Palais Strudelhof
The Palais Strudelhof is a city palace in the 9th district of Vienna , named after the builder of the predecessor building of today's Palais, Peter Strudel .
The Strudelhof was built in 1690 on the back of the Schottenpoint by order of the imperial court and chamber painter Peter von Strudel. Strudel had bought property from the former imperial hatchery foreman Roman Bernhard Tschagon and his wife Maria Polyxena for the construction. Peter von Strudel became Reichshofrat and director of the art academy in 1701 and died in 1714.
Since 1713 the Strudelhof was used as a plague hospital and included in the Kontumaz Rayon . In 1718 it came to a gentleman named Bonmartini, in 1734 to Count Leopold Kuefstein and after his death in 1759 it was bought by the management of the Spanish Hospital by auction. After several changes of ownership, the house was demolished in 1795 and 1873. Towards the end of the 18th century a neoclassical palace was built, which still exists today and kept the name Palais Strudelhof. (1090 Vienna, Strudlhofgasse 10). Next to it is the Strudlhofstiege , which became widely known through Heimito von Doderer's novel “ Die Strudlhofstiege ” . From 1784 to 1788 these were newly builtFoundling house and a poor institution housed here. Finally, in 1795, the property was divided. The gardens were incorporated into the kk orphanage. Part of the Strudelhof was used as an apartment building, the other parts including the house chapel, consecrated in 1691 in honor of the Apostles Peter and Paul, were demolished to make way for new buildings. A dead end street, embellished in 1802 by planting a chestnut avenue, was named Strudelhofgasse.
Duke Philipp von Württemberg (1838–1917) and his wife Marie Therese (1845–1928), a daughter of Archduke Albrecht , bought the Strudelhof as a Viennese city palace. They had sold the large palace on Kärntner Ring , which was opened as the Hotel Imperial in time for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . In addition to the Strudelhof as a city residence, the noble couple also owned a villa in Altmünster on Lake Traunsee. When the eldest son of the ducal couple, Duke Albrecht (1865–1939), became the designated heir to the throne in the Kingdom of Württemberg, Duke Philipp and Duchess Maria Theresia moved to Stuttgart. In 1906 they sold the Strudelhof to the Counselor in St. Petersburg and later Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Graf Berchtold .
In 1914, the ultimatum to Serbia that triggered World War I was signed in the palace , and in 1970 the disarmament talks between the USSR and the USA took place in it ( SALT I ). Was converted to it in 1999 to today's conference palace, it was considered Embassy of Qatar used.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Strudelhof in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 25.5 ″ E