Windisch-Graetz Palace (Renngasse)
The Palais Windisch-Graetz , also known as Palais Geymann-Windisch-Graetz , is a small Viennese city palace in the 1st district of Vienna, Inner City , Renngasse 12, not far from Freyung .
The baroque building was probably built in 1702 and 1703 by the architect Christian Alexander Oedtl for Johann Carl Freiherr von Geymann († 1709), whose ancestors came from Upper Austria. Via the barons of Mannsperg, it came into the possession of the Foundation of the Great Poor and Invalid House in Alservorstadt (today's AKH ) as a hereditary legacy in 1731 and was acquired by Maria Theresa Countess von Windisch-Graetz for 30,000 guilders in 1755. After her death in 1816, her great-nephew Alfred Fürst Windisch-Graetz inherited the palace. It remained in the possession of the Princely Windisch-Graetz family , first by Prince Alfred II , then his son, the Austrian Prime Minister and later President of the manor house Alfred III. who had it renovated by architect Emil Bressler in 1894/95 for his representative duties . His widow Gabriela, b. Auersperg, used her Viennese residence until her death in 1933. In 1935 the Klosterneuburg canon monastery acquired the property from the heirs of Alfred Windisch-Graetz.
In the palace there is a grand staircase with steps and platform plates made of Kaiserstein .
Web links
- Entry via Palais Windisch-Graetz (Renngasse) to Burgen-Austria
- Planet Vienna | Windischgraetz Palace
- Burgenkunde.at | Geymann-Windisch-Graetz Palace
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 46 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 3 ″ E