Palais Kollonitsch
The Palais Kollonitsch is a former Graz city palace on Schmiedgasse in the Innere Stadt district .
history
In 1641, Count Otto Gottfried Kollonitsch , imperial regimental councilor and treasurer of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, acquired a town house that existed on this site. It was the so-called " Judelhaus ", a building that the Roman-German King Maximilian I had given his councilor Erhard von Polheim in 1496. In the following period it was in the possession of Baron Hanns Wilhelm von Galler and was resold by him in 1630 to the landscape cook Sebastian Khneißl before it passed into the possession of Count Kollonitsch. It was eventually brought into a family entailment.
Today's palace was built after the previous building was demolished. From 1772 the manorial house was left to the count and kk chamberlain Joseph Kottulinsky for three years. A major renovation began in 1780 and was completed with a roof renewal in 1815. After the death of the last representative of the Kollonitsch family, Count Max von Kollonitsch, the palace was given to the real estate agent and Major Martin Prandstetter-Theimer (it was probably the grandson of Martin Teimer von Wildau (1778–1838) Tyrolean freedom fighter and Austrian officer and Military-Maria-Theresia-Ordens-Ritter), who had the rooms on the ground floor converted into business premises. In 1901 parts of the building were rented to the City of Graz and in 1918 the palace became the property of the inns' cooperative. The Chamber of Commerce was housed in the premises of the palace until 1972. Palais Kollonitsch has been privately owned since the early 1970s and is currently owned by the SRS Immobilien Group.
Well-known personalities who currently live in the palace are the artists Sascha Chernysh and Tina Zündel.
Architecture and design
The three-storey aristocratic palace of the late Renaissance was built with arcades around a rectangular inner courtyard. There are two polygonal corner bay windows on the upper floor of the street facade. They are each supported by three Tuscan columns. Since their bases protruded too far into “ Schmiedgasse ”, a part had to be removed in 1839 on the instructions of the city building authority.
A relief with the coat of arms of the Kollonitsch family is located above the rusting round arch stone portal of the central axis of the front facade. Below is a building inscription with the note of the year of construction 1642 and the client, Count Otto Gottfried von Kollonitsch with his wife Johanna Sophia, nee. Countess Thurn, appropriate. A wide driveway leads to the inner courtyard with three-storey arcades on the northeast and southeast facade. On the ground floor, the arches are supported by square pillars and on the two upper floors by Tuscan columns.
The open anteroom ( sala ) on the first and second floors can be reached via stone stairs. It is worth mentioning a hall with a mirror vault on the second floor of the main wing. It is decorated with cartouche paintings (around 1690) by Antonio Maderni and with stucco decorations by Joseph Antonio Serenio. The paintings show depictions of the homage to Eros as well as some erotes , putti-like child angels and the four seasons. The rococo stucco ceilings (around 1760/65) in some other rooms are presumably made by Heinrich Formentini . The house chapel was on the first floor of the south wing. It consisted of two yokes and had a stitch cap vault. The stucco decoration dates from the 17th century.
literature
- Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 102 .
- Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 85 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry about Palais Kollonitsch on Burgen-Austria
- ↑ a b Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 85.
- ↑ Homepage of the current private owner SRS Immobilien at www.srs-immobilien.at
- ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 102.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 7.4 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 22.4" E