Cumberland Palace
The Palais Cumberland is a palace in the west of Vienna and the seat of the Czech Embassy in Vienna . The magnificent building is in the 14th district of Penzing , at Penzinger Straße 11-13.
history
Originally there were three houses in the area of today's house numbers 9 and 11, until Emanuel Teles de Silva , who later came to the Viennese court from Lisbon in 1730 , had a palace built on the property at house number 9 in 1745. A little later, this became the residence of Prince Charles of Lorraine . The Silva family built a new palace next door at number 11. In 1866 King George V , 2nd Duke of Cumberland , flew to Vienna. Here he acquired both buildings in 1868. In addition, the imperial hunter's house at number 13 was bought and converted into a residence in exile. In 1878 the blind King George V of Hanover died in Paris and was buried in London .
His son Ernst August , 3rd Duke of Cumberland, had the magnificent Cumberland Castle built in Gmunden am Traunsee as a residence in exile in the then fashionable neo-Gothic style and took the Guelph collection with him.
At the eastern end of the Cumberland Palace, Maria Theresa had the Penzinger barracks built as a cavalry barracks in 1758 . This barracks was demolished in 1839/1840. The former parade grounds of the barracks formed the garden of the palace after 1841.
After the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy , the embassy of the Czechoslovak Republic moved into the building at number 11–13 in 1921 . Today the embassy of the Czech Republic is located here . In 1940, the Max Reinhardt Seminar , the famous drama school , moved into the part of the palace at number 9 .
See also
Web links
- Czech Embassy website
- wien.at | Cumberland Palace
- planet-vienna.com | Cumberland Palace
- Entry via Palais Cumberland on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 21 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 45 ″ E