Lorenz Rhomberg House
The Lorenz-Rhomberg-Haus is a listed town house in the Austrian city of Dornbirn . It is located in the Markt district on the eastern side of the Dornbirn market square between it and Vorarlberger Straße . Today the bourgeois city palace, built in 1796, houses the city archive and the Dornbirn city museum .
history
The owner of the splendid town house in a prime location - directly on the Dornbirn market square and opposite the parish church of St. Martin - was canvas owner and mayor Josef Anton Lanter. Lanter, whose wife Maria Franziska Katharina came from the wealthy Stauder family, was able to fall back on a piece of land belonging to his father-in-law Johann Nepomuk Stauder for the construction of the building. The old wooden building that had previously stood at this point was bought, demolished and rebuilt elsewhere. Since the Stadtpalais was largely financed with funds from the Stauder family, the Stauder family coat of arms can still be found today under the year 1796 above the entrance portal to the market square. The Dornbirn master builder Sigmund Hilbe was commissioned with the construction, and shortly afterwards he also built the sister palace on Marktstrasse, today's Adolf-Rhomberg-Haus .
The Second Coalition War against France in 1799 brought an unusual guest to the palace for 14 days. The Russian army, which was on its way from Italy to Germany, had to take an unplanned detour via Graubünden and Vorarlberg due to strong French enemy formations in northern Switzerland. Field Marshal Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow therefore set up camp with some of his troops in the small community of Dornbirn and himself and his command staff took up quarters in the town house of Josef Anton Lanter. Only after a 14-day stay in Dornbirn did the army travel north via Lindau.
Since the landlord Josef Anton Lanter only had one daughter, Katharina, after his death in 1835 the house changed into the possession of Katharina, who meanwhile the factory owner Josef Anton Rhomberg jun. had married. Thus, the Bürgerpalais on the market square came into the possession of the Rhomberg family for the first time, who subsequently owned it for five generations.
For propaganda purposes, a provisional " NSDAP Gauleitung Vorarlberg" was located in the building in 1938 , but this was dissolved when Austria joined Germany and Vorarlberg was merged with Tyrol to form Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg . The last private owner of the house was Lorenz Rhomberg , who handed it over to the city of Dornbirn in 1953, which had it renovated and renovated in stages from 1993. From 1994 the city archives could move into the ground floor and use the cellar. In 1997 the city museum followed with the use of the first and second floors as well as the top floor. The small park with a fountain west of the building facing the market square is just as much a public green space as the green area east of it facing the city street and the town hall.
literature
- Franz Kalb: The Lorenz Rhomberg House and its surroundings . In: Stadtarchiv Dornbirn (ed.): Dornbirner Schriften. Contributions to urban studies . Volume No. 4 Dornbirn, 1988. ISBN 3-85430-094-8
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Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 49.2 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 35.7" E