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Landhaus
A stately Renaissance palace crowned by twin onion-domed towers, built by Carinthia's nobility as their seat of power. Behind its calm facade hides the Wappensaal, a baroque hall ablaze with 665 painted coats of arms.
Sobre este lugar
The Landhaus is the finest secular Renaissance building in Klagenfurt, raised between 1574 and 1594 on the site of a former ducal castle by order of the Carinthian estates, the assembly of nobles and clergy who effectively governed the province while the Habsburg emperors ruled from afar. Its horseshoe plan wraps around a graceful two-storey arcaded courtyard, and two slender towers capped with onion domes give the building its unmistakable silhouette. A devastating fire in 1723 gutted much of the interior, prompting a lavish baroque restoration that produced the building's crowning glory, the Great Wappensaal, or Hall of Coats of Arms. Today the Landhaus still serves as the seat of the Carinthian state parliament, so this is not a museum piece but a living centre of regional politics, where lawmakers still gather beneath frescoes painted almost three centuries ago.
Datos clave
- 665 coats of arms — Painted across the walls and ceiling of the Great Wappensaal, a heraldic archive of Carinthia's noble families
- 1594 year — The Landhaus was completed after roughly two decades of construction that began in 1574
- 1723 year — A catastrophic fire gutted the building, triggering the baroque redesign that created the famous halls
📍 Landhaushof, 9020, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee