Savoy women's pencil
The Savoysche Damenstift (also: Savoyensches Damenstift ) is a palace at Johannesgasse 15-17 in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City .
history
The palace was created in 1688 by merging two older houses and came into the possession of Prince Thomas Emanuel of Savoy-Carignan , a nephew of Prince Eugen , in the 18th century . His widow Maria Theresia Antonia, née Princess Liechtenstein, made it the seat of a noble secular women's foundation under the care of the Liechtenstein Majorate. These conditions still exist today, although there are no more noble women living in the palace. The last regent was Countess Karoline Fünfkirchen († July 8, 1980).
The monastery was the retirement home and in 1994 the place of death of the Social Democratic Minister Hertha Firnberg .
description
The current appearance of the three-storey, ten-axis building is determined by the renovation carried out by the builder Joseph Meissl in 1766 . In 1783 the monastery acquired the neighboring house at Johannesgasse 17, further adaptations were made by Andreas Zach . Due to the diversity of the window axes, it can still be seen that the monastery was created from two buildings. The steps of the main staircase in the vestibule and the branched staircase in the courtyard were made of Kaiserstein from Kaisersteinbruch . The facade is characterized by a large lead statue of the Immaculate by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt .
In the picturesque inner courtyard there is the so-called Widow-von-Sarepta-Brunnen , an early classical wall fountain with the figure of the widow of Sarepta, created by Johann Martin Fischer and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt .
literature
- Nina Nemetschke: Lexicon of Viennese art and culture. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-8000-3345-3 .
Web links
- Entry about Savoy's women's pen on Burgen-Austria
- Palais Savoyen-Carignan (Savoy women's monastery). In: Planet Vienna.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 17 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 25 ″ E