Unterhalden residence
The Unterhalden residence is in the municipality of Bludesch im Walgau in Vorarlberg . The building is a listed building .
history
The residence was built around 1640. In 1709 the residence was sold to the Reichsstift Weingarten . In 1802 the residence went to Friedrich Wilhelm von Oranien-Nassau . In 1804 the residence went to Austria . The building was converted into an inn before 1872. In 1983 the building was unused.
architecture
The simple two-story rectangular building has regular axes and a gable roof. The sandstone-framed windows are from the mid-19th century. The two-armed outside staircase to the high rectangular entrance portal of the southern gable front is from the middle of the 19th century. In the north is a commercial cultivation.
The inside of the building has barrel vaults in the basement. In the storeys, the central corridors have pressed barrel vaults with simple stucco work.
The corner room in the southwest of the upper floor was originally a representative ballroom and has a flat stucco ceiling from the second quarter of the 17th century with wide-framed fields developed from a cross with a central rosette and winged angel heads. In the north wall of the hall there is a raised semicircular niche with a coarse Renaissance frame from the second quarter of the 17th century, the base zone is structured with diamond and rectangular fields, the side pilasters have cranked entablature. Above the entablature, between scrollwork and a seated spherical motif, there is an empty square inscription in a profiled frame.
A renaissance coffered ceiling from the first floor was transferred to the Vorarlberg State Museum at the beginning of the 20th century .
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Bludesch, Unterhalden Residence (Neidberg), Hauptstrasse 21, p. 52.
Coordinates: 47 ° 11 ′ 50 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 27.5" E