonstructie]

The 'Peperklip' sprung to my mind as maybe the longest building in my city, Rotterdam. I've Google-maps-measured it and came to an estimated 850 meters if it were all stretched out straight. Which it isn't (it's vaguely paperclip shaped, surprisingly), so it wouldn't have counted anyway, but it's still _long,_ and puts the Vienna building into perspective.

[@geoffreylee5199]

The former Terminal Two in Toronto airport YYZ, was over a mile long. Built early 1970s, demolished 2000s.

[@andywakey]

No, It was 894 meters or 0.56 miles long

[@gabrielmassicotte-rochon6920]

If I am not mistaken we have a building here in Canada that is longer in Fermont Québec, it serves as a wall against the cold wind at the same time as a appartement and commerce building and is 1300 meters long in the shape of a crescent

[@MickBenjamins]

The (defunct) Tempelhof airport in Berlin is 1.2KM long, worth making a video about!

[@stekra3159]

Well, ther where Studies by the city government in collaboration with the Milliertys of Britten France and the USA. To demolish the Karl Marks Hofe and Bild a runway just in case the Soviets did not want to relinquish control over their Occupation Zone and closed the Borders. The Karl Marks hove was Chossen because it was the longest flat straight and publicly owned Pice of land within the Western Alights Occupation Zone of Vienna. Luckily the Soviets sight the State Treaty. And Austria was as Pormist voluntarily neutral the day after Soviet forces withdrew from Austria.

[@integre23]

The wholesale market in Yiwu has everything you can imagine and it is 7 kilometers long.

[@themetalkiddo6753]

There is a building on Rugia (Germany) which is 4 and a half kilometers long. It's called Koloss and can be found in Prora, next to the city Binz.

[@matthiasrohrs7127]

Prora was never a residential building and never 4.5km long. It was only 2.1 km long and was a holiday residential and later a military building. Since the remodeling it was split in 3 blocks

[@paxundpeace9970]

@@matthiasrohrs7127 It was even not connected before

[@akiraakiraakiraakira]

huh i really expected the "shorter buildings you measured" to be actually longer. what a twist. nice video!

[@MsTatli]

The amount of time spent on discussing expansion joints must be enormous.

[@koningbolo4700]

Have you seen the Worlds cleanest sewer tunnel? It is located in Vienna and was used as one of the filming locations in the Orson Wells 1949 movie The Third Man. It is the worlds cleanest sewer tunnel because it is not a sewer tunnel but a culverted canal...but in the movie it was meant to be a sewer...

[@latviaball5129]

Imagine living there and then going for halloween

[@Oberkommando]

You'd have diabetes by the time you got to the middle

[@chocomanger6873]

They're Europeans though. They probably don't even give out candy, or if they do it's marzipan or something gross like that.

[@accutus]

@@chocomanger6873 vienna here: we dont give out candys, if someone, if really anyone, comes to the door uninvited, the correct answer is and always will be: "schleichts es es gschissanen gfrasta!"

[@chocomanger6873]

@@accutus Verdammte Scheiße

[@chocomanger6873]

@Bernd DasBrot Oh yeah... Just gotta love that British chocolate, those gooey Haribo shapes, the dry cakes, ... Actually, one thing Europe does do right is that salty northern European liquorice.

[@CaptnGino]

In Fermont, Canada, There is a residential building that is 4 storeys high and 1.3 kilometers long. It serves as a wind shield for the rest of the town. There's also a mall and a hotel inside it. It is made in two stretches but fully attached and no place for cars to go through!

[@eland65]

"Going out for cigarettes..."

[@visakhans]

Well reviewed. Saves so much time. Wish you well

[@cxgrosskreutz7213]

I walk past the Karl-Marx-Hof at least once a week, but i hab absolutly no idea.

[@JovanNoviSad]

Same

[@aclock2]

To be fair, I thought it was multiple buildings connected together, not a single building.

[@ultraali453]

Thank you for the interesting video and commentary.

[@ambergris5705]

There's also an interesting fact about the origin of the Karl-Marx-Hof. In 1914, Vienna was one of the 10 most populated cities on the planet, with something like 2 million habitants. The city was then under tremendous pressure to get more efficient housing, because at the time, a lot of people were living in unacceptable conditions. This was one of the drives also to the accession of socialists to power, and this building is maybe the best example of the answer they gave at the time. However, very interestingly, Vienna has not grown, but decreased in population since then, making it a small capital when compared to the rest of the world. But this also means that the city hasn't grown much since that time, and therefore presents quite a unique situation when it comes to city evolution.

[@moritzbela2333]

Ambergris I’m afraid to tell you, but your numbers are wrong. In the early 20th century Vienna had way over 2 million habitants. After WWII the population decreased, until it’s lowest point in 1987 to 1,484,885. Since then the city of Vienna increases in size again and also experiences being a Cultural Hotspot once again - like it always used to be. In early 2019 the population of Vienna was 1,897,491 and will hit the 2 million mark soon again.

[@ambergris5705]

@@moritzbela2333 Thank you for being more precise than me. I was oversimplifiying, which then begs the question of why I thought it would be a good idea to give an oversimplified number. However, I'm curious, when you speak about an increase in size, do you mean population wise, or area wise? I knew about the population, but I have no information about the size of the area.

[@ambergris5705]

@@moritzbela2333 oh, and BTW, I modified the number I gave, however, although I admit it might be confusing, I kept the sentences saying that the city has decreased in population, as the city hasn't yet seen its population come back to its highest level, despite the recent increase. And I believe that those really interested in the question will also read your comment ;)

[@irgendwieanders2121]

Vienna: Beautiful city with only one downside, the people living there... Case in Point: (0:32) The Karl Marx-Hof is in the north of Vienna, not in the west (that is e.g. Hietzing, where they also have Gemeindebauten...)