Imperial House (Baden)

The Imperial House in Baden near Vienna (2011)

The imperial house in Baden near Vienna (right), watercolor by Eduard Gurk (1833)

The Kaiserhaus at Hauptplatz 17 in the city of Baden in Lower Austria dates from the 18th century.

history

The building features a three-storey early classical ( spätjosephinische ) facade with banded ground floor and säulenflankiertem rectangular portal with an overlying balcony of the main projectile whose straight window and door verdachungen on scrolls consoles rest. The second floor is slightly reduced. - In the rear part of the property, the polygonal pavilion (arched doors under a curved roof with a crowning crescent symbol) on the garden wall is attributed to the first quarter of the 19th century (or the period 1834/35 to 1858). The design of the small building is characterized by decorative wall and ceiling paintings, the interior of a tent illusory .

The building is dated in the relevant literature as 1792, built and probably planned by Johann Aman (1765–1834), on behalf of the merchant Johann Jakob Freiherr von Gontard (who later fostered incorrect dating of the imperial family , his house around this time) had rebuilt on the Theaterplatz). When asked about the year of construction, the Baden City Archives came to the conclusion in 2009 that the house in its present form was built by Prince Nikolaus II. Esterházy de Galantha (1765–1833) between 1807 and 1812. In 1813 Esterházy sold the property as well as small parts of neighboring parcels to the Allerhöchste kk Ararium , and Emperor Franz I (1768–1835) subsequently set up his residence in Baden here until 1834. When Baden became the operational headquarters of the Army High Command (AOK) in January 1917 , the revitalized house was often used by Emperor Karl I and his family.

The city of Baden bought the house in 2008. From 2012 it was renovated inside and out. In October 2013 the house was opened as a museum. At the start of a planned series of exhibitions in the Kaiserhaus, Gerhard Tötschinger curated a show with figurines by Helmut Krauhs under the title “The World of the Habsburgs” from October 2013 . In the summer of 2016, the exhibition "The Habsburgs' garden mania" took place in the Kaiserhaus as part of the "Lower Austria Garden Summer". From April 21 to November 4, 2018, the exhibition "Baden Center of Power 1917–1918" was on view in the Kaiserhaus. It deals with the last two years of the First World War, during which Emperor Karl I lived in the Imperial House of Baden and transferred the Supreme Army Command to Baden.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Rudolf Maurer: The Imperial House. New considerations on the dating of the building and its furnishings. Baden sweets. From the work of the city archive. Issue 35. Rollett Museum, Baden (2009). - Full text online (PDF; 456 kB) , accessed on July 31, 2012.

^ Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube . P. 193.

↑ Kräftner: In the shadow of the Weilburg . P. 75.

^ Wallner: Houses . P. 90.

^ Kaiserhaus Baden opens as a museum on ORF from October 2, 2013, accessed on October 2, 2013

^ Johann Werfring: In the imperial house lust for history fanned article in the "Wiener Zeitung" of January 30th, 2014, supplement "ProgrammPunkte", p. 7.

↑ Lower Austria's garden summer presents “The Habsburgs' garden mania” on the website of the Lower Austrian provincial government on January 21, 2016, accessed on April 23, 2018

↑ Baden Center of Power 1917–1918 ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2018 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. accessed on the website of the Federal Chancellery on April 23, 2018 @1@ 2