Palais Trautson
The Palais Trautson is a palace in the 7th district of Vienna new building on Museum Road 7
History
The reason in the suburb of Saint Ulrich, on which the palace is situated, was one from 1657, the Countess Maria Margareta Trautson. On one part stood a house, the rest were vineyards or undeveloped. In the course of construction wave after the Second Siege of Vienna of Reichshofrat and Johann Leopold Donat Count Lord Chamberlain Trautson left (later 1st Duke Trautson ) in 1712 to build a palace here, which is one of the most important baroque buildings in Vienna. His model was the Amsterdam townhouse. The architect was Alexander Christian Oedtl; he built according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.
The palace was the scene of many festivities. Maria Theresa bought it in 1760 to around 40,000 guilders and put it the Hungarian Guard are available. This led to some modifications, from the garden in front of the building was a riding school, instead of the garden wall and the Orangerie stables were built. 1848, the Hungarian Guard was disbanded and the palace was the seat of the Lower Austrian army command. After the Austro- Hungarian Compromise in 1867 was again a Hungarian Life Guards, which had its headquarters in the Palais. This led to further modifications. Even after the collapse of the monarchy (1918 ), the building was owned by the Hungarian State; it housed from 1924 to 1963, the Collegium Hungaricum. The former People's Republic of Hungary sold the building to the Republic of Austria (since they did not want to finance the constraints imposed by the conservation renovations ) and erected a new building in the Eastern Bloc plate style in Vienna's 2nd district in Holland Road. The Gardegasse in the 7th district recalls since 1909, the Hungarian Guard.
1961 acquired the Republic of Austria, the palace for the administration of justice. Here, the demolition was considered, which led to heated discussions. The recent additions to the museum and the street Lerchenfelderstraße have been removed; on the grounds of the former garden created prefabs for UNIDO. The part at the Neustiftgasse was replaced by an office building.
It now houses the Federal Ministry of Justice in the Palais Trautson.
Description
The palace was provided with a richly decorated, three-story facade. Steinmetz orders received master Hans Georg Haresleben from Kaiser quarry of hard stone for Portal Emperor, balcony and the steps of the grand staircase used. The imposing staircase leads to the Ceremonial Hall. About many windows there are reliefs depicting scenes from ancient mythology.