Waldburg-Wolfegg Palace
| Waldburg-Wolfegg Palace | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Wolfegg Palace | |
| Creation time : | 1688-90 | |
| Place: | Bregenz | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 30 '2 " N , 9 ° 44' 46" E | |
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The Palais Waldburg-Wolfegg was a residence on Kirchstrasse in Bregenz . Today the Vorarlberg State Archives are housed in two parts. The building, including an annex that was added later and did not belong to the original palace, is a listed building .
history
The former aristocratic residence is the older wing on the mountain side and was built between 1688 and 1690 by the Bregenz mayor Johann Mathias Christoph von Bildstein. The Vorarlberg baroque master builder Johann Georg Kuen comes into question as the architect . In 1732, Count Ferdinand Ludwig zu Wolfegg, Freiherr auf Waldburg in Württemberg, acquired the residence and had some modifications made. The family later rented the living quarters in the house to senior state officials. The winery was leased to wine merchants and landlords. The residents included the senior official Franz Xaver von Harrant zu Melans (1759), the imperial bailiff for Vorarlberg Count Franz von Seeau (from 1778) and then the district and state commissioner during the Bavarian occupation Franz Vintler zu Platsch und Runggelstein .
In 1850 the first governor of Vorarlberg, Sebastian Ritter von Froschauer, lived in this house. In 1901 the State Committee bought the palace and had the rear of it significantly enlarged. After that it was inhabited by Governor Otto Ender . In 1931/32, the architect Willibald Braun created an extension in exposed concrete as archive storage for the Vorarlberg State Archive, which has been housed in the building since autumn 1920.
architecture
Behind a front garden with the high gable front on the street side lies the mighty, three-storey rectangular building with a gable roof. In the steep gable there are two storeys, the upper part of the gable triangle is decorated with three ox eyes . The street front has five two-part windows with green shutters on the two upper floors, the windows and doors on the ground floor are secured by plug-in grilles. The representative portal has Tuscan columns and a round arch. The side fronts, on the other hand, are unadorned. The corridors and the staircase are cross-vaulted, the ceilings of the living rooms and offices are fitted with stucco moldings.
Web links
- Entry via Bregenz - Palais Wolfegg on Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : Country house in Kirchstrasse . In: V-Dialog. Magazine for employees of the Vorarlberg regional administration . No. 41 , December 2017 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).