Collalto Palace

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The Palais Collalto

The Palais Collalto is a palace in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City , at Am Hof 13.

history

The Collaltopalais was built around 1671 in the Baroque style, although the original property already existed in the 16th century. The main facade was renewed between 1715 and 1725. Until then, the facade had been crowned by a triangular gable, which has now been removed. The palace emerged from several small houses and was connected to the arbor of the adjacent church at the courtyard “To the Nine Choirs of Angels”, creating a passage from the Am Hof ​​square to the schoolyard.

Before the construction of small houses to the here were very close to Judenplatz the Jewish Garden and later the home of Dr. Schrans, which Ferdinand I bought for 26,000 guilders to accommodate the aristocratic landscape school. In 1560 the management of this school was transferred to the Jesuit order , which transferred its Konvictists here. In this context, the house was raised, rebuilt and expanded.

In 1611 the estates bought the house and gave it to the then Palatine of Hungary, Count Imre Thurzo. In 1671 the Venetian patrician family Collalto finally acquired the property, which Count Franz Anton Collalto (1630–1696) began to carry out extensive renovations. In the long single-nave passage, the entrance to the stairs opens on the left. This is led over three floors and has steps made of Kaiserstein .

In the years 1715 to 1725 the facade of the palace was finally renewed in the baroque style.

In the second week of October 1762 the first public concert of the then six-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart took place together with his sister in the Palais Collalto. This was performed for Count Thomas Vinciguerra Collalto and his guests. The Mozart Community in Vienna unveiled a memorial plaque on June 22, 1956.

In 1804, a three-story high wing with a classical facade was erected against the school yard in the courtyard. In 1809 the French general Francois Josef Lefebvre, Hz. Von Danzig, lived in the house. In 1842 a poor tobacconist named Sothen (Johann Karl, later Baron von Sothen) had his shop here, who later introduced the so-called Promessenspiel in Vienna and became very wealthy through various transactions; Among other things, he acquired the Cobenzl estate, owned a house on Graben and was very wealthy.

The last major general renovation of the palace to date took place in 2001. The building is now owned by a foundation left by Karl Wlaschek in 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Wlaschek's real estate in Vienna's first district. In: Falter (weekly newspaper) , No. 33/2015, August 12, 2015, p. 16

literature

Web links

Commons : Palais Collalto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 7.1 ″  E