Nathaniel Rothschild Palace

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Palace of Baron Nathaniel Rothschild on Theresianumgasse in the 4th district in Vienna, garden side

The Palais Nathaniel Rothschild was a city ​​palace in Vienna built from 1872 to 1884 according to the plans of the French architect Jean Girette for Nathaniel Meyer Freiherr von Rothschild (1836-1905) , which also housed the Rothschild art collection. It was badly damaged in the bombing of Vienna in World War II and demolished after the war. It was located at Theresianumgasse 16-18 in Vienna's 4th district of Wieden .

history

Palace of Baron Nathaniel Rothschild on Theresianumgasse in the 4th district in Vienna

Various French architects participated in the planning of the buildings on the Ringstrasse in Vienna. In 1869 some of them were accepted into the Vienna Academy of the Arts, and French architects were also present at the World Exhibition of 1873, among them Jean Girette, a student and collaborator of Charles Garnier , the architect of the Paris Opera . Girette planned the palace for Rothschild and apparently oversaw the execution until 1880. Later plans come in part from the French architect Armand-Louis Bauqué, who ran an architecture office in Vienna with Albert Emilio Pio from Milan.

During the Second World War, the palace was used as a Gestapo prison and was badly damaged in the bombing of Vienna. After 1945 it was returned to the Rothschild family. The latter had the remains of the palace demolished and sold the property to the Vienna Chamber of Labor, which built the Franz-Domes-Heim from 1951–1952 according to plans by Roland Rainer . After its demolition in 1983, the Chamber of Labor's Adolf-Coppel-Bildungszentrum (1985–1989) with Theater Akzent and the Anton-Benya-Park , opened in 1990, were created.

description

The palace was a magnificent building made of sandstone , divided into three parts in the style of the French Renaissance , whose main facade, inspired by the Palace of Versailles , faced the garden. Rothschild only lived in a small apartment, the rest of the palace was furnished with valuable furniture and used as salons and reception rooms in which the art collection was housed.

See also

literature

  • Edgard Haider: Lost Vienna. Noble palaces of days gone by. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1984, ISBN 3-205-07220-0 .

Web links

Commons : Palais Nathaniel Rothschild  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy: Les Rothschild bâtisseurs et mécènes . Flammarion, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-08-012968-6 , pp. 156-161 .
  2. ^ Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades . 3. Edition. LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X , p.  147 ( Online: Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Former Franz Domes apprentice home 4th, Theresianumgasse 16-18. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  4. ↑ a b Felicitas Kunth: The Rothschild'schen painting collections in Vienna . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-205-77306-3 , p. 60-70 ( Online: Google Books ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 32.8 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 32.4"  E