Palais Lengheimb (Bürgergasse)

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Palais Lengheimb
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The Palais Lengheimb is a former city ​​palace in Graz . It is located on Bürgergasse in the first district of the inner city . A palace of the same name , which belonged to the Lengheimb family, is in Hans-Sachs-Gasse .

history

The Renaissance- style palace was built for Adam von Lengheimb in 1577 and was first mentioned in a document in 1596. The von Lengheimb family (aristocratic family) , who came from Styria after Johann Siebmacher and also branched out in Carniola and Lower Austria , but which, according to Herwig Ebner, is said to come from Carniola, acquired several dominions, such as the Eastern Styrian castles of Kapfenstein and Pertlstein . In 1620 the family was elevated to the baron status and in 1674 to the count.

Counts Andreas and Max Adam von Lengheimb sold the palace in Bürgergasse in 1732 to the Jesuit College, which maintained a seminary in the neighboring buildings. The Jesuit order had the building added. After the abolition of the order in Graz in 1773, the kk Hofkammer took over the palace. In the 19th century there were multiple changes of ownership. From 1927 to 1935 it was owned by the Academic Gymnastics Club. In 1945, after the Second World War , it was taken over by the Styrian provincial government and handed over to the city of Graz, which finally returned it to the gymnastics club. From 1960 to 1963 there was an extensive renovation. Today, large parts of the premises are rented.

Architecture and design

A special feature of the four-storey building with its four wings is a polygonal corner bay on corbels that extends over all the upper floors. A corner curbstone from the time it was built is attached under the bay window. The unadorned facade is structured only through the stone-framed windows. Via the Renaissance portal with two flanking round pillars and iron-studded gate leaves from the 18th century, one reaches the inner courtyard through a groin-vaulted passage. There are arcades supported by Tuscan columns. A stone tablet over a ground floor arcade is dated for the year of construction (1577). In 1996 plastered sgraffiti were uncovered near the arcades. The balcony corridors on the west side were only added later in the 19th century.

literature

  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 85-86 .
  • Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 63 .
  • Johann Evang. Kirnbauer von Erzstätt: The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Text, A – R. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 4. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1909, p. 267.

Web links

Commons : Palais Lengheimb (Bürgergasse)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 86.
  2. ↑ a b Entry about Palais Lengheimb (Bürgergasse) on Burgen-Austria
  3. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 63.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 17 "  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 30.8"  E