Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

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Ernst von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (born June 18, 1830 in Vienna , † August 21, 1903 in Stixenstein , Lower Austria) was an Austrian nobleman, politician and large landowner .

To distinguish it from his son Ernst Karl the Younger (1856–1940), he was also called Ernst Karl the Elder .

Life

Politicians and patrons

Ernst Karl, Imperial Count von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, was the Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and was appointed hereditary member of the manor of the Austrian Imperial Council by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1861 . At times he was also its vice-president. From 1874–1883 ​​he was a member of the building commission for the Imperial and Royal Reichsratsgebäude built on Vienna's new Ringstrasse , today's parliament building . In 1864 he gave the town of Vienna (fixed contractually 1868) the Stixensteiner source close to since 1555 to Familienfideikommiss belonging Castle Stixenstein in Lower Austria . With this he made the construction of the first Viennese spring water pipeline possible .

Vienna palace

He was particularly interested in architecture. He was also one of the first to secure a building site on the new splendid boulevard on Vienna's Ringstrasse. This property was in a prominent location near the Vienna kk Hofoper and behind the Kärntnertor. It was located at today's address Kärntner Ring 5 and right next to the Palais Gomperz (1860/61; today Kärntner Ring 3), which was built shortly before that . Ernst Karl Hoyos commissioned the Palais Gomperz architect Ludwig Förster to also build his Ringstrasse palace. Construction began in 1861 and should be completed in 1862, but was delayed until the summer of 1863. This and the architect's incorrect cost estimate drove construction costs up, not to the delight of the family. They lived in their palace for around 30 years, and in 1895 they had to move out because they ran out of funds to maintain the house. They rented it to Georg Hoyos, the cousin of Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein. Because of the abandonment of their Ringstrasse palace, the family commissioned the architects Armand Louis Bauqué and Albert Pio to build a city palace in today's Hoyosgasse 5-7 at the corner of Gußhausstrasse in the 4th district. Until its completion, the family lived in a rented apartment on Alleegasse; In 1899 they were able to move into the new Palais Hoyos on the Wieden . This was expanded by Viktor Siedek in 1901 while Ernst Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein was still alive .

Reconstruction of Rosenburg Castle

Hoyo's greatest achievement was the reconstruction of the already partially dilapidated renaissance castle Rosenburg in the Kamptal in Lower Austria, which he owned. The reconstruction, based on the depictions of the castle in the Topographia Windhagiana from 1673, began in 1859 and dragged on for two decades. The Rosenburg, which Hoyos opened to the public in the 19th century, is still family-owned and a tourist attraction in Lower Austria.

family

Karl von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (photographed by Ludwig Grillich 1903)

The Hoyos-Sprinzensteins come from the Spanish noble family Hoyos , who immigrated to Lower Austria from Spain in the 16th century to do military service for the Habsburgs ; the family branch descended from Ludwig Gomez (1552–1600) was raised to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Ferdinand II in 1628 .

Ernst Karl the Elder was the son of Heinrich von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1804-1854) and his wife Felicia, née Zichy von Zich and Vásonkeö (1809-1880). His grandfather was Count Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1779–1849). Since 1856 Ernst Karl was married to Eleonore, née Countess Paar. The couple had eight children.

Honors

• Hoyos-Sprinzenstein was 1091. Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece .
• For the donation of Stixensteiner source to the City of Vienna (see above), he was on October 17, 1873 - a week before the official opening of the aqueduct by commissioning the grand fountain on the Schwarzenbergplatz to - honorary citizen of Vienna appointed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Palais Hoyos. 1st district, formerly Kärntnerring 5th entry (undated) in Planet-Vienna. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
2. ↑ Note: The former Palais Gomperz, built by the Jewish brothers Max and Julius Gomperz and owned by them until their escape from the NAZI regime, is now part of the Ringstrasse Galleries as the Hainischhaus :
   * See: Hainischhaus, Kärntner Ring 3
   * See: Palais Gomperz. 1st district, Kärntner Ring 3rd entry (without date) in Planet-Vienna. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
3. ↑ The further fate of the Ringstrasse) Palais Hoyos: After Georg Hoyos, the neighboring Grand Hotel (to the right of it) rented in order to expand its hotel operations. In 1900 the Hotel Bristol (today's address Kärntner Ring 1) bought the palace of the Hoyos-Sprinzenstein family. The building survived the Second World War , but at the end of the war it burned down completely and had to be removed. In its place a 1950s office building was erected, which was demolished in the late 1990s (together with the burned down headquarters of Steyr Daimler Puch at No. 7-9) and in its place the complex of the Palais Corso with the Ringstrasse galleries and the Grand Hotel was built has been.
4. ^ Palais Hoyos-Sprinzenstein. 4th district, Hoyosgasse 5-7. Entry (without date) in Planet-Vienna. Retrieved September 10, 2012. (The Palais auf der Wieden is rented today and is the seat of the consulate of the Republic of Zambia .)
5. ^ Anna Maria Sigmund : The rescue of the Rosenburg - restoration and remodeling 1859-1875. In: Our home. Journal of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria. 63. Vol. 4, 1992, pp. 313-339.
6. ↑ Genealogy of the Hoyos family.

literature

• Michael S. Habsburg-Lothringen: The Hoyos Family. History and personalities. In: Nobility in Transition. Politics, culture, denomination 1500–1700. Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition Rosenburg 1990, Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, Cultural Department, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3854600194 , pp. 565–576.
• Hans Hoyos: Horner castle lords from the Hoyos family. In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Höbarthmuseum and museum association in Horn. Horn 1980, p. 206 ff.