Festetics Palace (Budapest)
The Festetics Palace (Hungarian: Festetics palota ) is a city palais at Pollack Mihály Square near the National Museum in Budapest . Today it serves as the main building of the German-speaking Hungarian Andrássy University in Budapest .
history
The Festetics Palace was built between 1862 and 1865 by the important Hungarian architect Miklós Ybl . The client was Count György Festetics , who at that time was the acting minister under Count Gyula Andrássy in the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy . The Viennese Palais Festetics served as a model .
Until 1933 the palace was in the hands of the Festetics family . It was only when Prince Tasziló Festetics died that the palace was bought by the Hungarian state and from 1941 onwards it served as the seat of various institutions. The Teleki Pál Institute for History , parts of the Széchényi National Library , and the sociological faculty of the Loránd Eötvös University were located in Palace.
After the Second World War , the palace was also the official residence of the Hungarian President.
The palace was completely renovated and modernized at the same time, so that the current user of the palace, the private Andrássy University , has 3,900 m². The rector's office and several lecture halls were set up, and the German-language library is also located here.
architecture
According to its functions, the building is precisely divided into three parts, namely for representations, private and one part for the servants. The men's apartment was set up on the mezzanine floor . In the Herzogarbeitsraum you will find a wooden ceiling combined with hand-painted silk.
The representative rooms such as the Hall of Mirrors , Marble Hall , Festetics and Andrassysaal were on the first floor. The private rooms were in one wing. A house chapel, which no longer exists today, was also placed there.
The staff rooms were on the first floor of the courtyard wing, while the stables were on the ground floor.
While the street facade was built in the neo-renaissance style, the presentation rooms are based on the French baroque . The staircase, on the other hand, has late baroque features. The small and large salons have a Rococo wall, the oil painting of which was painted by the Viennese academy teacher Friedrich Schmidt.
Web links
- Andrássy University headquarters (PDF; 197 kB)
- Andrassy University
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '30.4 " N , 19 ° 3' 51.1" E