Historic site · Eggenberg, Graz, Styria
Eggenberg Palace
Schloss Eggenberg
Eggenberg Palace is the Baroque residence of the Eggenberg family in the west of Graz, begun in 1625 and run by the Universalmuseum Joanneum, with its state rooms, landscaped park and three museums.
Why go
The Universalmuseum Joanneum runs Schloss Eggenberg and describes its circle of 24 state rooms, with original 17th- and 18th-century decoration and more than 500 ceiling paintings, centred on the Planetary Room. Its palace page says the state rooms can be visited only on a guided tour, and that the palace stands in a large landscaped garden of the Romantic period. The Alte Galerie, the Archaeology Museum and the Coin Cabinet are also in the palace. Graz Tourismus says Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg commissioned it from 1625 as an architectural allegory of the universe. The Austrian Commission for UNESCO lists the palace with the historic centre of Graz as one World Heritage site, extended to Eggenberg in 2010. This record is the palace, not its park as a separate record and not the Natura 2000 designation.
Near Eggenberg Palace
Gallery
Kunsthaus Graz
Kunsthaus Graz is the Universalmuseum Joanneum's house for international contemporary art on Lendkai in Graz, a biomorphic building by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier built for the European Capital of Culture 2003.
3 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monument
Graz Clock Tower
The Clock Tower (Uhrturm) is the former fortress tower on the Schlossberg above Graz's old town, with a wooden gallery, three bells and a clock whose large hands show the hours.
4 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Park
Schlossberg Graz
The Schlossberg is the wooded hill above Graz's old town, the site of a former fortress, laid out as a public park with the Clock Tower, the Bell Tower and the remains of the fortifications.
4 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Graz Cathedral
Graz Cathedral is the late-Gothic court church that Emperor Frederick III built from 1438 in Graz's old town, the cathedral of the Catholic diocese of Graz-Seckau since 1786, beside the Mausoleum of Ferdinand II.
4 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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