Great Federlhof
The Große Federlhof was a landmark building with a high tower in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , which was demolished in 1845. It was located on Lugeck and stretched from the beginning of Bäckerstrasse to Rotenturmstrasse .
There was already a patrician court here in the 14th century (first mentioned in 1360). This was rebuilt for Peter von Edlasberg from 1495–97 - this is how the city of Vienna's first Renaissance building was built. In 1591 the building became the property of Georg Federl, the owner of the Tribuswinkel lordship. That is why it was subsequently referred to as the Großer Federlhof. (The neighboring house was the Kleine Federlhof.) The Große Federlhof was a landmark building with an eye-catching seven-storey tower and a domed crown. In 1537 Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus , is said to have lived here. The observatory at the top of the tower was set up around 1630 by the Italian astronomer Andreas Argoli (1570–1657). The Federlhof served as a residence for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , among others, in 1713 . In 1825 it passed into the possession of Georg Simon Freiherr von Sina , who demolished it and two neighboring houses in 1845 and had a large new building erected in their place from 1846 to 1847. In 1860 the new building was the house where Carl Ritter von Ghega died.
literature
- Wilhelm Maximilian Kisch : The old streets and squares of Vienna and their historically interesting houses . M. Gottlieb's publishing house, Vienna 1883.
- Dehio Handbook: The Art Monuments of Austria. Vienna, I. District - Inner City . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, p. 767.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 35 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 27.9" E