Stubenberg Palace

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Stubenberg Palace
Portal and central balcony with atlantic baths as a frame

The Palais Stubenberg-Wildenstein is a former city ​​palace in Graz . It is located on the corner of Tummelplatz and Hans-Sachs-Gasse in the first district of the Inner City . The building is directly connected to the Palais Lengheimb .

history

In the former Neugasse (today's Hans-Sachs-Gasse ) in 1689 the provincial governor Georg von Stubenberg donated a tax-free property, who then had the palace built by the master builder Bartholomäus Ebner. Only two years later the building was sold to Count Michael Weikhart Vetter von der Lilie. His widow count Josef von Wildenstein in 1709, with which the palace was included in the Wildenstein family 's entails. In 1819 the Stubenberg - Wildenstein Palace was sold to the Styrian provincial estates, who set up the "Estates drawing school" in the premises. In addition to this school, the palace also housed a collection of paintings and copperplate engravings, from which the state picture gallery emerged.

Left Atlant, portal detail

In 1893 the palace was sold to the accident insurance institute , which is why the drawing academy and the gallery had to look for another location. In addition to the use of office space, there was also a wine bar and a printing shop in the house. After a bomb attack on November 1, 1944, the east wing at " Tummelplatz " had to be demolished in 1948 and replaced by a replacement building. In the same year the Palais came into the possession of the City of Graz, which set up the city archive in the building from 1970 to 2000. The premises were finally re-let.

Architecture and design

Much of the facade of the three-storey structure was only reconstructed in a very simplified manner when it was rebuilt after the bombing in November 1944. The original facade on the “ Hans-Sachs-Gasse ” side has been preserved. The formerly arched stone portal has two atlantic baths on the left and right that hold the central balcony. It was created in 1710 under the influence of the Vienna atlantic portals. This figural portal framing is unique in Graz.

The staircase of the staircase on the courtyard side, which was built around 1690, is supported by two pillars. The wall niches with the plaster casts of the Roman gods Aphrodite and Hera , as well as the demigod Herakles are much younger and works from the second quarter of the 19th century, in which the "Estates drawing academy" was located in the palace.

literature

  • Walter Brunner: Bombs on Graz . Leykam, Graz 1989, ISBN 3-7011-7201-3 .
  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 88 .
  • Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 72 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brunner: Bombs on Graz. P. 178.
  2. ↑ a b Entry about Palais Stubenberg-Wildenstein on Burgen-Austria
  3. ↑ Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 88.
  4. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 72.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 10.3 "  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 34.2"  E