Archduke Anton's palace
The Palais Erzherzog Anton is a palace and residential building at Antonsgasse 10-12 in the municipality of Baden in the district of the same name in Lower Austria .
history
In 1810 Archduke Anton (1779–1835) acquired the property ON 12 from Philipp von We (t) zlar. In the same year Joseph Graf von Thörheim (rather: Thürheim ) created his own dwelling at the back of the house , which had been separated from the house at Neustiftgasse 29. After the city fire on July 26th, 1812, nothing was left of the Archduke's house but incoherent walls . In 1812 Archduke Anton also bought the adjacent house ON 10, which had also burned down, and in 1815 it was owned by Count Thörheim.
At the time of the acquisition of Antonsgasse 10, the construction work on Villa ON 12 had already progressed too far to include the new building site organically. A Roman sarcophagus was probably recovered in 1815 during the basic excavation for the foundations of the rear wing . The buried person is likely to have been a doctor, as 14 surgical instruments made of bronze, iron and bone and hanging on a bronze ring were found as grave goods . This discovery prompted Ferdinand Hebra to write his inaugural dissertation , a historical account of the trepanation of the skull . Architectural symmetry could only be brought into the alley with the two majestic house gates . Inside, on the other hand, the stable buildings were already standing, so that two parallel courtyards, one wide and one narrow, lead to the actual palace. This too was already finished, and although it disturbed the balance of the building with its elegant side gable, it was simply extended to the right by the width of the newly added property. Instead, space was found between the two components for a monumental staircase. A widespread tradition in Baden says that the stair railing is made up of rifle barrels from the Battle of Aspern (1809) - after all, Archduke Anton was the brother of Archduke Carl (1771–1847), the victor of Aspern.
Architecture and equipment
The palace, which he moved into in 1816, is sometimes attributed to Josef Kornhäusel (1782–1860). Johann Kräftner names an unknown builder as the planner / executor . The two-storey ten-axis street wing with a banded ground floor has a strong cordon cornice and two pilaster-flanked portals , the straight lintel of which is supported by volutes in the spandrels and extends to the cornice of the upper floor. The straight crowns of the windows rest on high consoles. On the courtyard side, three wing structures adjoin the street tract at a right angle, forming two elongated alley-like courtyards, which open towards a third courtyard the width of the property and lead to the garden tract. The facades of the eastern longitudinal courtyard are structured by pilasters and blind arches with inscribed rectangular fields, which are broken through by arched windows and doors. The two-story garden wing is characterized by tall rectangular windows and a cordon and sill cornice. The three-axis, gabled central projection in the axis of the eastern longitudinal courtyard conceals arched doors and windows.
Individual evidence
- ^ Maurer: The Viennese suburb. P. 77.
- ↑ Drescher: Forays. P. 20.
- ^ Maurer: The Viennese suburb. P. 42.
- ↑ Kräftner: Im Schatten der Weilburg , p. 207.
- ^ Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube. P. 180 f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 33.4 ″ N , 16 ° 14 ′ 19.4 ″ E