Almeida Palace

Palais Almeida, 2009

The Palais Almeida or Palais Bayrstorff-Almeida is a classical palace in Munich , Brienner Straße 14.

Architecture and history

The most elegant of the earlier Brienner Strasse Palais was built in 1824 by Jean Baptiste Métivier on the site of the former Georgskirche in the style of French classicism .

The facade structure is based on the pattern that has been common since Joseph Effner , with three storeys and nine window axes , a flat central risalit with a gable . The division of the window axes into three fields of three axes each corresponds to the division into main and side wings. The ground floor is rusticated . The upper floors are integrated and structured by the order of pilasters , on both sides of the middle section, which is decorated with four pilasters, there are three window axes. In the two facade niches originally intended for figures next to the main entrance there are splendid candelabra .

The building owner of the palace was Baroness Sophie Bayrstorff, the bourgeois lover who was later ennobled and, since 1824, the morganatic wife of Prince Karl of Bavaria . The palace inherited from her daughter Sophie, who was married to the Portuguese nobleman Paolo Martins Visconde d'Almeida (1806–1874; in Bavaria usually called Graf d'Almeida ), so that the building was later referred to as the Palais Almeida.

After severe war damage in the Second World War , it was rebuilt in 1952/1953, with the facade being restored in its original form, but with a flatter roof. Today the building is used as an office and commercial building. The inner courtyard of the Palais has been open to the public since 2013 and can be rented for events.