Baroque palace (Timișoara)

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The baroque palace on Piața Unirii

The Baroque Palace ( Romanian Palatul Baroc ) is a listed palace on Piața Unirii in the historic center of the Romanian city ​​of Timișoara . Other names of the building are Presidential Palace , Prefectura Veche ( Old Prefecture ) or House of the County . The richly decorated palace consists of two floors and an attic , as well as two entrance gates designed in the Viennese baroque style. The building was recently completely refurbished and has housed the art department of the city's art museum ( Muzeul de Arta ) since 1984 .

history

The palace contains two earlier buildings, the Mining Office (built 1733) and the Heereskasse (built 1735), and was built between 1752 and 1754 as a county house (government building) based on the model of the Palais Kinsky in Vienna and based on plans by the Austrian architect Franz Anton Hillebrandt im Erected in baroque style. In 1885 and 1886, changes were made to the mansard roof during the renovation of the facade by the architect Jacques Klein .

The building fulfilled various purposes over the years, as the house of the Crown Land (County Hall) as the seat of Kuk -Gouverneurs 1779-1848, and residence of the Governor of Vojvodina between 1849 and 1960. From 1861 to 1918 it was the seat of the county Temes . After that, in 1944 it functioned as the seat of the TimiKomitat Temes-Torontal district government ( Prefectura județului TimiKomitat Temes-Torontal ) and as the seat of the commander of the Soviet troops stationed in the city . For a short time it was also the seat of the Agricultural Institute ( Institutul Agronomic ).

The guests of the building who moved into quarters here included Emperor Josef II in 1767, Emperor Franz Josef I on May 7 and 8, 1872, and King Ferdinand I with Queen Maria of Romania from May 9 to 12 , 1872 November 1923.

Art department

The art department of the Banat Museum has been located in the building since 2005 . The director of the art department, Marcel Tolcea , has a staff of three custodians for contemporary, classical and religious paintings. In the basement there are rooms for cultural events such as book presentations, film screenings, lectures, etc.

The history of the art department of the Timişoara Museum began with donations from the art lover Ormos Zsigmond . His donations were made mainly by Italian, Dutch, German, Austrian and Hungarian painters. Then there are the paintings by Romanian artists, above all the collection of the painter Corneliu Baba consisting of 90 paintings.

The painting collection was not only enlarged through donations, but also through acquisitions. In addition to paintings by the Timisoara painters Anselm Wagner or Anton Fialla , a painting by the drawing teacher Desidor Sinkovich was also acquired, which depicts the handover of the fortress key by the defeated Turkish defenders to Prince Eugene . The monk paintings by Adolf Humborg are also worth mentioning .

literature

  • N. Ilieșiu: Timișoara, monograph Istorică , Timișoara, 1943, page 336.
  • Wilhelm Weber: The newly established art museum in Timisoara , 2008

Web links

Commons : Baroque Palace (Timișoara)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 240 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 of the Timiș District , entry 149 - TM-II-mA-06174 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gtztm.ro
  2. ↑ de.structurae.de , Barockpalast (art museum)
  3. ↑ Tourist-Informator.info , Palace and Historical Relics - The Baroque Palace

Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 26.5 ″  N , 21 ° 13 ′ 45.9 ″  E