Schaezler Palace

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Front view of the Schaezlerpalais
Section of the more than 100 meter long building facade in Katharinengasse.
Ballroom

The Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg is home to municipal and state art collections . It is located at the Herkulesbrunnen and was formerly the city palace of the banker Benedikt Adam Freiherr von Liebert, Edler von Liebenhofen . His to Maximilianstrasse oriented building facade is substantially m m 19 narrower than the extending at the front of house Katharinengasse along 107th

history

A building was mentioned here as early as 1346. In 1499 a new building with a bay window and loggia was built , commissioned by the Imperial Councilor Philipp Adler . The later Emperor Maximilian I took quarters in this house several times. Adler's daughter Anna married Franz Welser and gave birth to their daughter Philippine Welser . The house where she was born gradually became the property of the local Welser , Rehlingen , Sulzer and Stetten families .

In 1764 the banker Benedikt Adam Liebert bought the building from David von Stetten. The Lieberts came to Augsburg in 1733 and made fortunes in the silver trade . In 1763 Johann Adam Liebert, the father Benedikt Adams, was elevated to the hereditary imperial nobility and the Augsburg patriciate as "Edler von Liebenhofen". Appropriate accommodation was now required. The house bought was replaced by a new building in 1765. This rococo palace was built according to plans by the Munich court architect Karl Albert von Lespilliez . The construction work lasted four and a half years.

The interiors turned out to be particularly splendid. The glamorous inauguration took place on April 28, 1770. The “star guest” was 14-year-old Marie Antoinette , who was on her bridal trip to Versailles and made a stopover in Augsburg. In the two-storey ballroom the French Dauphin and later King Louis XVI danced . promised youngest daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, according to legend, a pair of red shoes.

The richly carved wall paneling of the hall comes from Placidus Verhelst . Franz Xaver Feichtmayr the Elder J. was responsible for the lavish stucco . The ceiling painting with the motif "Mercury and world trade" was designed in 1767 by Gregorio Guglielmi . The painter also adorned the stairwell of the palace .

In 1808 King Maximilian I Joseph attended a festive ball in the Liebert Palace on the occasion of a transit to Munich. From time to time Liebert also opened his hall for public concerts.

Liebert's daughter Marianna Barbara married the entrepreneur Johann Lorenz Schaezler from Ansbach . He was raised to baron in 1821 and acquired all the property shares in the property from his wife's relatives. The city palace was then lived in and maintained for four generations by the von Schaezler family from Augsburg . He survived the Second World War without major damage. On October 4, 1958, Wolfgang Freiherr von Schaezler donated the building to the city of Augsburg on condition that it never be sold and that it should only be used for cultural purposes.

The municipal art collections have been located there since 1951 (initially on a rental basis). The State Gallery, housed in the adjoining former Katharinenkirche, can be reached via the Schaezlerpalais.

After extensive renovation work, the palace reopened on February 4, 2006 (renovation began in early 2004).

use

literature

  • Björn R. Kommer: The Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg . Berlin / Augsburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-422-06437-9
  • Gregor Nagler: "There are some among them who would stand out in Rome and Genoa". Augsburg town houses in the 18th century . In: Georg Haindl (ed.): The art of living. An 18th century Augsburg adhesive album . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-07040-0 , p. 30 ff.
  • Christof Trepesch: The Schaezlerpalais and the German Baroque Gallery . In: Helmut Gier (Ed.): Ein Augsbuch . Volume 7. Augsburg 2006.
  • Christof Trepesch: From the repraesentatio to the landscape. The two Schaezler city gardens in Augsburg in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . In: Lorenz Dittmann, Christoph Wagner, Dethard von Winterfeld (Hrsg.): Languages ​​of Art . Festschrift for Klaus Güthlein on his 65th birthday. Worms 2007, pp. 187-198.
  • Ulrich Heiß: Above all doors. The over-portals of the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg . (Ed.) Altaugsburggesellschaft in cooperation with the art collections and museums Augsburg. Augsburg 2015, Brochure (PDF)

Web links

Commons : Schaezlerpalais  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The shoes of the Habsburg highest princesses were not built to be particularly stable, as princesses did not have to travel long and arduous journeys or work in them. One of the old court rules was also to pass on or give away worn clothing (to the needy) after one use. Imperial shoe . one day . Brigitte Hamann : Elisabeth. Reluctant Empress . 3. Edition. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-492-22990-5 , p. 77.
  2. ^ Augsburgische Ordinari Postzeitung , Nro. 268, Nov. 8th Anno 1808, p. 2, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 384-sustba000042-1172-4

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '54 "  N , 10 ° 53' 57"  E