Palais Trautson, Baroque palace in Neubau district, Vienna, Austria

Palais Trautson is a Baroque city palace at Museumstraße 7 in Vienna's Neubau district, now housing the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice. Its three-storey white facade has a projecting central section crowned by a triangular pediment with golden relief sculpture and three statues on the roofline; three lower windows are framed by columns, and ornate white statues stand on balcony brackets above the wooden double entrance door. Sculptor Johann Georg Haresleben of Kaisersteinbruch supplied hard Kaiserstein for the portal, balcony and ceremonial staircase steps.

Johann Leopold Donat Graf Trautson commissioned the palace in 1712; Christian Alexander Oedtl built it to designs by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, modelled on Amsterdam's town hall. Maria Theresa bought it in 1760 for 40,000 guilders and gave it to the Hungarian Guard, which turned the garden into a riding school and the orangery into stables. The guard was dissolved in 1848 and the palace became headquarters of the Lower Austrian army command; a new Hungarian bodyguard was based here from 1867.

The palace takes its name from the Trautson family, who owned the land from 1657. From 1924 to 1963 it housed the Collegium Hungaricum, and the nearby Gardegasse has commemorated the Hungarian Guard since 1909. Reliefs above many windows depict scenes from ancient legends.

The palace at Museumstraße 7 houses Austria's Federal Ministry of Justice, so the interior is a working office building rather than a museum open to tourists. Visitors see the three-storey facade, the portal and balcony of hard Kaiserstein from Kaisersteinbruch, and the statues above the entrance from the street. The Gardegasse in the 7th district, named in 1909, recalls the Hungarian Guard once stationed here.

The garden was converted into a riding school and the orangery into stables for the Hungarian Guard after Maria Theresa bought the palace in 1760. The Gardegasse in the 7th district has commemorated that guard since 1909.