Schwab Palace

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Palais Schwab (2011), left Hegelgasse, right Weihburggasse
Memorial plaque at Palais Schwab

The Palais Schwab is a Ringstraßenpalais and rental home at the Weihburggasse 30, corner Hegelgasse, the 1st Viennese district of Inner City . The building is a listed building .

history

In the course of the construction of the Vienna Ringstrasse , the client, the textile entrepreneur Gottlieb Schwab, had a prestigious rental house built in the second building line behind the Parkring at the Wiener Stadtpark , where he himself lived from 1872 to 1875. In 1875 Leopoldine von Liebig bought the house in order to sell it in 1917, the year her husband Johann von Liebig died. Heinrich Schnabel bought the house in 1917; he died in 1936. When Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, the heirs were forced to sell the building to the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und Unemployment Insurance . The building became the administrative seat of the Reich Labor Ministry for Vienna. In 1945 in occupied post-war Austria , state use as the headquarters of the employment offices was continued. On January 31, 1948, the heirs filed an application for restitution of the property. As of December 31, 1948, the Federal Ministry for Asset Protection and the Vienna State Labor Office agreed for the Weihburggasse building with retroactive effect from April 27, 1945. In 1950 the Restitution Commission requested the heirs' lawyer to submit a declaration of consent from the Allied Council . In 1956, the restitution procedure was assigned to the Financial Directorate for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland in accordance with the State Treaty Implementation Act. On June 25, 1957, a settlement was made between the Republic of Austria and the heirs. The heirs waived all claims for 618,000 schillings. In 2003, the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution decided to restore the property. In 2005 the Council of Ministers approved the application for in rem restitution.

architecture

Building exterior

The two-sided corner house with a three-storey corner bay was built in a strictly historical style from 1871 to 1872 according to the plans of the architect Wilhelm Stiassny . The mezzanine floor is a well-preserved Raumenfilade with a wall painting dating from 1873. The facade with four floors above a base shows squat pilasters . On the mezzanine floor, the windows have drilled window frames under horizontal bosses and a console cornice between Tuscan three-quarter columns . The first floor has a parapet balustrade , a triglyphs fries and a Konsolgesims. The 2nd and 3rd floors have gable windows with aedicules with three-quarter columns and parapet balustrade or segmented gables on consoles with meandering friezes and volute consoles in between and a structure of rectangular windows between Tuscan , Ionic and Corinthian pilasters . Sometimes parapet balustrades alternate with smooth parapet with lion masks. On both sides of the corner bay are protruding axles, square-shaped in the building blocks, with entablature as a common roof . The lateral edge portal in Weihburggasse is an Ionic column portal with a round arch with festoons and a lion mask in the frieze with a balcony above with wrought iron grille and above it on the 2nd floor a layered aedicule window.

The simple inner courtyard shows itself with a three- story pawlatsche .

In the course of the general renovation, the attic space was expanded into the attic.

Building interior

The vestibule and the so-called Beletage show remarkable frescoes on fairy tales and paintings with grotesques by the painter Julius Frank and the painter Michael Echter .

  • The vestibule as a two-part room with rich vaults as a two-bay barrel with stucco rosettes and three flat domes with rib crosses with rich grotesque paintings and a stucco rosette in the central ring. The fresco of a spinning woman or green stucco marble can be seen in shield arches . The entablature with a red marbled frieze and console cornice rests on coupled Corinthian pilasters. The double doors have handles with mother-of-pearl inlays .
  • The living room on the first floor
  • The smaller rooms
  • The bay room on the upper floor shows pink lambris and Corinthian pilasters and a stucco ceiling.
  • The hall in the basement as a library or billiard room or Masonic lodge is a fully paneled rectangular room with a niche on the long wall and with wall cupboards made of risalites and mirrored arched windows between Corinthian pilasters and a floral frieze with an ornamented coffered ceiling on consoles. The hall was accessed via a secret staircase.

literature

Web links

Commons : Weihburggasse 30  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 35.5 ″  E