Archduke Carl's Palace

Archduke Carl-Ypsilanti Palace, today "House of Music"

The Palais Archduke Carl (also Palais Archduke Carl-Ypsilanti ) is on the 1st Vienna district , Inner City Seilerstätte 30th

history

Three houses, which were already mentioned in a document in the 15th century, were rebuilt and expanded several times. In 1567 there was an imperial casting house at this point. In 1603 Emperor Rudolf II donated the building to the court war secretary Heinrich Nickhardt. 1707 to 1788 it was the seat of the Versatzamt and until 1721 also the Fragamt. In 1708 the building was sold to the Grossarmenhaus, rebuilt and given a new facade. In 1788, the Versatzamt moved to the abandoned Dorotheerkloster and the building came into the possession of Daniel Edlem von Zephranovich. In 1805 the building came to Archduke Carl and in 1838 into the possession of Baron Georg Simon von Sina . 1958–1960 the palace was adapted by Josef Krawina for the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Vienna into a cultural center with a theater and student residence. In 1998–2000, on a private initiative, it was again converted into a museum and equipped with music rehearsal rooms and an event hall. The House of Music and the Museum of the Vienna Philharmonic were opened here on June 15, 2000 . Since 2005 the house has been operated by Wien-Holding , owned by the City of Vienna.

description

The building, which is free-standing on three sides - Seilerstätte, Annagasse and Krugerstraße - was built on the former Wasserkunstbastei and has a monumental effect thanks to its closed facade with five floors. The baroque street facade is attributed to Franz Anton Pilgram .

Above a two-storey square base with rectangular windows with straight roofing, three upper storeys with a plaster frame rise. The windows are grouped by interrupting the axis rhythm. On the piano nobile , the windows have bent gables on delicate consoles, and the windows on the storey above have straight roofs. Two lattice balconies, built on the facade in the Seilerstätte around 1872, set an additional accent.

The large staircase has steps made of the hard, white Kaiserstein . A plaque commemorates Otto Nicolai , to whom a memorial room is also dedicated. The arched portal framed by pilaster strips with wedge stone in the Seilerst Place is crowned by a blasted segment gable. The portal in Annagasse with belt arches, supported by double columns, is surmounted by a balcony resting on consoles.

literature

Dehio Vienna, I. District - Inner City, S 347, ISBN 3-85028-366-6

Web links

Commons : Palais Erzherzog Carl - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry about Archduke Carl's Palace on Burgen-Austria

Remarks

↑ At the end of December 1973 (until 1978) under Helmut Siderits, the Kleine Komödie ensemble moved into the building as a boulevard stage and opened with Trude Marlen as an attraction. - See: F (ritz) W (alden) : Opening premiere of the Little Comedy: Cellar theater on the bel étage . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1974, p. 8 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

48.20375 16.373083333333Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 23.1 ″ E

[1] At the end of December 1973 (until 1978) under Helmut Siderits, the Kleine Komödie ensemble moved into the building as a boulevard stage and opened with Trude Marlen as an attraction. - See: F (ritz) W (alden) : Opening premiere of the Little Comedy: Cellar theater on the bel étage . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1974, p. 8 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).