Palais Niederösterreich

The Palais Lower Austria is a building in Vienna. It is located in the city center, Herrngasse 13

Importance

Its name comes by renaming the Lower Austrian country house in September 2005.

Before St. Pölten to the capital of Lower Austria was, here was the parliament of this country, and before that it was the seat of his estates. Here the Erbhuldigungen the Austrian archdukes took place and it is also a place for important events in Austrian history.

The are owned by the province of Lower Austria Lower Austria palace is now used as a kind of "message" of the country in the federal capital.

History

Architectural History

The formerly Liechtensteinsche house was purchased in 1513 from the stands to be as political representatives in the vicinity of the Prince. The building was transformed into many sections and expanded by later additions and increases. The Estates bought the stones themselves, inter alia, Castle Schleinitzer stone, now called Zogelsdorfer stone, and for the stairs to the council office increased scale of hard stain from Leythaberg so hard Kaiserstein from Kaisersteinbruch said Hans Saphoy wrote in a statement. These stages present themselves today as built "yesterday". He cupped around 1570 give a great courtroom. From the Renaissance period, the country house chapel, the Gothic room and a portal are obtained. This portico of 1571 consists of a Ädikulaaufsatz in relief, on two knights with Archduke hats and five eagle coat of arms or shield of the coat of arms union of old and Neuösterreich. From an antique-style head sculpture in the pediment and side female figures with cornucopias. In red Adnet marble, the year 1571 was etched.

The boardroom was later adapted baroque, among other things, in 1710 with a fresco by Antonio Beduzzi, which is the largest contiguous ceiling paintings in Austria. It shows "Austria", which is pending, before the glorified Divine Providence. The painting is made with Flussallegorien ( Sebethos, Danube, Po, Rhine, Save, Tajo, Elbe River, the Rio de la Plata) performing, illusionist stucco frame surrounded vault frescoes decorated. This new stucco marble decor, and wall panels created in 1710 Balthasar Haggenmüller. Also baroque is also the judicial throne in the great hall, the Claude Le Fort du Plessy is attributed. Knight's Hall, Mr. Hall and Prälatensaal were designed by the architect of the Cathedral Leopold Ernst 1845/46.

Due to the many conversions and connecting structures with neighboring houses -down to the building in the early 19th century made ​​a very uneven impression. The last reconstruction was aimed therefore: to give the building while retaining the older buildings a unified facade, which was 1837-1839, conducted by Alois Ludwig Pichl, a student Nobile. This facade, with its characteristic colossal columns is considered an important example of the classicism in Vienna.

Use until the 20th century

In the 16th century, the country house was a cultural and religious center of the time was majority Protestant Lower Austrian nobility and the Lutheran -minded Viennese citizens. This feature disappeared with the Counter-Reformation. On March 13, 1848, the country house to the starting point of the revolution, as citizens and students forced the Lower Austrian estates, to support a petition to the Emperor, in which a constitution as well as press and freedom of assembly were required (see Lajos Kossuth and Adolf Fischhof ).

In 1861 the passing now to the point of the stalls Lower Austrian Landtag took over the building. The manor house, the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council, met provisionally from 1861-1883 in the building.

Political significance

After the end of World War II, the establishment of the Provisional National Assembly of the independent Austrian state was held here on October 21, 1918.

By 1921 it was used for both the Lower Austrian together with the Vienna deputies. Since the secession of Lower Austria of Vienna in 1922 to 1997 it was the seat of the Lower Austrian Landtag until the state legislature moved by the relocation of the state government to the new capital St. Pölten.

In the autumn of 1945, a conference of national representatives took place here, where it was decided that the western provinces, the (originally effective only in the Soviet occupation zone) Renner government acknowledge what is regarded as constitutive of the Second Republic.

In 1995, the mayor of Vienna and Governor Michael Häupl and the Lower Austrian provincial Governor Erwin Pröll signed an agreement in Vienna on him according to law of separation entitled half ownership of the Lower Austrian country house transferred the province of Lower Austria.

The value compensation for this transfer of ownership Vienna received the province of Lower Austria, among others, whose ownership interests in the

• Nursing home Klosterneuburg, at the
• Danube Island North and the
• Building of the District Commission Wien-Umgebung in the Alserbachstraße transferred 41.

Use

The Palais Lower Austria is used for conferences, meetings and celebrations public and private institutions, and can also be rented for private purposes.