Palais Galler

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Palais Galler

The Palais Galler , or Palais Prandegg , is a former Graz city ​​palace on Karmeliterplatz in the Inner City district .

history

In the course of the baroque city ​​expansion, the city walls were pushed forward to the east and new building land was developed. The two previous buildings of the palace with garden plots were acquired by Count Viktor Jacob von Prandegg in 1674. The houses were then demolished and the baroque palace built on the site around 1680 and 1690 under the direction of the builder Bartholomäus Ebner. The palace was bought by Count Wilhelm Galler as early as 1693. The following owners are not known until the palace was referred to as Breunersches Haus in 1748 and a Countess Elisabeth von Galler was attested as the owner from 1785 to 1803. After another change of ownership, the builder Andreas Stadler was commissioned by Friedrich Chevalier de Bachet to carry out a complete renovation.

From 1920 the Catholic Mission Association White Cross was the owner of the Palais Galler until it was expropriated in 1938. After Austria was annexed to Germany, the building served as the headquarters of the Gauleitung of the NSDAP until the White Cross got its property rights restituted after the end of the war and was soon replaced as owner by the diocese of Graz-Seckau . In 1977 the Palais Galler was sold to the Styrian People's Party , which has had its headquarters there ever since.

Architecture and design

The mighty building block has two storeys on the main front, which faces Karmeliterplatz, and four storeys on the back because of the sloping terrain. On the sides of the Palais is enclosed by two side projections, the western buttress from the construction time comes (1680/90) and the eastern was added until the 1834th The baroque facade is decorated with geometric plaster fields.

The steingerahmten arched portal is a supported by two Doric columns double arbor in front. It was built in the classical style around 1843 by Josef Benedict Withalm . The courtyard arcades of the side wings are walled up on the ground floor. The cross-vaulted arcades on the first and second floors rest on Tuscan columns. The two wall slots closed by barbed bars are the oldest building details of the palace and date from the 15th century.

The entrance hall with a stitch cap vault was not built until 1843. Two angular pillars serve as supporting elements on the main staircase. The interior of the building is decorated with stucco ceilings from the 17th century. An Empire tiled stove with green glaze (around 1780/90) and a neo-renaissance fireplace (3rd quarter of the 19th century) have been preserved from the original interior .

Older Palais Galler

A smaller, older Palais Galler from the 16th century. is 300 m south (and about 15 m below) at the address Glockenspielplatz 7.

literature

  • Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 83 .
  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 82 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry about Palais Prandegg / Galler on Burgen-Austria
  2. ↑ Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 82.
  3. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 83.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 24.6 "  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 27.7"  E