Palais Vrints zu Falkenstein

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Palais Vrints zu Falkenstein

The Palais Vrints to Falkenstein (also Palais Falkenstein called) is located on the Argentinierstraße 14 in the 4th Vienna district , Wieden , was the seat of the family Vrints built, serving since 1921 as the seat of the Greek Embassy.

history

In 1850, Maximilian (Reichs-) Freiherr Vrints von Treuenfeld (1802-1896), kkao envoy and plenipotentiary minister at the royal Belgian court in Brussels , acquired the rule of Poysbrunn - Falkenstein by marriage . On July 5, 1860 it rose Emperor Franz Joseph I with the title to Falkenstein in the Austrian title of count to Count Maximilian Vrints of good field and Falkenstein .

1887-89 he had Ludwig Richter and Alois Schumacher build and equip the Palais Vrints in Falkenstein . In 1905 the palace passed to the von Redlich family, and in 1921 to the Greek state . The Greek Embassy in Austria has been located here since then . Marie Bonaparte stayed at the Greek embassy in 1938 and prepared from there Sigmund Freud's escape from Vienna.

architecture

The architects Ludwig Richter and Alois Schumacher chose Haussteine von St. Margarethen in Burgenland and Kaisersteinbruch for the Palais built in 1887–89 . The facade is characterized by classicist three-quarter columns , elevated by falcons, the heraldic birds of Falkenstein . Of the three female statues above it, the middle one depicts the goddess of victory Nike .

In 1992–93 structural details on the facade were reconstructed and the baths were refurbished based on historical models; The work was supervised by Dimitris Manikas .

The Palais Vrints zu Falkenstein is one of the most splendid and refined interior designs of Viennese baroque historicism .

Web links

Commons : Palais Vrints zu Falkenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Nina Nemetschke, Georg J. Kugler: Lexicon of Viennese art and culture . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-8000-3345-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ † Count Maximilian Vrints. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 11423/1896, June 12, 1896, p. 6, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  2. ^ Vrints of Treuenfeld, barons and counts . In: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 9: Steinhaus - Zwierlein . Voigt, Leipzig 1870, p. 421 ff. - Text online .
  3. ^ Eva Gesine Baur : Freud's Vienna. A search for clues . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57065-0 , p. 197.
  4. ↑ Dimitris Manikas: Contributions to Architecture 1968-2006 . Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77470-9 , p. 84
  5. ↑ Schumacher, Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 358.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 48 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 19 ″  E