Goltz-Kinsky Palace

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Palais Kinsky, frontal view
The Palais Kinsky from above, to the right of it the house to the stone bell

Palais Goltz-Kinsky (also Palais Kinsky , Czech Palác Goltz-Kinských or Palác Kinských ) is a palace on the Old Town Square ( Staroměstské náměstí ) No. 12 in the Czech capital Prague .

It was built in the years 1755–1765 on the site of two medieval houses by order of Johann Ernst Wenzel Graf von der Goltz . The original designs come from Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer , who died before construction began in 1751. The Italian builder Anselmo Lurago continued his work . After the building was completed, the client died and his widow sold the building in 1768 to the noble Bohemian Kinsky family , who owned the building until 1945. The palace was built in the Rococo style, but already shows clear signs of the emerging classicism . The figurative jewelry comes from the workshop of the sculptor Ignaz Franz Platzer .

Anton Langweil lived there in 1819 . Bertha von Suttner (a née Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau) was born in Palais Kinsky and spent part of her childhood there. Later, part of the building served as a Kk state high school with German as the language of instruction in Prague's old town , which was attended by Franz Kafka , Franz Werfel , Max Brod , Karl Kraus and Alfred Meißner , among others . In the interwar period, the palace housed the embassy of the Polish Republic (1922–1934).

According to the official version of the then communist regime of Czechoslovakia , Klement Gottwald announced on February 25, 1948 from the balcony of the Kinsky Palace the resignation of the previous government and the communist takeover of power. According to today's historians, it did not happen here, but from the back of a truck on Wenceslas Square.

Today the building houses the general management of the National Gallery in Prague , which is spread over various locations , as well as a permanent exhibition on Czech landscape painting.

literature

  • Zdenek Wirth, Jaroslav Benda: Castles and palaces of Czechoslovakia. Artia, Prague 1954, p. B-278.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Žádný balkon , Adam B. Bartoš: iDnes.cz of February 26, 2008 (Czech), accessed on November 15, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Palais Goltz-Kinsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 17 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 18 ″  E