Adolf Rhomberg House
The Adolf-Rhomberg-Haus is a listed town house in the Austrian city of Dornbirn . It is located in the district market in Market Street opposite the Capuchin monastery and is named after its most famous residents, the former Vorarlberg Governor Adolf Rhomberg named.
The building was erected in the years 1798–1799 under the contractor Marx Alois Luger. However, it did not get its current appearance until it was redesigned in 1900 by the well-known Art Nouveau architect Hanns Kornberger .
history
Building history
The original builder of the impressive town house on today's Marktstrasse was the Dornbirn textile entrepreneur Marx Alois Luger. At the end of the 18th century, Luger had made a considerable fortune when he took over business activities in his father's company. Accordingly, from 1798 onwards, he had master builder Sigmund Hilbe build a garden palace in the Vorderstadt for around 15,000 florins , which was ten times the value of an ordinary house. At that time there were hardly any larger buildings in the area of today's outer market street, so that the palace was effectively placed in the countryside, but at the same time on a main thoroughfare.
After its completion in 1799, the building comprised a basement with three floors above, with a corridor in the middle of each of these floors leading from one house front to the opposite. The building also contained a larger hall, which was intended for special invitations, as well as the attic in the four-sided mansard roof , in which the house staff was accommodated.
Grand Duke Constantine as a resident
The war years of the First Coalition War , in the midst of which the building was built, brought an unplanned resident to Marx Alois Luger's house. The Russian army under General Field Marshal Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow was on its way from the Po Valley to Germany when the presence of the French in northern Switzerland forced them to make a detour over the mountains to Graubünden and, subsequently, Vorarlberg . The Russians found quarters in Dornbirn and settled in all the houses of the small community. While the commando was quartered on the market square, Grand Duke Konstantin Pawlowitsch Romanow , son of Tsar Paul I and brother of the later Tsar Alexander I , came to the newly built house of Marx Alois Luger. It was only after a 14-day stay that the Russian troops traveled on to Lindau , whereby Luger regained possession of his factory owner's palace.
Bankruptcy Lugers and new owners
In September 1803, Marx Alois Luger had to file for bankruptcy over his company. At this point in time, gross assets of 100,000 florins were offset by debts of around 250,000 florins. The newly built Lugers house, valued at 15,000 florins, was raised from the bankruptcy estate by his father-in-law Johann Huber with 10,999 florins. Luger himself and his young wife Katharina moved back to the old coach house from which Luger had only moved a few years earlier.
The new owner and resident of the building was Luger's father-in-law, the textile entrepreneur Johann Huber. After his death in 1818, Marx Alois Luger and his wife moved back to their mother-in-law in the palace, where they lived until Maria Anna Huber's death in 1833. When this death finally occurred and the palace finally had to be sold, Luger moved to Vienna with his wife and children .
The Rhomberg family in the house
With the sale of the garden palace in 1833, a member of the Rhomberg family came into possession of it for the first time. Since the building was still very expensive and only a few people from Dornbirn could afford such a property, it is hardly surprising that a member of the then largest Dornbirn textile company Herrburger & Rhomberg finally acquired the house. Eduard Rhomberg was a great-nephew of the builder Marx Alois Luger and son of the textile entrepreneur Josef Anton Rhomberg. The Rhomberg's coat of arms and the intertwined letters ER above the front door still testify to the occupation by Eduard Rhomberg. Rhomberg was a partner in the Herrburger & Rhomberg company in the 1840s and was considered a disinterested benefactor.
The next and most famous resident of the house was born on March 23, 1851 as the son and family owner of Eduard Rhomberg in this very house. Adolf Rhomberg , who later made a steep political career and rose to become governor, was still a law student when his father died on December 21, 1873. With the death of his father, Adolf not only took over his leading position in the company, but also the garden palace. Even before he had his own house rebuilt, Adolf Rhomberg, meanwhile Governor of Vorarlberg, donated the building of a Capuchin monastery directly opposite his home in 1893.
Finally, in 1900 , Rhomberg commissioned the well-known Art Nouveau architect Hanns Kornberger to renovate and convert the palace. Kornberger dedicated himself in particular to the street-side facade and the park-like redesign of the garden, which, following the fashion of the time, was also equipped with a large fountain . After Adolf Rhomberg's death, his niece Marie Scheller and her husband Franz Wolf, a lawyer from Bregenz, lived in the garden palace in addition to his widow. Marie Wolf lived in the Adolf-Rhomberg-Haus until her death in 1986, although during the time of the National Socialist dictatorship, district leader Klaus Mahnert was forcibly quartered. After her death, the building was finally sold to the Vorarlberg construction guild, which fundamentally renovated the Adolf-Rhomberg-Haus in 1987.
literature
- Franz Kalb: The Adolf Rhomberg House and its residents . In: Vorarlberger Guild of the Building Industry (Ed.): The Landeshauptmann-Adolf-Rhomberg-Haus . Feldkirch , 1990.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kalb, p. 29 and 30: The solidly built status symbol
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 38.4 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 31 ″ E