Esterházy Palace (Wallnerstrasse)
The Esterházy Palace on Wallnerstrasse is a palace in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City . In contrast to the Count's Palais Esterházy on Kärntner Straße , it was owned by the princely line of the Esterházy family .
history
At the current location of the palace there were originally 14 different houses, which only came to the Esterhazy family over time, which meant that the palace was only gradually expanded. The origin of the palace consists of three houses in the Wallnerstraße 4, two as Hungarian House designated buildings and the power house later, House of Grabner and Unverzagt called. The two Hungarian houses went to Nikolaus Oláh , the highest chancellor in Hungary and Archbishop of Erlau . After his death they were divided among his heirs. Later one house fell to the Esterházys through marriage in 1616, and the other through sale in 1664 after the previous owners got into financial difficulties. The power house was sold to Prince Paul I Esterházy in 1668 , who now owned all three houses.
In 1685 he had some renovations done, but two years later he decided to build a new palace from scratch. Who was responsible for the construction is unknown, but it was probably Francesco Martinelli who had already carried out the renovation. The Viennese master stonemason Johann Carl Trumler processed the hard Kaiserstein from the Imperial quarry especially for stages stones and supporting architectural elements. The palace was completed in 1695. Various alterations took place in 1745–1746 and 1751. That was u. a. a new portal and the installation of another staircase, carried out by master stonemason Gabriel Steinböck . In 1755, Prince Paul II Anton Esterházy acquired the houses at the Haarhof and had the palace expanded in 1756 by master builder Johann Ferdinand Mödlhammer . The princely living quarters were renewed in 1791.
Nikolaus II Prince Esterházy , like his grandfather, led a lavish life and at various times bought the houses adjoining the palace in Naglergasse. Several extensions were built there in three construction phases. Nikolaus had taken over financially and despite the sale of several other properties, the palace was placed under compulsory administration in 1832 . Although Paul III. Anton Prince Esterházy achieve a temporary lifting of this condition, but the sequestration was not finally ended until 1898.
After Paul (V.) Esterházy died in 1989, his widow Melinda gave shares to his next of kin and sold the palace with them to Palais Esterházy Development Ges.mbH , a company that belongs to Creditanstalt .
Today the building is owned by a foundation left by Karl Wlaschek in 2015 . The rooms in the palace are rented to companies, organizations and private individuals.
description
The main facade on Wallnerstrasse is Baroque-Classicist with giant Ionic pilasters . The elaborate wrought iron railing bears the golden Esterházy family coat of arms. Inside there are two courtyards. The most important rooms are several salons, the large and small ancestral gallery , the dining room with a large Empire stove and the Vieux-laque room with Chinese lacquer panels. There is also a 1699 dedicated to St. Chapel consecrated to Leopold with a two-storey hall. The chapel contains baroque altars and an organ from around 1800. It was a place of activity of Joseph Haydn . Consecration is still upright today, but masses are no longer read.
Esterházykeller
The wine cellar goes back to the Hungarian house . The well-known restaurant was probably opened in 1808 and has hardly changed since then.
literature
- Richard Perger: The Palais Esterházy in Wallnerstrasse in Vienna , Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7005-4645-9
- Dehio-Handbuch Wien I. Bezirk - Innere Stadt , Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6
- Helmuth Furch: Kaiserstein in Wiener Bauten, 300 examples , in communications from the Kaisersteines Museum and Culture Association, No. 59, December 2000.
- Ernestine Stadler, Frank Taubenheim: Really Viennese: About people and their shops in Vienna . European Publishing House , Hamburg 2005. ISBN 978-3434505976 .
- ÖRAG, Österreichische Realitäten-AG: Report on the revitalization of the Esterházy Palace , Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-85320-896-7 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Wlaschek's real estate in the first district of Vienna , in: Falter (weekly newspaper) , No. 33/2015, August 12, 2015, p. 16
Web links
- Entry via Palais Esterházy (Majoratshaus) on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 35 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 1 ″ E