Prinz-Carl-Palais
The Prinz -Carl -Palais is an early classicist palace in Munich. It's official residence (not flat ) of the Bavarian Minister-President. Today it is used by the Bavarian government for representation purposes.
Location
The Prinz -Carl -Palais (Franz -Josef- Strauß-Ring 5) is located east of the garden between financial Hofgarten and Englischer Garten. It forms the optical beginning Prinzregentenstraße.
History
A native of Lorraine Abbé Pierre de Salabert, educators of Elector Max IV Joseph, who later became King Max I Joseph, acquired in extensive basic dimensions in the area of the former Wall mount which allowed the installation of the later so-called financial garden. In March 1803, only 21 - year-old Karl Fischer was commissioned with the planning of the palace. Karl Fischer had to significantly reduce the first elaborate design while retaining the representative main facade: it was a complex of the main wing and left- wing recently on the back left. The foundation stone was laid on May 24, 1804; the palace was purchased in August 1806. After Pierre de Salabert was passed in 1807, acquired King Max I Joseph the building, which was now called the Palais Royal or Royal Pavilion. Shortly after his accession to the throne it transmitted King Ludwig I on November 14, 1825 to his brother, Prince Carl, who left the Palais expand considerably by Jean Baptiste Métivier. The main rooms have been redecorated 1827-1830 by Jean -Baptiste Métevier and Anton Schwanthalerstraße. After his death in 1876 the palace was the seat of the Austro-Hungarian Legation, which remained there until 1919. In 1924 it was determined to official residence of the Prime Minister of Bavaria.
After the DC circuit and repeal of the Bavarian government by the Nazi rulers Prinz -Carl -Palais in 1937, rebuilt in a major refurbishment to the guesthouse. The palace was thereby considerably extended to the west; the north wing Métiviers, which was demolished because of the simultaneous broadening of the Von-der- Tann -Straße, was replaced by a new one, designed by Fritz Gablonsky, which were developed based on the model of the south wing. The Prinz -Carl -Palais survived the Second World War only slightly damaged. It was then in 1948 the seat of the newly founded Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In addition, the palace was used from 1967 as a manor house into the Glyptothek and the State Collection of Antiquities. Since 1968, the Prinz- Carl- Palais official residence of the Prime Minister of Bavaria, but not for representation purposes as housing and only. During construction of the tunnel Altstadtring 1970, the basement had to be demolished for the underpinning of a reinforced concrete slab of the tunnel; since the Prince -Carl -Palais is available virtually at the ceiling of the old town ring tunnel. 1971-1975 restored and rebuilt the Landbauamt to Munich for around 87 million DM. The front garden has been slightly advanced and inserted a central two-story foyer with staircase in modern forms, gallery and skylight. The original plans of the 1970s provided for the use of the Palais by the Prime Minister and his closest staff. The meetings of the Council of Ministers (cabinet) took place here. After the completion of the new Bavarian State Chancellery 1993, the Prime Minister finally moved with his staff in the new building. Since then, the use of the Palais limited to representation. The Prinz -Carl -Palais is the prime minister reserved, even ministers did not have the opportunity to organize events in the house. One of the few ways to view the building, was until 2010 in June annual open day of the State.
Appreciation
The Prinz -Carl -Palais is a prime example of the Munich early classicism. In the old building is the neo-classical interior design - especially parquet panels, carved paneled doors, stucco and rich decorative painting on the ceiling mirror - largely preserved. You will probably be mainly attributed Métivier. The transverse rectangular banquet hall on the upper floor and the white-blue held " Prime Minister - room" among the most important surviving palace interiors of Munich.
Inside the palace there are photos from Greece cycle of Carl Rottmann (1797-1850), who was commissioned by Ludwig I., and is considered Rottmann's major work. On display are " Sicyon with Corinth ( Greece cycle No. 18), Eleusis (No. 22), The Lion Gate of Mycenae (No. 2) and Olympia (No. 16 ). Downstairs there is a marble candelabra from the Roman imperial period. In tour of the first floor can be found a statue of Flora Carrara marble ( Petro Tenerani, 1789-1869, Rome) and the Nyx of white and black marble.