Palais Holnstein

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View of the facade of the Palais Holnstein
Portal with House Madonna

The Palais Holnstein , later also called Palais Königsfeld or Archbishop's Palace , is a city ​​palace in Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße 7 in Munich (northern old town ). It was built from 1735 to 1737 by François de Cuvilliés on behalf of Elector Karl Albrecht for his natural son Franz Ludwig Graf von Holnstein . Today it is considered the most important of the still preserved aristocratic palaces from the baroque period in Munich, after the more original Palais Piosasque de Non, also by Cuvilliés, was destroyed in the Second World War.

history

On January 13, 1735, Elector Karl Albrecht acquired the property for his natural son Franz Ludwig, the Count of Holnstein . Other sources say that the building was built for Franz Ludwig's mother, the Elector's mistress, Maria Caroline Charlotte Sophie von Ingenheim . The designing architect was the Bavarian court architect François de Cuvilliés .

The palace has been state-owned since 1818 ; it has been the official seat of the Archbishop of Munich and Freising since 1821 and is therefore also known as the Archbishop's Palace . The interiors are not accessible. The first Archbishop of Munich in the palace was Archbishop Lothar Anselm Freiherr von Gebsattel (1761–1846).

architecture

The palace is designed as a four-wing complex around an inner courtyard . The front building was used for representative purposes, while the rear building represented the count's privacy.

The facade division is based on the pattern that has been common since Joseph Effner with three storeys and nine window axes , a flat central projection with a gable . Above the entrance gate in the middle there is a freely swinging balcony, in the roof zone in the gable a coat of arms of Count Holnstein with bastard beams . The division of the window axes into three fields of three axes each corresponds to the inner division into main and side wings. The upper floors are integrated and structured by the order of pilasters , which emerge from a cornice band, a motif that was already out of date at the time of its creation. The striped and embossed ground floor has barred arched windows and round mezzanine windows above . The upper floor on the first floor shows tall rectangular windows with segmental arches between the pilasters , above on the second floor there are arched windows .

The stucco work on the facade and inside was probably created by Johann Baptist Zimmermann . The building is the only aristocratic palace in Munich that still has the original room layout. The rococo facade and many of the interior rooms have been preserved in their original state. The stucco work is attributed to the Wessobrunn artist Johann Baptist Zimmermann .

From 2008 to 2012 the building was extensively refurbished. The second staircase was also reconstructed and the ceiling fresco with the allegorical figures Justitia (right) and Pax (peace) by Johann Baptist Zimmermann in the historic main staircase was largely restored to its original state. The Free State of Bavaria paid 6.5 of the 8.7 million euros for the renovation costs (= 75 percent).

literature

  • Elfi M. Haller, Gabriele Dischinger, Laurentius Koch: Palais Holnstein. A Munich aristocratic palace . Munich 1988.
  • Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: Monuments in Bavaria - State capital Munich. Middle . Volume 2. Munich 2009, pp. 357-360.
  • Eva-Bettina Krems: Palais Holnstein, Munich. In: Frank Büttner, Meinrad von Engelberg, Stephan Hoppe , Eckhard Hollmann (Hrsg.): History of the fine arts in Germany. Volume 5: Baroque and Rococo. Munich 2008, pp. 453–454.
  • Konstantin Köppelmann & Dietlind Pedarnig: Munich Palace . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, pp. 256–281.
  • Stadtarchiv München (ed.): House book of the city of Munich , Volume II, Kreuzviertel, pp. 49–51.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Habel, Hallinger, Weski: Monuments in Bavaria - state capital Munich. Middle. Volume 2, p. 357. An older statement is 1733.
  2. ^ Köppelmann / Pedarnig: Munich Palais . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-820-6 , p. 277 .
  3. ^ Köppelmann / Pedarnig: Munich Palais . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-820-6 , p. 277 .
  4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de October 13, 2013

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 27.6 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 29.8"  E