Palais Strozzi

The former Palais Strozzi is located in Vienna 's 8th district of Josefstadt, at the Josefstädterstraße 39 It was built in 1699-1702 for Countess Maria Katharina Strozzi, nee Khevenhüller.

Building history

Countess Maria Katharina Strozzi was originally build a modest summer residence, which initially consisted only of the one-story main building of today's palace. The lavish garden of the Countess handed contrast to Piaristengasse. The architect of the original building is not known, but it could have originated from the vicinity of Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. After the death of the Countess in 1714, her nephew Colonel Johann Ludwig Graf Khevenhüller inherited the estate, which he, however, two years later sold to the Archbishop of Valencia, Antonio Francesco Folco de Cardona. This could extend the summer palace to the side wings and the court which was separated by a wall from the street. De Cardona bequeathed the palace the Emperor Charles VI. , Whose advisor he had been, Empress Maria Theresa gave away the palace in 1753 again the Feldzeugmeister Johann Graf Chotková. However, expansion plans and the Seven Years' War forced him to sell large parts of the garden.

Nevertheless, the palace remained until the mid-19th century family-owned, but is partially rented, about the painter Friedrich von Amerling. 1840 bought by the state of the building, judging the kk Civil - girls ' boarding school a. As the building for its new use was too small, you stopped on the building and gave it a completely new look. From the opposite Reiterkaserne the girls' 1877/78 was separated by a new wing. 1919 moved from the girls' and was used by the City of Vienna for the Disability Pension. From 1940 to 7 December 2012, the middle was in the building until its relocation to the financial center of Vienna, the tax office for districts 8, 16 and 17 housed in Vienna.

Building

The pink and white-colored palace is located behind the plain, 1877/78 established Gründerzeit. On the garden side, a staircase is upstream, the symmetric staircase to the courtyard, however, was canceled. The interior of the palace no longer exists, but at a general renovation 1995-1998 frescoes were uncovered in the Sala terrene. These were created in 1740 in the cave architecture of rough masonry with shells and coral.