Longo Palace
The Palais Longo is a baroque aristocratic palace in Neumarkt an der Etsch ( South Tyrol , Italy ). The building is listed.
location
The Palais Longo is located on the edge of the village center at Fleimstaler Straße 30–32 ( Italian Via Val di Fiemme ) in Neumarkt.
history
The manor house was built in the 17th century and received its present form in the second quarter of the 18th century. Around 1770, the Baron Longo family acquired the palace and incorporated it into the family's winery together with the Villner Schlössl. At the end of the First World War , South Tyrol fell to the Kingdom of Italy . In October 1922, Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III transferred. the government to the Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini . A year later, Anton Freiherr von Longo-Liebenstein and his son Felix (1888–1961) had to leave Neumarkt in the direction of Klagenfurt by deportation decree . The family was not able to return to the estate in South Tyrol until September 1932.
architecture
The eaves building with a hipped roof was built as a two-story plastered building with a mezzanine floor above a high basement. The seven-axis facade of the house is designed regularly. A two-winged staircase leads to a baroque portal with a striking stone frame and blown gable , which is decorated with two putti and a female bust . Inside there are stucco decorations , painted wallpaper and ceiling paintings that show events from the Old Testament , hunting scenes and representations from Greek mythology . Among them, for example, a depiction of the kidnapping of Oreithyias by Boreas . There are also high reliefs in stucco by Franz Hannibal Bittner and frescoes by Giacomo Antonio Delai . In the ballroom of the house there are a total of eleven ceiling paintings, the largest of which shows the gigantomachy . This hall in its entirety is a testimony to the Rococo in the South Tyrolean Unterland .
The palace also has a spacious park that extends to the forest on the outskirts of Neumarkt.
winery
Since around 1770 the building has been owned by the noble Longo family as part of a winery. In 2015 Anton von Longo-Liebenstein took over the winery from his father Felix. The estate's wine cellar is located in the Palais Longo. Parts of the historic wine cellar have been preserved to this day, but most of them were redesigned in 2015.
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Individual evidence
- ^ Palais Longo in the South Tyrolean Monument Browser. Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, November 8, 2016, accessed on November 21, 2016 .
- ^ The history of the Neumarkt community in South Tyrol , Historical Guide, Neumarkt community
Coordinates: 46 ° 18 ′ 48.4 ″ N , 11 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ E