Herberstein Palace (Vienna)
The so-called Palais Herberstein is a large Gründerzeit apartment building in Vienna's 1st district of Inner City on the corner of Michaelerplatz and Herrengasse .
Building history
From 1896 to 1897 the Palais Dietrichstein , which was built there in 1818, with the literary meeting place Café Griensteidl was replaced by the current building designed by the architect Karl König . The construction area reduced by around 500 square meters compared to the previous building due to the expansion of the forecourt and the expensive downtown location prompted architects and builders to make maximum use of the building site. Hans Tietze noted in 1910 that the Königs building was taking on the order of the representative building of the Hofburg, but could not afford the luxury of the colossal main floor and therefore had to split it up into two floors. The dome placed on the building also disrupts the effect of the palace dome. Said dome was removed in 1936 by the builder and then owner family Herberstein in the course of a first, primarily economically motivated, addition by the architect Felix Nemecic (Felix Nemečić Baron von Bihaćgrad) (1909–1980).
Todays use
In 1951 the Herberstein family sold the building to the Cooperative Central Bank, today's Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB). For a few years the editorial office of the daily newspaper Der Standard was rented here. In 1998, RZB had the architect Karl Langer add another storey and partially gutted it. Jan Tabor, a Viennese architecture critic, praised the intervention as a “male increase in storeys”, while those who keep the cityscape were skeptical. The construction site at Herrengasse 1 is still the focus of critical attention. The building from 1897 was already considered to be a “swanky building that wanted to imitate the Hofburg” and “indulgence in massive neo-baroque”; the most recent addition has raised the already extremely dominant building again and represents a further primarily economically motivated intervention in the inner-city roofscape . The name Palais Herberstein is of recent origin and should be seen in analogy to commercial terms such as Palais Ferstel or “Palais Dorotheum ”. From 1990 on, there was again a "Café Griensteidl" on the ground floor, which only had the name in common with its predecessor.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Male topping up . In: architektur im netz , nextroom.at.
- ↑ See Markus Landerer in: Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien . Vienna 2005, p. 10
- ^ Edgard Haider: Lost Vienna. Noble palaces of days gone by . Vienna 1984, p. 17 f.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Café Griensteidl closes its doors: 33 employees affected . Article dated June 26, 2017, accessed June 27, 2017.
Remarks
- ↑ Around the turn of 1899/1900 the municipality of Vienna was granted the right to demolish the roof by a decision of the Administrative Court . In the course of a settlement procedure , the client proposed, when assuming the procedural costs incurred and paying 3,000 guilders in favor of the general supply fund of the municipal administration, to forego the removal of the component and to allow it to be left in its current form . Immediately after approval of the compensation request by the Vienna City Council who received Magistrate a letter in which he announced that he could pay (given its financial situation) only 2,000 florins to the pension fund by the client. - See: Little Chronicle. (...) For today's municipal council meeting. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 12730/1900, February 1, 1900, p. 1, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). as well as the dome on the Palais Herberstein. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 12731/1900, February 2, 1900, p. 6, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
Web links
- Palais Herberstein near "Planet Vienna" (German, with photos)
- Male topping up . In: architektur im netz , nextroom.at.
- Entry via Palais Herberstein (Vienna) to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 58 ″ E