Palais Khevenhüller-Metsch, Baroque palace in Alsergrund district, Vienna, Austria

Palais Khevenhüller-Metsch is an early-historicist city palace at Türkenstraße 19, built in 1858 by Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein in the manner of the Viennese Baroque palace. A tall two-storey base with diamond rustication carries segmental-arched windows on the mezzanine and round-arched windows above; a round-arched portal with flanking pilasters marks the central axis, and giant pilasters close the base at the sides.

Prince Anton Richard Khevenhüller-Metsch had the palace built in 1858; the architects Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein designed it in the style of the Viennese Baroque palace type. The sources give 1858 as the year of construction, not a completion two years later.

The building is a private city palace on Türkenstraße, not a public museum; the sources record no musical-theatre organisation in residence. Its cultural interest lies in the name: the Khevenhüller-Metsch family, an Austrian noble house, gave the palace its name, and the coat of arms cartouche under the stone balcony still displays that lineage to passers-by.

The palace stands at Türkenstraße 19 in the Alsergrund, Vienna's ninth district. The address is a residential street; the facade with its round-arched portal and stone balcony can be viewed from the pavement. The sources record no opening times or visitor programme, so plan on an exterior visit.

The lions do not stand beside the portal but flank the coat-of-arms cartouche mounted directly beneath the stone balcony, above the round-arched entrance. Look up at the middle axis: the cartouche sits between them, framed by pilasters, with the balcony projecting over the whole group.