Palais Clam-Gallas (Vienna)

The Clam-Gallas Palace is located at Währinger Straße 32-36, Vienna.

History

It was built from 1834 to 1835 down in the classical style with an extensive English garden to the street Liechtenstein 37a of Franz Joseph Fürst von Dietrich stone by the architect Henry Koch. Inside, a nearly square, flat-roofed entrance hall, left the elegantly curved, cantilevered platform stair in open pilastergegliedertem staircase. In the side wings, arranged symmetrically, two cantilevered, running in shallow arc stairs, all with steps from the Kaiserstein Brucher stone.

It is also often (summer) palais Dietrichsteinplatz called and is then easily confused with other palace of Dietrich stone. The reason the corridor designation " Sohlschneiderin " was already acquired in 1690 by Ferdinand Josef Imperial Prince Dietrich stone and used as a garden. It concluded on April 28, 1850 as part of the wedding of Princess Clotilde of Dietrich stone Proskau, the granddaughter of the founder, with Edward Count Clam -Gallas in the possession of the von Clam- Gallas.

After the Second World War, the building served some time taking care of American troops. In 1952 the family sold the property to the Republic of France, in the French Cultural Institute in Vienna einrichtete and uses it since 1980 as a cultural and scientific department of their message.

In the lower part of the park, in the street Liechtenstein, the Lycée Français de Vienne was newly built and participated in the May 8, 1954 on its operation. The standing there right next to the road building, was rebuilt by Dietrichsteinplatz to riding school with on the back still apparent romanticized Gothic windows. At times it housed the studio of the sculptor Theodor Friedl ( 1842-1900 ). After it was the " flyer " cinema, which once again transformed in 1971 and the Lycée was incorporated as a "Studio Moliere ".

2006-2007 was a comprehensive renovation of the Palais and the repair of the iron lattice fence to Währingerstraße. Some state rooms are rented for special occasions.

The Palais is an elegant two-storey neo-classical building with a porch that extends across the entire front part and reminds with its Doric columns of a Greek temple. The rear garden has existed in its old form no longer, now the largest part occupies the French school, a certain residual inventory foreshadowing the original atmosphere.