Schwarzenberg Palace (Graz)
The Schwarzenberg Palace is a former Graz city palace in Bürgergasse in the Innere Stadt district .
history
Today's Palais Schwarzenberg was built around 1570 and 1580, including two previous buildings. In 1596 it was owned by Hanns Jakob Khisl, Freiherr zum Kaltenbrunn and Gonowitz. The building was sold by Khisl to the Gurk bishop and baron Johann Jakob von Lamberg in 1613 . His successor, Bishop Sebastian von Lodron , sold it to Count Georg Ludwig von Schwarzenberg in 1631 , from whom the palace was named. The new owner had the palace rebuilt and gave the house its appearance that still exists today. In 1775, Prince Ferdinand von Schwarzenberg placed the palace in a family entourage. A garden on the Burggasse side was sold in 1853 and the Fideikommiss was liquidated a year later . The palace became the property of a Dr. Smital over.
In 1964 a restoration took place under the direction of Julius Kastner. At this time, the courtyard arcades, which had been walled up until then, also opened. The premises were eventually rented out, including to today's Graz University of Art , whose Institute for Church Music and Organ and the Center for Organ Research founded by Gunther Rost are located in Palais Schwarzenberg. In 2015 the building was renovated. From 2016, public concerts will take place in the new organ concert hall of the Graz University of Art.
Architecture and design
For a palace, the Schwarzenberg palace has an unusually narrow and elongated floor plan. The building has three floors and has a smooth facade from the construction period. The architect Joseph Hueber is credited with the design of the arched stone portal above which a is rococo - cartridge is with the arms of Schwarzenberg family. This was designed in the style of Johannes Piringer. The wrought iron skylight grille dates from the second quarter of the 17th century.
The portal leads to the renaissance inner courtyard with arches, the arches of which are supported by Tuscan columns . The second inner courtyard can be reached through a late Gothic gate frame from the end of the 15th century. There is also a rear building with two floors. On the first floor of the roadside nearby tract a tile stove (around 1810/1820) and the second floor of 1964 was foliage - and Bandelwerk -Stuckplafond exposed from around the 1730th
See also
- Palais Schwarzenberg for other buildings of the same name by the Schwarzenberg family
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry about Palais Schwarzenberg (Graz) on Burgen-Austria
literature
- Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 63 .
- Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 87-88 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 15 ° 26 ′ 31.9 ″ E