Arvfursten's palats
The Erbfürstenpalais (Swedish Arvfurstens palats ) is a magnificent building in Stockholm 's Norrmalm district and the seat of the Swedish Foreign Ministry .
The current building was built between 1783 and 1794 for Princess Sofia Albertina , sister of King Gustav III. , the youngest daughter of King Adolf Friedrich and Luise Ulrike von Prussia as an extension of the previous building: a palace in the Dutch Renaissance style , which was built under Field Marshal Lennart Torstensson . Erik Palmstedt was commissioned to design a new main facade to the adjacent square. The original palace became the side wing, and another wing was built facing the water. The building should be an exact copy of Gustav III's old opera . be on the opposite side of the square. The opera had to make way for a successor building in 1891. The interior was designed by Louis Masreliez .
The building is designed as a coherent plastic unit according to the principles of late baroque design. The facade is influenced by neoclassicism , with large, simple motifs, smooth surfaces and restrained color details. The division with Corinthian pilasters was reinforced in the middle part of the main facade by the suggestion of a colonnade . Above it rises an attic with a balustrade on the roof edge, which is crowned by a lion statue with a coat of arms . The festoons over the window frames on the upper floor are typical of the Gustavian style .
Sofia Albertina decreed in her will that the palace should be available to the respective Hereditary Prince, i.e. number two in the line of succession . First came Hereditary Prince Gustav (1827-1852) to benefit from this scheme, even the later Oskar II. Lived for a time in Erbfürstenpalais. At times, employees of the court were housed in the building.
In 1902 the state bought the palace for 2.25 million crowns. The representative frame has now been used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1906 the Foreign Minister moved in with the First Secretary and about twenty officials. Since 1935, the building has been under state protection as a Byggnadsminne ( architectural monument ).
Web links
- Entry at the Riksantikvarieämbetet
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 45 ″ N , 18 ° 4 ′ 4 ″ E