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Palais Klein

Austria

Despite the grand name, Palais Klein is not a castle on a hill but a town palace on a Viennese square. It stands at Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz 2, in the 1st district, the Innere Stadt. The architect Carl Tietz built it in 1867 for the Klein family, industrialists. He designed a building of three wings, in the strict historicist manner, dressed in the forms of the Neo-Renaissance. Stand across the square and read it as a statement of new money choosing an old-fashioned grammar.

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