Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace, Josef Lex photo
Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace – a magnificent four-storeyed baroque building on Am Square Hof. On a place of this palace once there was the Jewish garden, then there was a school based by Jesuits. At first the XVII century the building was redeemed by the Hungarian count Imre Turzo.
There was 1620. The count Turzo – the specific adherent of Protestants – has been obliged to leave Vienna. The palace has been confiscated by the authorities and sold to the Venetian count Franz Antonio Kollalto. To Vienna the fashion has already come to baroque style, and Italian Kollalto has decided to bring in the being at home Turzo’s type of a configuration in Baroque style, to build on new floors.
Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace, Douglas Sprott photo
In 1715-25, after death of the first owner, reconstruction of a facade of a palace in the course of which it has taken the finished baroque form was carried out. The triangular pediment finishing a facade in the beginning, during this period have taken down. Ranks of windows on a stylish beige front wall have down divided pilasters with freakish modelled capitals. The highest rectangular apertures of the second floor have been decorated with triangular eaves; over a poluvalmovy dvuskatny roof have risen magnificent люкарны.
Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace, Marcus Cook photo
The main entrance took place in the middle of a facade – wide doors of a dark tree were located in a stone niche, under a balcony with an openwork shod balustrade. Very tightly to a palace, on the right side, there was a church building of «Nine angelic choruses». Two structures incorporated transition.
Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace, Douglas Sprott photo
Kollalto’s palace has entered into world musical history: in its walls in 1762 has passed six-year Mozart’s 1st concert (this fact the memorial plate on Palais Collalto facade confirms).
At first the XXI century structure reconstruction was carried out. Pieces of the bases of other, more starenky structures (XIII and XV centuries) have been found in its cellar. Also the round room protected by a wall of the 2nd metre thickness was found. On view of archeologists, it there were remains of a watchtower of the XIII century.
Now the palace belongs to Bank of Austria.
Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace, Josef Lex photo
Kollalto’s (Palais Collalto) palace