Palais Trautson
Palais Trautson traces its roots to Countess Maria Margareta Trautson’s holding in 1657, when the site held a small house and a vineyard. After the Battle of Vienna, Johann Leopold Donat von Trautson—described as prince of Troutson—commissioned Christian Alexander Oedtl to raise a Baroque palace there in 1712, drawing on designs by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The building’s story shifts when Empress Maria Theresa of Austria purchased the palace in 1760 for 40,000 guilders, then passed it to the Hungarian Guard. That garrison remade the grounds: the garden became a riding school, and the orangery was converted into stables. By 1920, the Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna made the palace its base, followed in 1924 by the Collegium Hungaricum. In 1961, the Hungarian government sold Palais Trautson—an end to one chapter of imperial and military use, leaving a Viennese palace shaped by Hungarian presence.
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