Batthyány Palace

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The Batthyány-Strattmann Palace in Herrengasse

The Palais Batthyány (also: Palais Batthyány-Strattmann ) is a palace in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City , at the corner of Herrengasse 19 and Bankgasse 2.

history

The large building complex was created in 1716 through the merger of the Palais Orsini-Rosenberg, which stood at Herrengasse 19, and two houses in Bankgasse. In 1718 Eleonore Batthyány-Strattmann bought the palace. They commissioned the architect Christian Alexander Oedtl , who carried out the conversion of the middle building and provided the ensemble with a uniform facade. In the second half of the 19th century, the Hotel Klomser was located at 19 Herrengasse, which gained fame through the suicide of Colonel Alfred Redl . In 1911 it came back into the possession of the Batthyány family for a short time and was sold to the Lower Austrian Fire Damage Insurance in 1924. The state rooms were destroyed by the adaptation work. In 1988 the palace came into the possession of Constantia Privatbank AG. Until 2012, the daily newspaper Der Standard and its editorial office were rented in the building section of the former Orsini-Rosenberg Palace . After a general renovation, there are now rental apartments in the Palais and commercial space on the ground floor.

Historical events

The beautiful Lori

Eleonore Countess Batthány was called "The beautiful Lori" because of her beauty. She was the friend of the aged Prince Eugene , who had remained unmarried throughout his life and whose palace was not far in Himmelpfortgasse. Whist , a card game that had only recently become known from England , was played at evening meetings .

Colonel Redl

At the end of the 19th century, the Hotel Klomser was located in the Palais on the corner of Herrengasse and Bankgasse, which had become famous after the suicide of Colonel Alfred Redl in 1913. Colonel Redl was convicted of spying for Russia.

description

Above a grooved base, the barrel facing Herrengasse has a row of windows with richly decorated parapets and triangular and partly straight window gables on the piano nobile . The portal, created around 1718, is attributed to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach . A wrought iron balcony is cut into a round arch portal. On the pedestals are vases from which snakes gush. The side of the gate is flanked by pilasters that are decorated with war trophies. The coat of arms of Prince Batthyány is placed in front of the segment-shaped gable of the balcony door.

The high, grooved base also extends over the facade in Bankgasse. Here the windows on the first floor are decorated alternately with triangular and segmented gables. The parapets are decorated with plants. Here, too, the round arch portal with a wrought iron grille in the round arch is dominant. Again there is a heraldic cartouche with a crown and the Order of the Golden Fleece , to the right and left of it putti . The stone balcony visually jumps back through the mighty entablature, supported by two pilasters .

literature

Web links

Commons : Palais Batthyány, Bankgasse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The STANDARD house as a future project in Der Standard from December 29, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2013
  2. ↑ When the Palais becomes a residential building again in: Der Standard from March 28, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '39.3 "  N , 16 ° 21' 52.1"  E