Palais Kinsky
Palais Kinsky, sometimes called Palais Daun-Kinsky, is a Baroque palace whose story begins with Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, the garrison commander whose son Leopold later became a Field Marshal of Empress Maria Theresa. Construction started in 1713, under the direction of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, and the palace’s interior has long been defined by its frescoed ceilings and the grand staircase—furnished with mirrors and statues and set beneath richly decorated surfaces. On 7 May 1763, Prince Józef Poniatowski, a Polish general and Marshal of France, was born in these rooms. In 1784 the palace was sold to the Kinsky family of Bohemia, and Matilde Kinsky later married Argentine Martinez de Hoz. The building then served diplomatic life in unexpected ways: it became the Argentine embassy for a decade in the 1960s, and it later hosted final-status negotiations between Serbian and Kosovo Albanians in EU-sponsored talks. …
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