Palais Lamberg (Vienna)
The Palais Lamberg is a palace in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , Wallnerstraße 3. Because it was used for business purposes by Emperor Franz Stephan of Lorraine for a while, it is also known as the Imperial House . It was also used as the Palais Czernin for decades . The palace was originally built in the early Baroque style , with the interior of the property being rebuilt several times.
history
During the 17th century there were still two different houses on the site of the current palace. Both of these were acquired by Land Marshal Ferdinand Maximilian Graf Sprinzenstein around 1668 and converted into today's palace in 1675. The interior of the property in particular was richly furnished. Another renovation took place in 1730 under Carl Joseph Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein, according to plans by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach .
In 1740 the Lamberg family finally parted from their palace. The new owner was Franz I Stephan of Lorraine , the husband of Empress Maria Theresa . At that time, the palace was mainly used for private meetings and financial transactions. The name Kaiserhaus has been in use since that time. Around the middle of the 18th century, the interior was renewed in the Rococo style . In 1765 the imperial family came into the possession of Emperor Joseph II , who sold it to Prince Franz Ulrich Kinsky. Later on, the von und zu Chudenitz family owned the Czernin family , who from around 1800 to 1845 also looked after their picture gallery, which was then moved to Palais Czernin in Josefstadt . Under the counts Buquoy-Longueval, who owned the palace from 1855 to 1911, Friedrich Flohr carried out the last major changes to the interior and its facade.
Today the Palais Lamberg is owned by Donau-Finanz GesmbH & Co. KG and serves as an office building. After the patent office moved out in 2003, the second and third floors of the palace were renovated in cooperation between the Federal Monuments Office and the Austrian Association of Restorers, under the direction of the architecture office DI Harald Mallner. Previously, various insurance companies had their headquarters in the palace. The building now has a somewhat unsuitable loft extension from the 1960s, but most of the magnificent interior has been preserved to this day.
layout
The front side of the palace on Wallnerstrasse dates largely from 1846. Some of the rooms were designed in 1797 by Benedikt Henrici . The ballroom is furnished with stucco putti , gilded vases and a marble fireplace from 1855. In the back of the courtyard there used to be stables.
Master Wolfgang Steinböck provided stone carvings from the Eggenburg sculptural stone , the portal, the step stones for the large main staircase, a spiral staircase , in the inner courtyard the basin of a wall fountain with a Poseidon head spouting the water made of coarse sandstone from Bad Fischau emerged from the hard Kaisersteinbrucher Kaiserstein .
portal
foyer
Stairwell
Courtyard fountain
Web links
- Entry via Palais Lamberg (Kaiserhaus) on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 33 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E