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Lobkowitz Palace
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The Lobkowitz Palace is a baroque
palace in the first Viennese municipality district of the internal city.
It stands at the Lobkowitzplatz, designated after it, which was called "pig
market" previously, and was a less distinguished address. The Lobkowitz
Palace ranks among the oldest palace buildings of Vienna. The palace is the
first important baroque city palace after the second Turk Türkenbelagerung,
when the aristocracy had to invest its money no longer only into military
purposes.
The front of the palace is, unlike the inside, still to a large extent in
its original condition from the time it was constructed. The original house
that stood in the place of the current palace was sold in the year 1685 by
Leopold baron von Felss to the imperial Colonel stable master Philipp
Sigmund count von Dietrichstein. This led to the current palace, built in
the years 1685 and 1687 by Giovanni Pietro Tencala. Beside the house of the
Baron von Felss, the palace was established also at the place of the
originally neighbouring bath house, which was also bought by Philipp Sigmund
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After repeated ownership changes
(with count Wenzel Gallas), the palace was bought in 1745 by Ferdinand
Philipp prince by Lobkowitz. The palace was from that time up to the
year 1980 in the possession of the family Lobkowitz. Under the family
Lobkowitz, several changes occurred in the palace. At the beginning of
the 18th Century, most notably, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and
his son Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach were entrusted with it.
Around the early 19th Century, Ludwig van Beethoven was often a guest in
the palace, since he was a concern of the owner at that time, Franz
Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz, an important sponsor of the composer.
Beethoven's Third Symphony was dedicated to the prince, which is why the
festival room of the palace was also baptized "Eroica hall," and in
1804, the Third Symphony of Beethoven's was specified under his line in
this hall the first time in Vienna.
At present, the Congress of Vienna
has held numerous celebrations and balls in the palace. Around the
center of the 19th Century, shifted the Lobkowitz the head office of the
family in the master lock after Raudnitz in Nordböhmen, and the Viennese
released the palace for letting. In the years 1869 to 1909, the house
was used as the French embassy. Later, in the years 1919 to 1938, the
Czechoslovakian legation was accommodated there. After end of the Second
World War, the house was used as seat of the Institut of the Français de
Vienne. In the year 1980, the palace became government property, and
since the year 1991, after a comprehensive renovation, has become the
theatre museum of the Austrian National Library.
Text Source: Wikipedia
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