Palais Erdődy

Palais Erdödy was a palace in Vienna ^{1. It was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy in 1802 and designed and build by the architect Karl von Moreau.}

The palace was up to three storeys high and build in the Empire-style. The entrance was an enormous archway with a coffered ceiling. From there, a staircase decorated with Corinthian columns led to an elegant ballroom, that had mirrored double-doors, walls clad in white, artificial marble, gilded capitals, frescoes, and a richly decorated parquet ^{2. The whole ensemble was one of the best examples of architecture of its time.}

The palace was subsequently sold by the Esterhazy to the Erdödy family, under whose name the palace was renamed. It was slightly damaged during World War II. The new owners, the "Verein der Freunde des Wohnungseigentums" (Association of the friends of real-estate), had the building destroyed in 1955 to make way for a new, modern building^3.

Notes

^{1 Address was at Krugerstraße 10 / Walfischgasse 9, in the I. district Innere Stadt. 2 pg. 123, Dieter Klein, Martin Knupf, Robert Schediwy (Ed.) Stadtbildverluste Wien - Ein Rückblick auf fünf Jahrzehnte. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005. 3 pg. 123, Dieter Klein, Martin Knupf, Robert Schediwy (Ed.) Stadtbildverluste Wien - Ein Rückblick auf fünf Jahrzehnte. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005.}

References

• Dieter Klein, Martin Knupf, Robert Schediwy (Ed.) Stadtbildverluste Wien - Ein Rückblick auf fünf Jahrzehnte. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-8258-7754-x