Palais Eskeles
The Palais Eskeles is a palace in the Dorotheergasse 11 in the 1st district in Vienna, where the Jewish Museum Vienna.
History
1414 was built by the Augustinian Canons in this area the " Dorotheerstift " and extended by the purchase of adjacent objects that the monastery in the early 16th century already miteinschloss the front of the present house No. 11. Due to the increasing maintenance costs rented and sold the pen soon a part of the complex, which included the area of the house No. 11.
1782 pin by Joseph II was placed under the administration of the Klosterneuburg Monastery and repealed in 1786. The Klosterneuburger Convention rented then the deconsecrated church and other buildings at a pawn shop. The church served as the auction hall was later named after this church Dorotheum.
1804, the building was Dorotheergasse 11 owned by August of wood master, who a year later sold it to Anna Maria von Dietrich stone, which it 1805-1807 more often, among others to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's widow Constanze Mozart and her sons Franz Xaver Wolfgang and Carl rented.
1812 the house belonged to Paul III. Prince Anton Esterházy it a year later to Alois Prince Kaunitz - Rietberg, son of Chancellor Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz - Rietberg, sold. 1823 Kaunitz entered the building on the Exekutionsweg to one of his creditors, which was founded in 1773 by Bernhard Freiherr von Eskeles Bank Arnstein and Eskeles from. In a contemporary document, it is considered princely Kaunitz cal - now referred Arnsteinisches house.
1827 the building was sold to the Hungarian Count Alexander de Szent Miklos Nako, who from 1830 lived there after a few conversions with his family and servants, whereby it became known as the Palais Nako. After it had remained for nearly 70 years in the family, Koloman Count Nako de Szent Miklos sold the house to the builder Ignaz butchers and Salomon stone.
1895, the palace was purchased by Hugo Hermann Werner Ottomar Miethke with the entire facility as a location for the gallery Miethke. Miethke was completely remodel the neoclassical building by the Viennese master builder " Kupka & Orglmeister ". The portal was provided with a glass and iron canopy and redesigned the vestibule rococo. The floor was laid down by four notches to make the entrance appear higher. The floor was covered with white marble and the walls are covered with yellow and purple -spotted plates. Pilasters and balustrades were made of dark red marble Berger. A marble portal stressed the entrance to the former courtyard, which had been transformed by the installation of a glass ceiling of the exhibition hall. Under the later line of painter Carl Moll, the gallery has developed into a center of modern art.
After the end of World War II, the palace was used as Eskeles " house of the young artistic community " and came in 1936 in the possession of Dorotheum.
In July 1993, referring to the Jewish Museum Vienna, after it had previously been housed as a stopgap in the premises of the Jewish Community in Seitenstettengasse 4, the Palais. The museum was opened on 18 November 1993.