Löwenfeld Palace
The Löwenfeld Palace , formerly Jaukermühle , is a former factory owner's villa in the Kleinmünchen district of Linz and is a listed building.
history
The first documented mention of the grain mill on the Jaukerbach, which was filled in in 1966, goes back to the beginning of the 18th century. In 1825 Johann Wilhelm Rübsamen acquired the Jaukermühle and had a calico printing plant built next to it . In 1852 the cotton mill owners Löwenfeld & Hofmann, the predecessor of today's Linz Textil , bought the building. In 1881–1882, Ignaz Scheck converted it into a representative residence for the industrial family. Later, the building gradually fell into disrepair, until it was finally completely renovated between 2015 and 2017.
architecture
The oldest surviving wing dates from 1823. The street-side, four-wing representative main building was built in 1881/82 by the Linz master builder Ignaz Scheck in the historicist neo-renaissance style. The representative rooms of the manor house have decorative painted ceilings. The artistically designed staircases are also outstanding, as are the decorative stencil paintings using glue paint technology, which were exposed and restored during the 2015/17 renovation.
Above the entrance portal is a lion's head created by master stonemason Karl Kohn from Vienna with an extended tongue, which he is said to have devised as a subtle form of revenge due to differences with the client Löwenfeld.
Web links
- The former Löwenfeld & Hofmann mansion in Linz , Federal Monuments Office, accessed on November 30, 2017.
- Report on the Palais Löwenfeld , wochenblick.at, accessed on November 30, 2017.
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '7.2 " N , 14 ° 19' 8.8" E