Breuner Palace

Palais Breuner is a former Graz city palace located at the corner of Herrengasse and Stempfergasse in the Innere Stadt district.

Until 1565, a predecessor building of Palais Breuner was owned by the Graz councilor Marx Ste(ä?)mpfer, after whom the "Stempfergasse" was named. In the same year, it was bought from him by Servatius von Teuffenbach and expanded into a palace, incorporating two other townhouses. The Renaissance-style building was completed five years later, in 1570. The building came into the possession of the Counts of Breuner through inheritance. In 1639, a Baron von Stadl sold it to Count Hans Sigmund von Wagensberg, who then gifted it to his daughter Regina, who was married to Maximilian von Breuner but was already widowed at that time. Carl Gottfried von Breuner, a court chamber president, had the palace rebuilt by master builder Isidor Carlone after he was ennobled as a count in 1666. The Baroque transformation of the palace took place in 1742 and was commissioned by Count Carl Adam Breuner, until a few years later it was considered one of the most beautiful city houses in Graz.

The house, which had been partly rented since 1783, was severely damaged in a gunpowder explosion in 1822, when the wing located on Stempfergasse collapsed. This event was the reason for a stricter fire regulation in Graz. From 1828, due to an inheritance, Palais Breuner was in the possession of the family of the Counts of Lamberg until 1932. After a bomb hit in 1944 during World War II, the wing on the Stempfergasse side was again severely damaged. From 1945 to 1987, the editorial office of a daily newspaper, as well as the Ärztebank and some offices, moved into the premises. In 1989 and 1990, the former palace was completely renovated.