Arenberg Palace
The Palais Arenberg was a palace in the 3rd Vienna district highway in the country Hauptstrasse 96th
history
In 1785 Prince Nikolaus Esterházy bought a large plot of land of around 50,000 square meters on Landstrasse and had a garden laid out. On the street front he had three houses demolished and a simple palace built. In 1810, his grandson Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy sold the property to Archduke Karl , who had extensive renovations carried out and opened the garden to the citizens. After his wedding, he moved to the newly built Weilburg Castle at the entrance to the Helenental valley and sold the property to the wholesaler Samuel Kaan. From 1842 on, Princess Sophie Karoline Arenberg appears as the owner. Since she no longer needed the palace towards the end of the 19th century and had rented it, she finally sold it to the municipality of Vienna around 1900. Large parts of the garden were parceled out and built, the rest went up in Arenbergpark . There is also a pavilion from Esterházy's garden in it. The resulting Dannebergplatz quarter is an almost closed ensemble of late historical-secessionist upper-class apartment buildings.
The palace was the residence of General Director Fellinger of the nearby Siemens & Halske works. The composer Johannes Brahms was a good friend of Mr. Fellinger and therefore a welcome guest in the palace. After the Second World War, the palace was the seat of the youth welfare office and remained in existence until 1958, when it was demolished to enable the extension of Neulinggasse to Landstraßer Hauptstraße .
description
The palace was a simple, one-story building with a high pitched roof and attic windows. The windows on the piano nobile were fitted with straight window canopies on consoles and subtle ornaments on the parapets and lintels. Business premises were later set up on the ground floor facing the street. A wooden porch with a veranda was attached to the garden exit. Above it was a group of geniuses with Saturn as the gable decoration.
literature
- Dehio Vienna, II. To IX. and XX. District , p. 105 u. 137. ISBN 3-7031-0680-8
Web links
- Planet Vienna - Palais Arenberg
- Arenberg Palace. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 4, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Körner: Nikolaus II. Esterházy and the art. Biography of a manic collector . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78922-2 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 56.4 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 39" E