Palais Trautson
The Palais Trautson is a palace in Vienna's 7th district Neubau at Museumstrasse 7. It is the seat of the Austrian Ministry of Justice .
history
The land in the suburb of Sankt Ulrich on which the palace is located belonged to Countess Maria Margareta Trautson from 1657 . One part had a house, the rest were vineyards or undeveloped. In the course of the construction wave after the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna , the Imperial Court Councilor and Chief Chamberlain Johann Leopold Donat Count Trautson (later 1st Prince Trautson ) had a palace built here in 1712, which is one of the most important baroque buildings in Vienna. Its model was the Amsterdam town house . The master builder was Christian Alexander Oedtl ; he built according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach .
The palace was the scene of numerous festivities. Maria Theresa bought it in 1760 for 40,000 guilders and made it available to the Hungarian Guard . This led to some renovations, the garden in front of the building became a riding school, and stables were built instead of the garden wall and the orangery . In 1848 the Hungarian Guard was disbanded and the palace became the seat of the Lower Austrian Provincial Army Command. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise , a new Hungarian Life Guard was established in 1867, with its headquarters in the palace. There were further modifications. Even after the fall of the monarchy (1918), the building was owned by the Hungarian state; it housed the Collegium Hungaricum from 1924 to 1963 . The then People's Republic of Hungary sold the building to the Republic of Austria (as they did not want to finance the renovations imposed by the monument protection) and built a new building in the Eastern Block slab style in the 2nd district of Vienna on Hollandstrasse. The Gardegasse in the 7th district recalls since 1909 to the Hungarian Guard.
In 1961 the Republic of Austria acquired the palace for the administration of justice. Abortion was considered, which led to heated discussions. The more recent additions on Museumstrasse and Lerchenfelder Strasse have been removed; Prefabricated houses for UNIDO were built on the site of the former garden . The part on Neustiftgasse was replaced by an office building.
Today the Federal Ministry of Justice is in the Palais Trautson.
description
The palace was given a richly decorated, three-story facade. Master Johann Georg Haresleben from Kaisersteinbruch received stonemason orders , who used hard Kaiserstein for the portal, balcony and the staircase steps. The imposing staircase leads to the state hall. There are reliefs over many of the windows depicting scenes from ancient legends .
literature
- Elfriede Faber: New building . Pichler, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-065-2
- Dehio Handbook Vienna II. To IX. and XX. District , Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8
- Helmuth Furch : Kaiserstein in 300 Viennese buildings , in communications of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch , No. 59, 2000. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
Web links
- Entry via Palais Trautson on Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 21 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 19 ″ E