Mesmer Palace

The garden side of the Palais Mesmer 1872

A bird's eye view of the palace with garden between 1769 and 1773

Memorial plaque on the site of the Palais Mesmer

The Palais Mesmer was located in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse, at today's Rasumofskygasse 29.

The likely builder of the palace was Bernhard Heinrich von Germeten . His daughters sold the then probably one-story palace with garden and orangery around 1753 for 9,000 guilders to the von Posch couple. After the death of Ferdinand Konrad von Posch in 1766, the widow, Maria Anna von Posch, married the famous doctor and namesake of the Palais Franz Anton Mesmer on January 10, 1768 , who had the house rebuilt and refurbished. The Palais Mesmer is considered one of two possible locations for the world premiere of the Singspiel Bastien and Bastienne by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1768. The Palais was demolished in 1919.

Individual evidence

↑ District Museum Landstrasse ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Association for the History of the City of Vienna (ed.): Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Volumes 15–18, 1961, pp. 167–169.
^ Pötzl-Malikova, M .: On the relationship of Franz Anton Mesmer - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. A rediscovered bust of the famous magnetizer in: Bundesdenkmalamt Wien and Institute for Art History of the University of Vienna (Ed.): Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Volume XL, 1987, p. 258.
↑ Hans Pemmer: The Palais of Dr. Mesmer on the highway. In: Writings on local history of Vienna. Wiener Schriften, published by the Office for Culture, National Education and School Administration of the City of Vienna, Issue 29 (Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna, 1969) pp. 288–290

Web links

Commons : Palais Mesmer - collection of images, videos and audio files

District Museum Landstrasse
Planet Vienna
A celebration for Franz Anton Mesmer • Report on the unveiling of the memorial plaque for FA MESMER on the building in front of his palace. (PDF) In: parapsychologie.ac.at. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .

48.203163 16.391392Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '11.4 " N , 16 ° 23' 29" E

[1] District Museum Landstrasse ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Association for the History of the City of Vienna (ed.): Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Volumes 15–18, 1961, pp. 167–169.

[3] Pötzl-Malikova, M .: On the relationship of Franz Anton Mesmer - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. A rediscovered bust of the famous magnetizer in: Bundesdenkmalamt Wien and Institute for Art History of the University of Vienna (Ed.): Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Volume XL, 1987, p. 258.

[4] Hans Pemmer: The Palais of Dr. Mesmer on the highway. In: Writings on local history of Vienna. Wiener Schriften, published by the Office for Culture, National Education and School Administration of the City of Vienna, Issue 29 (Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna, 1969) pp. 288–290