New Town Hall (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)
The New Town Hall , formerly the Rosenberg Palace , on Neuer Platz, has been the town hall of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee since 1918 .
history
The state governor's secretary Paul Ready built a house on the site of today's town hall from 1580 to 1582; his widow sold it to the Gurk cathedral provost in 1602 . In 1616 it came to the cathedral chapter. The building was destroyed in the town fire in 1636. Prince-Bishop Lodron sold the ruins to Johann Andreas von Rosenberg in 1650 . He built today's palace. A fire in 1700 caused further damage, but the palace was repaired again. In the early 19th century, the facades were redesigned in a classical style, with the Renaissance portal remaining. On November 1, 1918, the Rosenberg family exchanged the palace for the old town hall and left their palace to the municipality.
Building description
The building takes up the entire western narrow side of Neuer Platz. It is 15 window axes long, seven window axes wide and three storeys high. In the middle of the square is the rustikaportal from the 16th century. It is a rectangular arched portal made of the chlorite slate characteristic of Klagenfurt . Columns are presented to the side, spheres sit on the architrave above the columns. The bay windows on the corners of the building also date from the Renaissance and are typical of Klagenfurt's mansions from the 16th century.
The cornice on the ground floor is grooved horizontally and is broken through by the portal. The facade has ribbon-like pilasters that merge into a ribbon-like cornice without a capital . The facade is crowned by a triangular gable that is three window axes wide. In this central project, the facade is structured by double pilasters with ionizing capitals. Here the windows on the main floor have triangular gables, while all the other windows have horizontal roofs supported by small brackets. The window parapets on the first floor consist of baluster railings in relief, those on the second floor are connected to the lower windows by subdivided plastering fields.
The vestibule has a shallow vault. Inside, a double staircase of low, wide steps with pilaster railings made of chlorite slate leads to the first floor. The staircase is reminiscent of the stairs in the Landhaushof .
literature
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt city. Your works of art, historical forms of life and settlement (Austrian art monograph; Vol. 10). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1994, ISBN 3-900173-26-5 , pages 158-160 (reprint of the Salzburg edition 1980).
- Georg Dehio (greeting), Ernst Bacher (editing): Carinthia ( Austria's art monuments ). 2nd Edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7031-0522-4 , page 291.
Web links
- Entry via Klagenfurt - Palais Rosenberg (New Town Hall) on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 26.3 " N , 14 ° 18 ′ 24.2" E