- Schloß Pötzleinsdorf
"Schloß Pötzleinsdorf" or "Schloss Pötzleinsdorf" is a former
palace inVienna .The palace was a nobleman's residence in the mid-17th century, but in the next century the building became known as "Ricci'scher Freihof", after a merchant called Ricci who used it for cloth manufacture and silk dying. [ [http://www.bezirksmuseum.at/waehring/page.asp/680.htm Bezirksmuseum Währing] ] The estate was bought by
Countess Philippina von Herberstein toward the end of the 18th century. She began turning the grounds into a park, before selling to thebanker Johann Heinrich Geymüller in 1797. He rebuilt the house as a palace, and had the gardens landscaped in a romantic English style, since when they have been considered some of Vienna’s finest. [pg. 192. Dieter Klein, Martin Kupf, Robert Schediwy (Ed.) Stadtbildverluste Wien - Ein Rückblick auf fünf Jahrzehnte. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-8258-7754-x] After Geymüller went bankrupt in 1841, the estate was auctioned, and had changed hands several times when theindustrialist Max Schmidt purchased it in 1920. Since 1935 the palace and the surrounding 33hectare s ofpark have belonged to the city of Vienna and have been open to the public. WhenRoland Rainer modernised the building after theSecond World War he removed many of the decorative features, both interior and exterior, and ayouth hostel was opened there. Today it houses the Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf "Rudolf Steiner-Schule" (a Steiner or Waldorf school).Notes
The palace is in Geymüllergasse, in
Währing , the 18th district of Vienna.The address is "Geymüllergasse 1, A-1180 Wien".External links
* [http://www.wien.gv.at/english/parks/potzen.htm Pötzleinsdorf Palace Park]
* [http://www.bezirksmuseum.at/waehring/page.asp/680.htm Vienna District Museums: Währing]
* [http://www.waldorfschule-poetzleinsdorf.at/ Homepage of the Rudolf Steiner-Schule]
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