Villa Toscana (Gmunden)
The Villa Toscana in Gmunden am Traunsee in Upper Austria is a castle villa built in the 19th century . Together with the Small Villa Toscana and the Toscanapark, it forms an important building ensemble.
The property is located on the peninsula next to the Landschloss Ort and what is now the Toscana Congress center .
history
Around Gmunden an upscale residential area developed as early as the middle of the 19th century and then summer resort .
In 1866, the Habsburg grand ducal family of Toscana spent the summer on the Traunsee for the first time, and stayed in Altmünster, in 1868 they were likely to have lived in the house of the Imperial and Royal engineer-captain Freiherr Christoph von Pittel (today's Kleine Villa). In this year, Leopold II of Austria-Tuscany († 1870), who had abdicated as Grand Duke of Tuscany and left Florence in 1859 , and his wife, Maria Antonie of Naples-Sicily , and who at the time were living in the Bohemian Brandeis Castle , began Reasons to buy on the peninsula. In the course of the 1870s, the family built a summer residence here.
In 1912 or 1913, the daughter of the entrepreneur Karl Wittgenstein , Margaret Anna Maria Stonborough-Wittgenstein , bought the castle villa and the huge grounds after his death. She was married to the American chemist Jerome Stonborough since 1904. Both moved to America as Americans in 1917. After the First World War, they had the villa remodeled by the architect Rudolf Perco . 1933 Jerome Stonborough committed in Gmunden suicide . In 1958 she died too. In 1975 the heirs sold the castle villa and large parts of the property to the Republic of Austria and moved to the Kleine Villa Toscana. In 1994 this property was also sold to the city of Gmunden, which was later expanded into an architecturally unsuccessful congress center, with the garden front and east wing of the villa being preserved.
Villa Toscana
The building was erected between 1870 and 1877 in the middle of the large park as the prince domicile of the widowed Grand Duchess of Tuscany Maria Antonie of Naples-Sicily. The actual building planner was the youngest of her ten children, Johann Salvator .
The villa is designed in the ancient Greek style of a historicist post- classicism .
Today it is used by Toscana Congress as a location for weddings and other events.
Small Villa Toscana
The two-storey Biedermeier building was erected in 1849 by Christoph von Pittel and bought by the Habsburg-Toscana family after his death in 1870.
There are two simple houses connected by a central wing at ground level. In 2001 the small villa was restored. The coloring with white areas and red window sashes corresponds to the original condition.
The Thomas Bernhard archive was set up here until December 2014 and moved to Vienna. The further use is unclear.
Tuscany Park
The quite formal designed 88,000 m² landscaped garden is particularly characterized by a beautiful old population of trees.
In 1999 an Upper Austrian horticultural show took place in the park of Villa Toscana .
Since January 1, 2000, the park in the landscape style of the late 19th / early 20th century has been protected by the amended Federal Monuments Act, as it is one of the most important historical parks in Austria ( No. 25 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 DMSG ). The congress center had previously been built on a section and a controversial hotel project was being planned.
literature
- Toscana Castle near Gmunden. : The architect , born in 1895, p. 20 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- Entry about Villa Toscana (Gmunden) on Burgen-Austria
- View of the Villa Toscana , traunsee-touristik.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Toscanapark in Gmunden. ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. doschau.com, accessed November 15, 2015.
- ↑ Getting married at Villa Toscana. congress-gmunden.at, accessed November 15, 2015.
- ↑ Federal Minister for Education, Science and Culture; Federal Chancellery: Culture Report 2001, Chapter Federal Monuments Office: State Conservates: Upper Austria: Gmunden, Kleine Villa Toskana , p. 150, Col. 2 ( whole chapter Federal Monuments Office , pdf ( memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatic used and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , kunstkultur.bka.gv.at, p. 10 there; website for the cultural report ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).
- ^ Out of the Thomas Bernhard Archive. ooe.orf.at, February 5, 2015.
- ^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 2 Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-99352-0 , Villa Toscana , p. 134 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '32.4 " N , 13 ° 47' 18.9" E