Breuner Palace

The palace's origins date back to before 1565, when a predecessor building stood on this site, owned by Graz councilman Marx Stempfer. In the same year, Servatius von Teuffenbach acquired the property and expanded it by incorporating two other bourgeois houses into a Renaissance palace, completed in 1570. Through inheritance, it came into the possession of the Counts of Breuner. After a sale in 1639 to Count Hans Sigmund von Wagensberg, he gifted it to his widowed daughter Regina, who was married to Maximilian von Breuner. Carl Gottfried von Breuner, ennobled as a count in 1666, commissioned master builder Isidor Carlone for a renovation. A Baroque transformation took place in 1742 under Count Carl Adam Breuner. A powder explosion in 1822 caused damage to the wing facing Stempfergasse. From 1828 to 1932, it was owned by the Counts of Lamberg. During World War II, the Stempfergasse wing was damaged again by a bomb hit in 1944. After the war, a daily newspaper's editorial office, the doctors' bank, and offices occupied the premises. A general renovation took place in 1989 and 1990.