Weisweiler Palace

Part of the former Palais Weisweiler in Salesianergasse 3a

The Palais Weisweiler (correct: Weisweiller ) on the 3rd Vienna district road was one of the last buildings of the type of at Salesianergasse three upper-class city palace (the French model). It was demolished in 1973.

history

In 1892 Marie Freiin von Schnapper bequeathed her Wimsbach Castle in Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting (Upper Austria) to a Weisweiller; it is still owned by the family to this day. At the beginning of the 1920s, the industrialist family, who wrote themselves Weisweiller and was related to a Jewish family of the same name in France, came into the possession of the small palace built in 1891 by Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer , the famous Viennese theater architects, for the von Schnapper family in Salesianergasse 3a. In 1924 the Weisweiller family also bought the neighboring property and, using the old stock, had the architect Theodor Mayer erect a stately building on the entire site, stylistically based on French models, the Hôtel particulier type .

The Palais Weisweiller stood out among the elegant houses in Vienna between the wars with its particularly rich furnishings ( marble cladding, wrought iron, etc.). Under the higher garden was a garage for several automobiles.

The Weisweiller family was expropriated under the Nazi regime in 1938 and emigrated to England. The offices of the city ​​trams were housed in the palace . Whether or when the building was restituted to the Weisweiller family after 1945 has not been researched (Wimsbach Castle was restituted to Moritz Weisweiller). After the war the Palais Weisweiller housed the offices of the nationalized Austrian-Alpine Mining Society .

The real estate agent Franz Machek, as the last owner, tried in vain for several years after they moved out of the palace to find useful uses for the vacant building. In the early 1970s he applied for a demolition permit. In 1973 the demolition was carried out and the construction of the next building began - shortly before the area between Rennweg and Heumarkt (including the Salesianergasse) was declared a protection zone in 1974.

The part on 3a is still preserved and is now under monument protection ( list entry ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} daily newspaper Die Presse , Vienna, April 3, 1973, A new victim of the pickaxe ; the name is written in the legend Weisweiller

literature

• Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien - a look back at five decades . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-462-03759-5 / ISBN 978-3-462-03759-3

Web links

Commons : Palais Schnapper-Weisweiller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palais Schnapper-Weisweiler. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 1 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 52 ″  E