Schönburg Palace
The Palais Schönburg (also: Palais Schönburg-Hartenstein and Palais Starhemberg-Schönburg ) is a palace in the 4th district of Wieden at Rainergasse 11.
history
The financial expert Gundaker Thomas Starhemberg had a baroque palace built from 1705 to 1706 on a plot of land owned by the Starhemberg family since 1450 in what was then the suburb of Wieden based on designs by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt .
In 1811 the palace became the property of Joseph Nepomuk Count Keglevich de Buzin , who had it rebuilt and expanded. Around 1841 the Schönburg- Hartstein family acquired the palace and had the rooms - with the exception of the library - redesigned.
In the 1970s, two out of three heirs sold their shares to Conti-Bank . After their bankruptcy, the machine trading entrepreneurs Marian and Danek Gertner took over the palace and caused the remaining Schönburg heiress to resign in 1979 by means of an action for division. After that, they tried for decades to use the property commercially as a hotel by expanding and converting the building in need of renovation. This ultimately failed because of the preservation of monuments and the massive resistance of citizens' initiatives and neighbors against the planned expansion of the side wings. As a result, the building continued to deteriorate.
After a generation change in the owner family, at the beginning of the 21st century the palace was largely restored to its original state and adapted to an "event location". The renovation work, during which the facade and roof were restored and the surrounding park revitalized, lasted from 2007 to 2008 and was financially supported by the Federal Monuments Office and the Vienna Old Town Conservation Fund. The palace or individual rooms and the garden can be rented for events since July 2008.
architecture
The garden palace presents itself as an elongated rectangle, which is extended in its central axis by a transverse oval towards the forecourt. The broad vestibule with a high attic , occupying more than a third of the palace front, was originally opened to the outside area through three large arched gates separated by double pilasters . This has now been closed. In the vestibule, stair arms were built on both sides that lead up to the state hall. The steps of all staircases, including two narrow spiral staircases , are made of the hard Kaisersteinbrucher Kaiserstein .
Sphinx as gatekeeper
Two-armed stairs
Stairs from a different angle
Snail stairs
State Hall
literature
- Bruno Grimschitz : The garden palace Starhemberg-Schönburg in Vienna . In: Bruno Grimschitz: Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt . Herold, Vienna 1959, pp. 57–59.
- Géza Hajós , Eckart Vancsa: The secular buildings of the III., IV. And V district . With introductions about the topographical and art-historical development of the districts. With contributions by Walter Brauneis and Ülküm Fürst. Schroll, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0470-8 , ( Österreichische Kunsttopographie 44, Die Kunstdenkmäler Wiens 2).
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades . LIT-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X , especially p. 66f.
Web links
- palais-schoenburg.at - Website of the Palais Schönburg event management
- Schönburgpalais in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Entry via Palais Schönburg on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 18.8 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 11.3" E