Coburg Palace
The Palais Coburg is a late classicist city palace in the 1st district of Vienna, completed in 1845 . It is located at Coburgbastei 4 and was erected there on the Braunbastei, a remnant of the bastions of Vienna that were created in the 16th and 17th centuries and razed in the 19th century .
history
19th century
The original design from 1839 for the client Ferdinand Georg August von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry came from the Viennese architect Karl Schleps . After his death in 1840, the palace was completed by builder Adolf Korompay in five years. The building site came into the possession of the Coburg family through the marriage of Ferdinand to Maria Antonie Gabriele von Koháry .
The free-standing columns in the middle part of the facade gave the building the nickname Asparagus Castle . For the steps of all staircases, especially the monumental grand staircase and supporting architectural parts, white, very hard imperial stone from Kaisersteinbruch was used .
After completion, the palace was not inhabited until the revolutionary year 1848; August von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Clementine d'Orléans moved into it in 1849 . They adapted parts of the palace as an apartment building and rented them out. In addition, they furnished the state rooms on the first floor with the insignia of the French royal family and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . In 1864 the crowning of the figures on the central risalit was completed .
20th century
1945 bombs damaged the building.
From 1945 to 1955 there were Russian occupation troops in the Palais Coburg, from 1955 to 1997 the ÖBB was rented on two floors. The last owner from the Saxon-Coburg-Koháry family was Sarah Aurelia, b. Hálasz, who lived there until her death in 1994, but sold it to real estate agents in 1978. After the owner went bankrupt, it came into the possession of the Länderbank , from which the Viennese entrepreneur and asset manager Peter Pühringer acquired it in 1997.
21st century
The new owner extensively renovated the palace between 2000 and 2003 after it was very dilapidated. Today, located in the Palais Coburg in addition to the offices of companies Pühringers the luxury hotel Palais Coburg Residenz and two restaurants, including the two Michelin stars excellent Silvio Nickol Gourmet Restaurant .
Negotiations on Iran's nuclear program with the foreign ministers of the UN veto powers and Germany took place here several times. On July 14, 2015, after a 13-year nuclear dispute with Iran, after three weeks of negotiations in the Palais Coburg, an agreement was reached with the EU, the five UN veto powers and Germany.
literature
- Günter Fuhrmann: House of Kings. The Vienna Palais Coburg , Amalthea Signum , Vienna 2018, ISBN 9783990501214
- Günter Fuhrmann, Maria Mustapic: The Secrets of the Inner City , Metro Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 9783993002855
- Klaus-Peter Högel, Richard Kurdiovsky: Das Palais Coburg , Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna September 2003, ISBN 385498300X
- Helmuth Furch: Kaiserstein in Viennese buildings, 300 examples , in communications of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch , No. 59, p. 33, December 2000. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
- Barbara Dmytrasz. The Ringstrasse . Amalthea, Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-85002-588-1 .
Web links
- Website of the Hotel Palais Coburg
- Entry via Palais Coburg on Burgen-Austria
- planet-vienna.com - Palais Coburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ History | Coburg Palace. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
- ^ DiePresse.com - The second house in the city . Article dated April 14, 2018, accessed April 14, 2018.
- ^ Vienna nuclear talks with Iran failed for the time being. In: derStandard.at. November 25, 2014, accessed December 6, 2017 .
- ↑ derStandard.at - Historical agreement reached in nuclear negotiations with Iran in Vienna . Article dated July 14, 2015, accessed July 14, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 21 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 36 ″ E