The Ernst Kirchweger House in September 2005. The large banner on the first floor reads, "kein tag ohne autonomes zentrum" ("Not a single day without autonomous centre").

The Ernst Kirchweger Haus (EKH) is a building in Vienna's 10th district, Favoriten. Ongoing events • 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Election of OAS Secretary General • Stanislav Gross scandal in Czech republic Upcoming events Deaths in May May 3: Jagjit Singh Aurora May 3: Don Canham May... For other meanings of the term banner, see banner (disambiguation). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Favoriten is the 10th district of Vienna. ...

Since June 23, 1990, it has been a squatted social centre, which hosts migrants and refugees, community activities, and political groups. June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about occupying land without permission. ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ...

The squatters, who describe the EKH as an "international, multicultural, antifascist centre", named the building after Ernst Kirchweger, a former concentration camp inmate and member of the antifascist resistance, who was killed in 1965 by a right-wing protester during a demonstration against Taras Borodajkewycz, a former member of the NSDAP. A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... A resistance movement is a group dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Taras (von) Borodajkewycz (born October 1, 1902 in what is today Ukraine, died January 3, 1984 in Vienna), was a former member of the NSDAP and after World War II professor of economic history at the College of World Trade in Vienna (today: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration). ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...

In 2003 the owner of the house, the Communist Party of Austria, sold the EKH to a real estate company, and the residents were threatened with eviction (see the summary of protests and actions at Indymedia). After a long struggle, a company with close contacts to the municipality of Vienna bought the building in July 2005, and the threat of eviction seems to have passed. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Communist Party of Austria (German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs) is a communist party from Austria. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... Eviction is a legal process by which a landlord forces a tenant to move out of the landlords property involuntarily and usually permanently. ... The Independent Media Center (aka Indymedia or the IMC) started as a vision for a global, open network of DIY journalists and alternative media activists. ... Ongoing events • 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes • 2005 Maharashtra floods • 2005 Gujarat Flood • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ...

External links

• Ernst Kirchweger Haus
• English-language EKH homepage