Pollack-Parnau Palace

The Palais Pollack-Parnau was a Ringstrasse palace and was located at Schwarzenbergplatz 5 in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse .

history

The five-storey, monumental, cautiously classical building was erected shortly before 1914 in the outer area of ​​Schwarzenbergplatz for the textile industrialist Bruno Pollack von Parnau based on designs by the architect Ernst von Gotthilf . Stylistically, he already refers to the more conservative architectural trends of the interwar period. The owner of the family lived in the main floor , the rest of the living floors were rented. 1938 fell the building of the linearization , the building occupies a prominent position was after a slight redesign of the facade to the district leadership of the Nazi Party for the third district. In 1944 the palace was badly damaged by an aerial bomb . After 1945 the largely destroyed building was restituted to the owner family , who then sold it. In 1958 an office building of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch group was built in its place , typically with almost twice the number of floors. This building has also been demolished in the meantime, and renewed densification of buildings is to be expected, among other things by moving the main facade towards the space.

literature

• Edgard Haider: Lost Vienna. Noble palaces of days gone by. Böhlau, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-205-07220-0
• Hans Haider: The garage prince's glass residence. Wiener Zeitung, July 25, 2008, accessed on February 5, 2009 (German). 

Web links

• Pollack-Parnau Palace. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 57 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 37"  E