Palm House (Vienna)
The Palmenhaus (also: Glashaus ) is a building in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City . It is located on the edge of the Burggarten near the Albertina and the State Opera . It is 128 meters long and has a floor area of around 2,050 m².
history
The original, classicist greenhouse was built from 1823 to 1826 according to plans by Ludwig von Remy and was architecturally based on the orangery in Schönbrunn . The back wall of the building was part of what was then the Vienna city wall . After the greenhouse had been demolished around the turn of the century, a new building, influenced by Art Nouveau , was built in 1902–1906 based on designs by the court architect Friedrich Ohmann . The decorations on the central wing (vases, female figures with wreaths, boys) were made by Josef Václav Myslbek .
From 1919 to 1938, the Palm House was the seat and exhibition space of the Kunstgemeinschaft , an association of visual artists.
In 1988 the building was closed for security reasons, and from 1996 to 1998 a general renovation costing around 13 million euros took place. In 1998 the palm house could finally be reopened. The middle part is used by a catering establishment, the left wing houses the butterfly house , the right wing is used by the Austrian Federal Gardens as a greenhouse.
See also
Web links
- The palm house on the website of the Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth
Individual evidence
- ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Art community. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 638 ( digitized version ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 18 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 1 ″ E