page_title: Hilda Crozzoli
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Hilda Crozzoli / Career
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hofstall Kaserne in Salzburg
context_page_description: Hilda Crozzoli was one of the first female architects and civil engineers in Austria.
context_section_description: On 1 August 1917, she joined her father's architecture and building company as an apprentice. Between 1 March 1921 and 11 August 1925, she worked as a construction technician and construction foreman in her father's company. In addition to working in her father's company, she also worked for the city architect Josef Cwertschek in Schneegattern and in Vienna. 
  As a construction technician in her father's company, P & A Crozzoli, Hilda Crozzoli was the site manager for the conversion of the grand cavalry barracks and stables of the Hofstallkasern into a natural history museum, today the Haus der Natur Salzburg. It sits at the center of the festival quarter of the city.
  From 1 July 1926 she worked with the Universale Baugesellschaft m. b. H. (the Universal Construction Company) in Salzburg.
  Between 12 and 14 May 1927 she sat and passed the exams to become a Baumeister (architect and civil engineer, traditionally called a master builder) in Klagenfurt. This was widely covered, not just in the Salzburg media, and the Verein Deutsch Österreichischer Ingenieure (Association of German Austrian Engineers) sent their congratulations.
  In 1928, Hilda Crozzoli struck out on her own and became a freelance architect and civil engineer. Josef Sindinger was her partner until 1929, then she worked with the architect Richard Bandian, who she later married on 1 February 1934. In 1934 Hilda Crozzoli and her construction company moved to 19 Reichenhallerstraße 19 (today Reichenhaller Straße 27).
  65 buildings are known to have been built under her direction by the Crozzoli-Bandian company between 1928 and 1966. Of particular note in 1927/28 is the establishment of the Fürsorge-Siedlung, the so-called "welfare settlement" in Schallmoos, an area of Salzburgh.
  During the Second World War, 15 air raids destroy 46 percent of the city's buildings, and the Crozzoli-Bandian company were involved in the post war reconstruction effort.   
  Crozzoli repaired the building damage at Schloss Leopoldskron in 1945, which had been seized and occupied by the Nazis during the war. Her company rebuilt and restored the Hotel zum Goldenen Hirschen (1945/46)   
  and the Bankhaus Daghofer (1968);   
  She also carried out the renovation of the Wallistraktes der Residenz for the Universität Salzburg in 1965.
  Hilda Crozzoli-Bandian died on 10 August 1972 in Salzburg after a long illness. She was buried in the Maxglan cemetery.
caption: Salzburg Hofstall-Kaserne
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