Exactly 40 years to the day after the start, 7 successors of those employees who have made the B7 into what it is today met on Wednesday in Bischofstrasse. “It all started here on May 15, 1984,” said managing director Ulrike Würzburger.
What was launched with two employees of the Diocese of Linz as an initiative to offer young people looking for work a space for orientation and work has grown as an association over 40 years into an independent, non-profit institution. “With modest means, the little plant has grown into a stately tree,” said Episcopal Vicar Wilhelm Viehböck.
Connected by bike
Today, 65 employees look after people, advise, help and listen when it comes to special challenges in work and life issues.
The fact that for many people the B7 is still inseparably linked to the bicycle center is part of the history of this initiative, which came to an end several times because the financiers were no longer able or willing to raise the necessary money.
Yesterday, during the almost two-hour slow train tour, there was a lot of talk about the people who made sure that things kept going. Bischofstrasse 7 (hence the short name B7), Oberfeldstrasse, Landstrasse, Rainerstrasse, Steingasse, Waldeggstrasse, Kapuzinerstrasse and finally the Tabakfabrik, where the B7 is based in 2016, were the stops that were visited on the founding day.
Not much trace of the past was visible, but some memories of long-serving employees and companions illustrated an eventful history.
“Ahead of time”
The bicycle project was way ahead of its time. “40 years ago there wasn’t much talk about sustainability, but in the B7 it was put into practice when job seekers made old bicycles that were sold roadworthy again,” said Linz’s deputy mayor Karin Hörzing. Traffic officer Martin Hajart is still happy about the collaboration with the B7 to banish “cycle corpses” from the cityscape and “make it fit” again.
It was a good sign for B7 managing director Würzburger that the ARGE junk shop and thus continues to operate as a socially active institution on Bischofstrasse, where State Councilor for Social Affairs Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer also thanked the B7 team for four decades of good and important work. This leaves a connection to history.
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