Palais Welsersheimb

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Palais Welsersheimb
portal

The Palais Welsersheimb is a baroque Graz city ​​palace on the corner of Hans-Sachs-Gasse and Am Eisernen Tor in the Inner City district . Today in the premises u. a. housed the Moser bookstore.

history

The war paymaster, Count Sigmund von Stubenberg , commissioned the building of the palace, which was built from 1689 to 1694 according to plans by Joachim Carlone . The property along which the former city wall ran was left to him by the Styrian estates. After the death of Count Wolfgang von Stubenberg, the palace was bought by Count Josef von Welserheimb, who gave the building his name. The house, parts of which were rented, remained in the possession of the descendants of Count Welsersheimb until 1956. After the demolition of the city fortifications of Graz, the family bought the adjacent landscape bastion and had a terrace garden built. Around 1812 Louis Bonaparte , a brother of Napoleon , lived in the Palais Welsersheimb. In 1861 the building was enlarged and a carriage shed with the associated stables was created.

The palace's tenants were the Bohemian Union Bank from 1911, and the Reif restaurant from 1924 to 1957. After the east wing was partially destroyed by aerial bombs in World War II , the Humanic shoe factory bought the palace in 1956, but only three years later sold it to the Österreichische Länderbank . The restoration of the damaged east wing began under this owner. Most of the palace has been used by the Moser bookstore since spring 2005.

Architecture and design

The Palais Welsersheimb is a four-storey building with a U-shaped floor plan. The facade design of the representative palace building was under the influence of Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi . The large portal was built by master stonemason Bernhard Leykhauff and dates from the time the palace was built. In addition to the stucco facade, the frescoes in the vestibules with various representations from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the staircase to the left of the gate entrance with its Tuscan, Ionic and Corinthian pillars and balustrades are worth seeing .

literature

  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 89 .
  • Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 72-73 .

Web links

Commons : Palais Welsersheimb, Graz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 89.
  2. ↑ Moser in Graz moves and enlarges (September 10, 2004)
  3. ↑ a b Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 72.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 8 ″  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 30.3 ″  E