Lotzbeck Palace
The Palais Lotzbeck was a city palace in Munich . It was created at the end of the 19th century by converting the former Palais Asbeck , which was built at the beginning of the 19th century.
history
First construction of Palais Asbeck
The original palace, named after its builder Franz Wilhelm Freiherr von Asbeck , is considered the “first free-standing private house in Munich”. Karl von Fischer planned it at number 13 Barer Strasse. West of the residence , on the way to the new Nymphenburg summer palace , a garden city was to be built; the palace was planned as a model house .
The cavalier houses on the semicircular round palace in Nymphenburg corresponded to the plans of the young building councilor Fischer on Brienner Strasse, which at that time was still called Königsstrasse . The architect and academy professor dimensioned the new building in “Bavarian work shoes” because the Napoleonic metric system had not yet been introduced in the Kingdom of Bavaria . The proportions were comparable to those of the late baroque Fasanerie restaurant in Hartmannshofen . The shape of the rectangular courtyard that opened at the back was related to the two flank buildings on the roundabout.
The owner of the two-storey house with the mighty hipped roof over the seven window axes was the “Board of Directors of the Tax and Domains Section”, Finance President Baron Franz Wilhelm von Asbeck: “During his eight-year stay in Munich, he fired the building spirit with many beautiful samples of his good taste and his building knowledge, which he applied to the external forms as well as to the interior furnishings of several of the buildings he had newly listed. "
The idea of flanking a recessed main house with two outbuildings is likely to go back to Villa Thiene in Palladio's work on architecture. Fischer had returned from a trip to Italy in the winter of 1809.
The drawings for the main facade, bathing temple, stable building with coachman's room, the views of "the garden salon and the two flower houses" are preserved in the architecture collection of the Technical University of Munich . The design was approved by King Max I Joseph on July 5, 1809. The main entrance, adorned with a cornice and two volutes, was oriented towards a fountain in the middle of the circular square named after Queen Caroline . The obelisk was not erected there until 1833 . The two outbuildings that still exist today were placed in front of the edging: a pavilion for the servants with rooms for the coach and the stable on Barer Straße and a small salon open to the south on Brienner Straße. In the garden behind the suburban villa stood a bathhouse modeled on the Pantheon .
The cavalry generals von Hompesch in 1825 and Waldbott-Bassenheim followed as homeowners . Ferdinand Freiherr von Lotzbeck acquired the property from the French ambassador Paul Baron von Bourgoin.
Conversion to Palais Lotzbeck
In the spring of 1896, the architect Eugen Behles planned to add a third floor with a historic cladding for the old palace and to redesign it in the neo-baroque style. In place of the five levels achievable input entered spruce with four columns portico including driveway, which allowed befitting the carriage two or four horses to roll over and protected to enter the house. A glazed winter garden was created at the rear . The building inspection by the royal local building commission took place on May 10, 1898.
According to the Munich city address book , Baron Ferdinand von Lotzbeck and his wife Elise, landowners in Aeschach, Baron Eugen von Lotzbeck , Baron Karl von Lotzbeck and Baron Vibeke Maria von Lotzbeck lived here in 1931 .
In 1941, the property of the National Socialist German Workers' Party housed the Reich Treasurer , the Telecommunications Office, the bookbinding and the printing works of the Reich leadership. The building was damaged by an air raid in 1944 but was not demolished until 1955. Before that, it was considered to repair the deficiencies and to accommodate the Bavarian Academy of Sciences here.
In 1957 the America House was completed on the cleared property .
Individual evidence
- ^ Asbeck-Palais - entry in the online database burgdaten.de (private website of Jürgen Reinke)
- ↑ Former Adjoining building - Asbeck- (Lotzbeck-) Palais (see No. 3), later Lotzbeck-Galerie on the homepage of the Munich city portal (Gerhard Willhalm)
- ↑ Oswald Hederer, Karl von Fischer: Life and Work. Munich 1960, p. 60
- ↑ Joachim Heinrich Jäck: Most important moments in life of all royal Bavarian civil and military servants of this century. Augsburg 1818 ( online in the digital archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de))
- ↑ Collection: Fischer, Carl von on the website of the Technical University of Munich (mediatum.ub.tum.de)
- ^ Carl von Fischer: Exhibition in the Neue Pinakothek from December 1, 1982 to February 27, 1983. P. 108
- ↑ City Archives Munich, Local Building Commission 4887, Karolinenplatz 3, archival signature: DE-1992-LBK-04887
- ↑ Münchner Stadtadreßbuch, Munich 1931, p. 94
- ↑ Munich city directory. Munich 1941, p. 100
- ^ Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: War fates of German architecture, losses - damage - reconstruction. Vol. 2, Neumünster 1988, p. 1407
- ↑ Ellen Latzin: A House for the Academy. Akademie Aktuell, journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Munich 2009, p. 70 ( online PDF file)