Palais Trauttmansdorff (Graz)
The Palais Trauttmansdorff is a former Graz city palace in Bürgergasse, Burggasse and Trauttmansdorffgasse in the Innere Stadt district .
history
In 1525, one of the two houses in Bürgergasse that later became Palais Trauttmansdorff was owned by a Trauttmansdorff woman. The second was finally acquired in 1614 by Sigmund Friedrich von Trauttmansdorff . It was also he who ensured that the two houses were merged into a city palace from 1615 to 1620. After Count Alois Trauttmansdorff bought Palais Herberstein in Burggasse, Palais Trauttmansdorff became the largest city palace in Graz at the time. The facade in the late Renaissance style was baroque around 1720 . After an interior renovation in 1850 by the master builder Georg Lindner, it was subsequently rented out.
A bomb hit in World War II destroyed a wing on November 1, 1944. The portal and the statue of the Madonna, which was placed in a niche and commissioned by Count Maximilian Trauttmansdorff, have been preserved. Today it is located in Dornau near Leobersdorf . After the palace was sold in 1983, the building began to fall into disrepair. After a renovation in 1989, which was commissioned by the owner, the ÖRAG Group, the premises are currently occupied by offices and shops and the Grazer Kunstverein . The Austrian Urania for Styria has had its headquarters and ten classrooms in the eastern wing since 1994, the old building with access from Burggasse.
Architecture and design
The palace (Bürgergasse 5) consists of a three-storey building with a facade structure and several inner courtyards from the end of the 17th century. The south wing with an inner courtyard was replaced by a new building in the course of renovations in 1991 and 1992. In addition to the façade decorated with foliage and ribbon work and the rusticated round arch stone portal, nothing of the historical interior has been preserved.
literature
- Walter Brunner: Bombs on Graz . Leykam, Graz 1989, ISBN 3-7011-7201-3 .
- Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 63 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Brunner: Bombs on Graz. P. 178.
- ↑ Entry about Palais Trauttmansdorff on Burgen-Austria
- ↑ The URANIA introduces itself. In: Austrian Urania for Styria. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Markus Jaroschka: The time of Peter Schall and Markus Jaroschka as directors of Urania . In: Hannes Galter et al. (Ed.): The Urania in Graz - 100 years of education and culture . Leykam, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-7011-8110-0 , pp. 242-244 .
- ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 63.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 15.3 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 33" E