Eggenberg Palace
Baroque palace built as a calendar in stone, with 24 state rooms, a park and Joanneum collections.
Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, governor of Inner Austria, began the palace in 1625 on the site of a medieval manor west of Graz, employing the court architect and painter Giovanni Pietro de Pomis. The plan is a square with four corner towers around an arcaded courtyard, and its numbers follow the calendar: 365 exterior windows, 31 rooms on each main floor, 24 state rooms with 52 doors and 60 windows, and four towers for the seasons. Work was largely finished by 1635.
The state rooms were redecorated in the middle of the eighteenth century, when about 600 ceiling and wall paintings were fitted into the Planetary Room and its neighbours, along with Japanese and Chinese painted panels. The palace is run by the Universalmuseum Joanneum and also houses the Alte Galerie of medieval and early modern European art, the Coin Cabinet and the Archaeology Museum. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage listing for Graz in 2010.
Highlights
- Calendar design with 365 windows and 24 state rooms
- Planetary Room with a painted ceiling cycle of the 1680s
- Alte Galerie, Coin Cabinet and Archaeology Museum on site
- Baroque park with peacocks and a planetary garden
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