Palais Liechtenstein by DRONE. Neat Short View... Low Battery... =) - Vienna Austria - ECTV

The Gartenpalais Liechtenstein is a baroque palace on Fürstengasse in Vienna's 9th district, Alsergrund. There is a park between the palace, which housed the Liechtenstein Museum until the end of 2011, and the "Alserbachpalais", which was originally designed as a belvedere. Since the beginning of 2012, the Liechtenstein Garden Palace has been available as a venue for events. Part of the private art collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein is still located in the gallery rooms of the palace. In 2010, in order to avoid confusion in the future, the palace began to be officially referred to as the Garden Palace, as the Liechtenstein City Palace in Vienna's old town had been renovated by 2013 and then also equipped with part of the Liechtenstein art collection.
In 1687, Prince Johann Adam Andreas of Liechtenstein acquired a garden with adjacent meadows from Count Weikhard von Auersperg in Rossau. In the southern part of the property, the prince had a palace built, in the north he founded a brewery and a manor, from which the suburb of Lichtental developed. In 1688, Johann Adam Andreas launched a competition for the construction of the palace, in which the young Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, among others, took part. However, his less functional, "permeable" project was rejected by the prince, but instead he was allowed to build a garden belvedere at Alserbachstraße 14, which, however, was demolished in 1872.
The competition was won by Domenico Egidio Rossi, who was replaced by Domenico Martinelli in 1692. The execution of the stonemasonry work had been entrusted to the princely court stonemason Martin Mitschke. The Kaisersteinbruch masters Ambrosius Ferrethi, Giovanni Battista Passerini and Martin Trumler supplied him with large pillars, columns and pedestals made of Kaiserstein. The contract began on 4 July 1689, and the total cost was around 50,000 guilders.
According to contracts from 1693 and 1701, the Salzburg master stonemasons Johann Pernegger and Joseph Eigner undertook to supply the steps of the grand staircase made of Lienbacher (= Adneter Rot) marble monoliths of 4.65 metres in length for 4,060 guilders. The staircase balustrades came from Master Nicolaus Wendlinger from Hallein for 1,000 guilders.
A mixture of city and country house in Roman style was built, a palazzo in villa. The structure is clear and the construction very block-like with an accentuated central risalite, which suited the conservative taste of the prince. According to the prescription of the architectural treatise of Johann Adam Andreas' father, Karl Eusebius, the palace was built on three floors and with 13 window axes on the main front and seven window axes on the side façade. Together with the porches, it forms a courtyard of honour.
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