Pasqualati house
The Pasqualati House is located in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, on the corner of Mölker Bastei 8 and Schreyvogelgasse 16 in an exposed location on the ramp of the former Vienna city fortifications . In a neighboring apartment to Ludwig van Beethoven's former quarter there is now a museum.
history
The house was built in 1797 by Peter Mollner for the personal physician Maria Theresa Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati and Osterberg by combining two smaller residential buildings into the stately apartment building and adding additional floors. One of the earlier buildings housed a stone sculptor's workshop, while Count Leander Anguissola, imperial chief engineer, and Johann Jakob Marinoni , a court mathematician, lived in the other, both of whom have jointly published a map of Vienna. They were also the first teachers at the Military Engineering Academy, founded in 1718, for which they gave lectures in the house. The composers Florian Gassmann and Antonio Salieri also lived in this previous building in 1770 . Ludwig van Beethoven lived in the current building several times between 1804 and 1815. Some of his most important works were written here, such as the 4th , 5th , 7th and 8th symphonies , the opera Fidelio , or the piano work Für Elise . Bettina Brentano visited Beethoven here during his second stay and described the meeting in her book Goethe's Correspondence with a Child . From 1991 to approx. 2000 the musicological series Vom Pasqualatihaus was published in the house . Since 1947 the Adalbert Stifter Museum has been located in three rooms of the Pasqualati House .
Building description
The building is a block-like corner house in the classical style. At the corner there is a Pasqualatis heraldic cartouche. The rectangular portal with building inscription leads into a driveway and an inner courtyard with a wrought iron lantern and fountain. In the staircase with a spiral staircase made of Kaisersteinbrucher stone there are still original handrails and lattice doors made of wrought iron. The roof truss and cellar vaults have also been preserved from the time they were built. There are remains of the bastion complex in the basement. A plaque commemorates Ludwig van Beethoven.
Beethoven memorial
In an apartment on the 4th floor there is a memorial, designed by Elsa Prochazka in 1997 , in which the portrait of Beethoven by Willibrord Joseph Mähler from 1804/05 and the portrait of Count Andreas Rasumofsky by Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder from 1814 can be seen is. Some objects from Beethoven's possession, several facsimiles and images from the life and work of the composer, as well as two listening stations with Beethoven's music complete the offer. Beethoven's actual apartment is opposite, but as it is rented it cannot be shown. The memorial belongs to the Wien Museum . The builder of the baroque building was Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati und Osterberg, it has existed in its current form since 1798. Pasqualati was a patron of Ludwig van Beethoven , whom he let live in his house for eight years (1804 to 1808 and 1810 to 1814).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '44.8 " N , 16 ° 21' 44.2" E