Hauenschild palace, Renaissance palace in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Hauenschild palace is a late Renaissance townhouse at the corner of Dolní náměstí and Lafayettova street in Olomouc. Its two upper floors carry a cylindrical corner bay window with six relief panels illustrating scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the sandstone portal is flanked by statues of shield-bearers with the arms of Bohemia and Moravia.

The oldest record of the house dates from 1569, when Martin and Anna Matuš bought a Gothic house with a wine cellar from Jan Weis. Wine merchant Šebestián Hauenschild of Fürstenfeld owned it from 1586, and under his family the house was rebuilt as a two-storey palace in the 1590s. Only parts of the Gothic cellars survive.

During a notable visit in 1767, eleven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his sixth symphony in F-major while staying at the palace with his family.

The palace stands at Dolní náměstí 38, on the corner with Lafayettova street in Olomouc's old town. The Hanácká restaurant occupies the ground floor toward Lafayettova; upper floors hold offices and non-profit organisations and are not open as a museum. A memorial plaque by the restaurant entrance marks the Mozart family's stay.

The cylindrical corner bay window carries two bands of reliefs illustrating six scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including Actaeon and Diana and Pyramus and Thisbe. The carving is attributed to G. Gialdi after designs by V. Salisa. Below, two faun half-figures merge into the rusticated ground floor.