Palais Löffler

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Palais Löffler, 2006
The building shortly after its completion

The Palais Löffler ( Romanian Palatul Löffler ), also Löffler Castle or Löffler Palace , is a listed building on the Piața Victoriei of the western Romanian city ​​of Timișoara .

history

The building was built between 1912 and 1913 by the married couple Leopold Löffler with their three sons and the Löfflers company as a family and company headquarters with commercial rooms on the ground floor in the vicinity of the National Theater and Opera House and in an eclectic style with Baroque and Art Nouveau elements of the Vienna Secession designed.

When buying the building plot, Löffler was subject to conditions by the city administration, so the construction time had to be less than a year, and the architectural design, especially the facade, had to be approved by the city's chief architect , László Székely . In addition, the rear of the building had to be structurally demarcated from the Hunyadi Castle behind it and further developed. Here the building was richly decorated, including two groups of statues. Inside the building, 46 apartments with a total of 142 rooms were set up on three floors and the mansard roof , as well as six elevators , three of which are for staff .

In 1948 the palace was under the communist regime nationalized , and lived the last son of the spoonbill and died in poverty in one of Mansarddachzimmer.

Over the years the upper floors have been converted into offices, and various shops have been set up on the ground floor. The building was home to the credit insurer Euler Hermes with Banca de schimb Hermes , Hipotecar Kredit Bank , the general directorate of the Romanian railway company Căile Ferate Române , and the Romanian branch of the French Institute for Advanced Studies . The popular café Cafeneaua Bulevard was also located here operated.

Part of the facade facing the Piața Victoriei is still today (as of 2009) marked by bullet holes from the time of the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , which began on the Piața Victoriei.

description

The three-story residential, commercial and apartment building on the Surogat of Siegesplatz has three inner courtyards and three cantilevered bridge corridors, one on top of the other. The front sides are lavishly designed over the entire facade with bay windows, balcony niches and rich figure decorations. On the ground floor of the building is now among other shops, a fast-food restaurant of the McDonald's chain.

  • Statues on the back of the Palais Löffler

Web links

Commons : Palais Löffler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 246 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 des Județ Timiș , 152 - TM-II-aA-06115, in Romanian
  2. ↑ Rumaenien-Info.at ( Memento of 5 April 2009 at the Internet Archive ), Romania Travel Guide
  3. ↑ Qype.com , castle Spoonbill, Timişoara
  4. ↑ Timpolis.ro , Mara Carpencu Pop: Sapte in Piata Victoriei - Palatele din centrul Timisoarei , edition December 29, 2005 - January 4, 2006, in Romanian
  5. ↑ BeyondTheForest.com , Timisoara - "Little Vienna" & the Secession, in English
  6. ^ Martin Eichler, Dan Leopold Ciobotaru, Martin Rill: Temeswar - Timișoara. A pearl of the Banat , Wort + Welt + Bild Verlag, Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810825-6-2 , page 207
  7. ↑ GSserviceNet.de , picture of the McDonald’s branch in the Palais Löffler

Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 12.4 "  N , 21 ° 13 ′ 33.6"  E