Clam-Gallas Palace (Prague)
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 11.6 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 5.3" E
The Palais Clam-Gallas in Prague is the former baroque seat of the Clam-Gallas family .
Building history and owner
In 1707, the Viceroy of Naples Johann Wenzel von Gallas entrusted the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach with the plans for a palace in Prague's old town . The splendid baroque building, built on the vaulted cellar of a Gothic town house, was carried out by Giovanni Domenico Canevalle , the stone carving was carried out by the royal stonemason master Giovanni Pietro della Torre (end of construction 1713).
After his death, his son Philipp Josef von Gallas , on Friedland, Reichenberg, Grafenstein and Lämberg , died in Budweis in South Bohemia in 1757, had the palace completed by Thomas Haffenecker and commissioned the painter Carlo Carloni to do the wall and ceiling paintings. In 1918, after the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, almost all of the large estates in northern Bohemia were expropriated from the successor family Clam-Gallas in a land reform in the first Czechoslovakia and the relatives fell under the nobility annulment law . Franz Clam-Gallas had valuable inventory brought from the family seat in Prague to Lämberg Castle before the Czech authorities occupied the building. In the period that followed, it was leased to municipal authorities, the house was used for wedding celebrations and, after the fire in the Old Town Hall, served as alternative quarters for the Prague City Archives. Today it is owned by the city and is used for concerts, exhibitions and festive events.
See also
literature
- J. Bergl: Das Palais Clam-Gallas, in: Alt-Prager Almanach 1926, Prague, page 158 ff.
- Karl M. Svoboda (Ed.): Barock in Böhmen , Munich, 1964 (Figure No. 35)
- Johanna von Herzogenberg : Prague - A Guide , Ansbach, 1966 (p. 226 and 227)
- Hans-Ulrich Engel: Castles and palaces in Böhmen , Frankfurt am Main, 1978 (Text: page 32, illustration p. 163)
- Karel Plicka and Emanuel Poche: Prague - A Picture Guide , Prague, 1982 (pp. 140 and 141)
