Palais du Gouverneur militaire de Strasbourg
The Palais du Gouverneur militaire de Strasbourg (German Palais des Military Governors of Strasbourg ), also Hôtel des Deux-Ponts (German Zweibrücker Hof ), is a city palace between Place Broglie and Rue Brûlée in Strasbourg . It has been under monument protection as Monument historique since 1921 .
history
In 1743 the paymaster of the army François-Marie Gayot and his brother Félix-Anne Gayot de Belombre bought a small palace. Together they commissioned the construction of a new hotel, which was built in 1754/55 according to plans by Joseph Massol in the late Régence style. François-Marie Gayot was appointed royal praetor in 1761. When he was appointed general of the royal army in 1770, he moved to Paris. In 1771 the palace was sold to Maximilian von Zweibrücken , who was a colonel in the Corps d'Alsace of the French army and stayed in Strasbourg. His son Ludwig I , later King of Bavaria , was born in the palace in 1786. Maximilian had the building rebuilt and expanded by the architect Georges Michel Muller .
After the French Revolution , the building was confiscated in 1791 and then served as the headquarters of the responsible military commander until 1870. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71, the military governor had his seat here until 1918. The building complex is still used for military purposes and is not open to the public.
architecture
On the Rue Brûlée, the two-storey building complex made of red sandstone forms a three-wing complex that surrounds a courtyard. The courtyard is protected from the street by a powerful portal that is concave in the center. The portal itself is designed in a neoclassical style. Two pilasters support an entablature with a triangular gable. The main complex has a right-angled side wing facing Place Broglie, which frames the 1,800 m² garden on one side.
The main building with a mansard hipped roof has eleven high window axes with segmental arches on the garden side. The outer axes are designed as round arches. The three central axes sit in a three-storey central projectile with an attic storey . The building has only seven axes towards the courtyard, but its design is aligned with the garden side. Two short wings adjoin the main building, which have been supplemented by two lower side wings. The upper floor is designed here as a lower attic floor. The side wing facing the garden has rounded building edges and a cantilevered balcony in the center of the upper floor on consoles with volutes and a wrought iron railing. On the ground floor there is a cast iron plaque for Maximilian von Zweibrücken, who later became King of Bavaria. On the garden side, the plastered building with sandstone decorations has a risalite with a balcony.
The central vestibule in neoclassical style is entered via the central projections of the main building . The open hall on the ground floor is dominated by Tuscan columns with yellow stucco marble decoration. These are supported by the galleries on the first floor, which are entered via the two side staircases with wrought iron railings. The three-part ceiling is supported by Ionic columns and decorated with ceiling paintings. They were created by Joseph Melling between 1780 and 1785 and show a scene of Mount Olympus with its gods. The French architect Pierre Patte is believed to be the builder of the hall .
literature
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, pp. 487-489
Web links
- The Hôtel des Deux-Ponts in the archi-wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085054 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Toursel-Harster et al. (1995), p. 489
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 6 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 7 ″ E