Winterpalais
Winterpalais—also called the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene, or Winterpalais Prinz Eugen—was built to house the Habsburg commander’s seasonal life in Vienna, when he spent his summers at the Belvedere. Construction began in 1695, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach shaped the palace from 1695 to 1700, before Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt continued the work from 1702 to 1724. As early as 1698, painters were working on ceiling frescoes, while Andrea Simone Carove acted as Fischer von Erlach’s construction manager. The palace then became a tool of imperial administration. In 1738, Empress Maria Theresa acquired it by auction for the imperial court, and in 1752 Nicolò Pacassi converted it for state institutions. Later, it housed the finance ministry of the Austrian Empire from 1848 to 1918, and since 1919 it has continued as the Ministry of Finance. Its renovation in 2007–2013 helped restore the complex. …
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