Palais Lloyd

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The Palais Lloyd, 2009
The Palais Lloyd at night, 2006
The building shortly after its construction, still in Hungarian times

The Palais Lloyd ( Romanian Palatul Lloyd ), also Schloss Lloyd or Lloyd-Palast , is a listed three-story building on Piața Victoriei in the western Romanian city ​​of Timișoara . Today it is the seat of the rectorate of the Timișoara Polytechnic University .

history

The building was built between 1910 and 1912 according to plans by Lipót Baumhorn in an eclectic style with elements of Baroque and Art Nouveau ( Vienna Secession ). On the first floor was the seat of Lloyd's of London with a trading exchange for agricultural products.

The second and third floors were used as apartments. The commander-in-chief of the German troops in this area, Field Marshal August von Mackensen , had his seat here in 1915 and lived on the second floor of the building.

Café Wien established itself on the ground floor , at the time a popular meeting place for writers, journalists and, in some cases, shady businessmen. The frenzied reporter Egon Erwin Kisch was one of the company's customers. After the First World War , it was renamed Café Lloyd . As part of the Aryanization of Jewish property 1940/1941 the café came into the possession of Hans Weresch and Joseph Henz , and became a meeting place for the NS - smart set .

As a result of the nationalization in 1948 , Café Wien was nationalized and was named one after the other “23. August ”,“ Ana Lugojana ”and“ Timișoara ”. After an extensive renovation in the 1980s, it was expanded into a luxury restaurant and since then has been the pride of Timisoara gastronomy under the name “Bulevard” together with the “Palace” restaurant in the Palais Dauerbach .

In 2000, the restaurant on the ground floor was expanded into a restaurant at a cost of around 500,000 German marks . Parts of the Art Nouveau furnishings such as the high lime green stucco ceilings , old candelabra and mirror columns have been preserved.

Trivia

Based on the Lloyd-Palast, the boulevard on Piața Victoriei is also called Lloyd -zeile in the German population .

Web links

Commons : Palais Lloyd  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • BBW.ro , Bucarest Business Week online, Tim Judy: Lloyd , February 19, 2001, in English
  • Qype.com , Schloss Lloyd, Timișoara
  • WelcomeToRomania.ro , pictures from and from the Lloyd Palace, in Romanian

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 240 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 des Județ Timiș , 152 - TM-II-aA-06115, in Romanian
  2. ↑ a b Rumaenien-erleben.de ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Timișoara (Temeswar)
  3. ^ Hans Wolfram Hockl : Offene Karten: Documents on the history of the Germans in Romania, 1930-1980, Volume 76 of Donauschwäbische Contributions . H. Hockl, 1980, p. 121 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Popa : The hushed up dimension. Portraits of Romanian German Nazi apparatchiks - Hans Weresch, true to the Catholic faith?
  5. ↑ banatulazi.ro , Titus Bălan: "A Timisoara restaurant, in operation for 104 years"
  6. ^ Hans-Heinrich Rieser: Timisoara: geographical description of the Banat capital . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-515-08288-4 , pp. 152 .

Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 13.4 ″  N , 21 ° 13 ′ 30.3 ″  E