Kazianer Palace
The Palais Kazianer is a former Graz city palace on Stempfergasse in the Innere Stadt district .
history
The history of the Palais Kazianer goes back to the 15th century when a Georg Pockh sold his house to Christoph von Ratmannsdorf in 1497. The medieval building was finally expanded and rebuilt in the 16th century. The rear wing was renewed in 1669 by Albrecht von Ratmannsdorf. The Baroque reconstruction of the palace took 1742 Earl Alois Josef Kazianer before and after him, the building was named. The family, to which Hans Katzianer , Governor of Krain (1530–1537) also belonged, came from the Krain region , was raised to the rank of count in 1665 and died out in the male line in 1823.
The palace had been owned by the Counts of Goess since 1813. The house was acquired by the Leykam printing company in 1910. Today there is an Ecco Verde shop on the ground floor, a gallery on the second floor and the sales consultancy Menschen im Vertrieb on the third floor.
The parts of the building, which were badly damaged or destroyed after a bomb hit on November 1, 1944, were rebuilt in 1950. The Palais Kaianer belonged to a house association (No. 3–7), whose owner was a newspaper publisher. During the attack, building no. 5 was destroyed by two direct hits, the rest was badly damaged and the jigging machines were badly damaged.
Architecture and design
The Palais Kazianer is a four-storey building with a medieval core. The arched stone portal is crowned by a plastic sandstone ornament , which contains the coat of arms of the Katzianer von Katzenstein family, two panther cats and two ornamental vases (the one on the right is no longer present). The sculpture is attributed to the artist Johannes Piringer . The passage into the inner courtyard and the rooms on the ground floor have a stitch cap vault. The stucco ceilings on the 2nd floor, which were only uncovered in 1966 and 1967, are provided with mythological reliefs depicting Bacchus , Diana and Venus . The reliefs (around 1745) are probably by Pietro Angelo Formentini. The narrow staircase with a wrought iron railing dates from the Baroque era of the palace (between 1742 and 1745).
literature
- Walter Brunner : Bombs on Graz . Leykam, Graz 1989, ISBN 3-7011-7201-3 .
- Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 106-107 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Brunner: Bombs on Graz. Pp. 176 and 178.
- ↑ a b Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 106.
- ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 107.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 14 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 28" E