Palais Bartolotti-Partenfeld

The palace of the Barons of Bartolotti Partenfeld is a palace in the first district of Vienna Inner City on the corner of Trench / Dorotheergasse. It is the only baroque building that has survived the alterations of the trench in the 19th century.

History

In this square ( ditch 11/Dorotheergasse 2-4) were already at least since the 14th century pharmacies. 1454, when the house belonged Vincent Hack Berger, a congress was held there, at which the question of how to suppress the Kurpfuscherwesens, was discussed. Later, the building was also in possession of the later mayor Wolfgang Georg good prince.

1704 the house was bought by the Imperial Hofkammerräten Johann Paul and Johann Carl Bartolotti Barons of Partenfeld, who were brothers. In 1720 they sought permission to for a new building. The design of the Palais probably goes back to Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt. What is certain is that it was built by master mason Franz Jänggl. The palace served primarily as a tenement, which is already evident in the lack of a representative vestibule and staircase. Johann Carl Bartolotti was raised in 1729 in the rank of count, but lost large sums of money in the collapse of the exchange house Hauzenberger, so that he had to sell much of his possession. In 1735, the palace was bought by the dealer Matthias Weißenböck 1749 it came into the possession of Anna Maria Pilgram, wife of Franz Anton Pilgram. By 1906, the family retained ownership of Pilgram until it could bring Prix of Joseph, who had been there previously operated a fashion boutique, into his possession in 1906. 1967, the ground floor area was renovated.

Description

The palace has to dig only four window bays, the main façade is located in the narrow Dorotheergasse, where it has a weak buttress in the middle. The ground floor windows are decorated with keystones. On the first floor there is a statue of the Madonna. The courtyard is lined with galleries all. Inside, there are two flights of stairs, left a spiral staircase with steps in both the hard Kaiserstein Brucher stone. On the first floor there is a vaulted ceiling. The last floor of the trench is a later addition, but still the roof and the chimneys come from the construction period.