Palais Preysing

The Palais Preysing is the City Palace, the Colonel Jägermeister Johann Maximilian Emanuel IV Count of Preysing was built in the northern town of Munich. It is located in the residence 27, at the corner of Viscardigasse, the so-called slackers alley. When it was built, was located directly behind the Palais Schwabinger Gate, today the Feldherrenhalle. The Palais Preysing was the first rococo palace in Munich. In contrast to the little developed later Palais Neuhaus- Preysing in the Prannerstraße the palace is also known as Senior Palais Preysing.

The builder was at court and was an educator and consultant of Elector Karl Albrecht. After he was out of this well several times because of its not socially according dwelling which stood on the same site and in the immediate vicinity of the residence, ridiculed and mocked, commissioned the architect Joseph Effner Count Preysing, a representative of the palace built in the years 1723-1728. Was carried out in such haste that the masons even had to do their work by torchlight at night. The equipment was unusually gorgeous. These particular contributed the stucco work by Dominic Zimmermann. But even in mundane objects was not saved; so for example, were the feeding bowls for horses made ​​of marble and cost per piece of the then enormous sum of 25 guilders. The travel writer and Great Brita African Council Johann Georg Keyssler reported in his letters of the great ornament of which the palace is now for Munich.

In 1835 it became the first commercial building of the newly founded Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank. This drew in 1898 to near the Promenade square, where they resided ever since.

After suffering heavy damage during World War II, the building was reconstructed by Erwin Schleich the original building. The interior, however, was removed in the interior in the 19th century up to the remarkable three-armed magnificent staircase with rich stucco and caryatids. In modern times, many shops and clinics are housed, a shopping arcade runs through the house. The house is one of the most prestigious addresses in Munich.