Palais Lengheimb (Hans-Sachs-Gasse)
The Palais Lengheimb is a former city palace in Graz . It is located on Hans-Sachs-Gasse in the first district of the Inner City . A palace of the same name that belonged to the Lengheimb family is in Bürgergasse . The Palais Stubenberg is directly connected to the Palais .
history
At the location of today's palace, a previous building is suspected, which was mentioned as early as 1512. In 1689 there was a basic division in which the inner Austrian regimental councilor Count Bernhard von Rindsmaul was handed over a property tax-free. He commissioned the builder Joachim Carlone with the construction of today's palace. From 1719 to 1803 the house was owned by the Lengheimb family. After a fire in 1719, the building was seriously damaged. Between 1804 and 1813 the palace was owned by Baron Anton von Königsbrunn and finally came into civil ownership, from 1827 to the Seßler family, then to the Reicher family. From 1865, a music institute called Johann Buwa with the Buwasaal of the same name was housed on the second floor , where concerts were held.
After the demolition of the city wall and the bastions , the palace was extended, whereby the original facade design remained unchanged. The workers' accident insurance company was the new owner of the city palace from 1909. On February 19, 1945, the entire corner of the house in which the "Reichsknappschaft" was located was destroyed by a direct hit during a bomb attack. The reconstruction was directed by Alexander Bogner in 1948 and from 1961 various university institutes were housed in the premises. Today there are various shops, especially on the ground floor.
Architecture and design
The building is a three and a half storey block with an L-shaped floor plan. The design is typical of the late Combask Baroque in Styria. The facade shows the separation of the individual floors by strong cornices, Tuscan double pilasters and triangular and segmented window crowns. The rustic arched stone portal has strong baffles, a skylight grille with foliage motifs, a lion's head door knocker made of brass and an acanthus cartouche with the coat of arms of the barons of Königsbrunn.
In the basement and on the ground floor, groin and lancet vaults from around 1690 have been preserved. As a result of the war damage, the original furnishings of the living and state rooms including the stucco ceilings were destroyed. A fragment of a ceiling fresco was removed during restoration in 1948. It is located in the Graz City Museum .
literature
- Walter Brunner : Bombs on Graz . Leykam, Graz 1989, ISBN 3-7011-7201-3 .
- 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. 72 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 86.
- ^ Brunner: Bombs on Graz. P. 308.
- ↑ a b Entry about Graz - Palais Lengheim (Rindsmaul) on Burgen-Austria
- ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 72.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 15 ° 26 ′ 32.8 ″ E