Palais Biron Baden-Baden

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Palais Biron

The Palais Biron is a building at Lichtentaler Straße 92 in Baden-Baden , Baden-Württemberg . The original family residence is now a conference venue. In the remise of the house there is a branch of the IHK Karlsruhe . The Lichtentaler Allee leads past the site .

history

View from the garden side

In 1824 Franz Xaver Degler, farmer and carter, bought the estate. In 1856 the Gut Falkensteg estate was acquired by the Frankfurt entrepreneur Carl Brognis. His daughter Johanna and her husband Ernst Merck bought adjacent land from Carl Ludwig Frommel and had a villa built by the architect Auguste de Meuron in 1857. The house was bought in 1912 by Gustav Adolf Redwitz (1877-1914), who owned it by the architects Scherzinger and Härke, Baden-Baden, had it rebuilt in Art Nouveau style and renamed it "Haus Eden". In 1920 Francoise Princess Biron von Curland (1874–1957) bought the house and renamed it “Palais Biron”. In 1941 the house was acquired by the city of Baden-Baden and served as a hospital during World War II. From 1945 the house was used by the French military administration. In 1955 it came back to the city administration.

In 1957 the house was rented by the IHK Baden-Baden as a chamber seat; In 1987 it was acquired by the IHK and the Society for the Promotion of Young Entrepreneurs as a conference center.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Mengele: Palais Biron Baden-Baden: A journey through time through two centuries. Verlag Regionalkultur, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-435-7

Web links

Commons : Palais Biron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History on the Palais Biron website

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 5.7 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 54.1 ″  E