Palais Schönborn (Laudongasse)
The Palais Schönborn is a baroque garden palace in the 8th district of Vienna ( Josefstadt ), at Laudongasse 15-19 and has been home to the Austrian Folklore Museum since 1917 . It is usually called the "Schönborn Garden Palace" to avoid confusion with the Schönborn-Batthyány Palace in the first district.
history
Friedrich Carl von Schönborn , who later became Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, commissioned the Schönborn Garden Palace from the Austrian architect Lukas von Hildebrandt in the suburbs after his appointment as Imperial Vice Chancellor to Vienna . The Schönborn-Batthyány Palace in Renngasse was his place of residence in the city .
Hildebrandt's construction manager was Franz Jänggl. The steps of the artistically designed, two-flight staircase were made of the Kaisersteinbrucher Kaiserstein . In 1714 the palace was completed. The interior was chosen generously, and the palace was soon famous for its collection of paintings and its tulip cultivation . In 1725 Schönborn acquired an adjacent property and had the house and garden expanded. After the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg died, a large part of the furniture and paintings were brought to Renngasse and later sold. The collection included Rembrandt's “ The Blinding of Samsons ”.
From an anonymous copperplate engraving around 1737, one can see that behind the castle there was a narrow, elongated baroque garden, the line of sight of which was closed off by a grotto pavilion , which is said to have served as a model for the wall pavilion of the Dresden Zwinger . In the middle of the upper part of the garden was a comedy parterre, which was decorated with eight figures from the Commedia dell'Arte.
The palace on Laudongasse was subsequently rented from around 1750, and the court architect Canevale lived here, among others . In 1841, Amalia Baroness Pasqualati set up a lovers' theater and a theater school in the Schönborn Palace. At the same time, the garden of the palace was gradually sold and built. In 1862 the palace came to the city of Vienna. An extensive restoration followed, and the remainder of the garden was opened to the public. In 1872 the palace was finally handed over to the newly founded University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences ; After they moved out, the Imperial and Royal Higher Regional Court used the house from 1897. The Austrian Folklore Museum has been located in the palace since 1917 . Part of the former garden of the palace is now the municipal Schönbornpark .
Hall with historical furnishings
Ceiling painting
Roof truss
Mask in the folklore museum
literature
- Martin Kupf: The so-called Dutch gallery of the Schönborn garden palace. Review of the restorations that took place between 1917 and 1999 . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde NS 54, 2000, 4, ISSN 0029-9669 , pp. 494-516.
- Leopold Schmidt : Old components of the Austrian Folklore Museum from the time before it was designed as Schönborn's garden palace . In: The Josefstädter Heimatmuseum 41, 1965, ZDB -ID 331535-6 , pp. 3–7.
- Ulrike Seeger: Marly and Rome in Vienna. On the conception of the Schönborn Garden Palace in Vienna . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 62, 1999, 3, ISSN 0044-2992 , pp. 366–393.
- Helmuth Furch: Kaiserstein in Wiener Bauten, Palais Schönborn , contained in: Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch , Volume 11, No. 59, Dec. 2000, p. 56.
Web links
- Entry via Schönborn Garden Palace on Burgen-Austria
- planet-vienna.com | Schönborn Palace
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 47 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E