Government Building Vaduz

A very beautiful building from the beginning of the 20th century, it is located in the center of Vaduz right next to the state parliament building. A detour here is definitely worth it.

Government building, Vaduz
The Liechtenstein government building is located in the government quarter in Vaduz, between the administrator's house and the parish church of St. Florin (457 m above sea level). It was built in 1903-05 according to plans by the Viennese architect Gustav Ritter von Neumann under the direction of Emil Zollinger, Zurich. Construction work and renovations took place in 1969, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The building is available to the government and its staff departments as well as the press and information office.
A lack of space in the state offices located in different locations made the construction project, which was expensive for Liechtenstein, necessary. The opening took place on December 28, 1905. The building, which was built on piled foundations and was based on late Renaissance palaces, had a high level of technical comfort for the time (e.g. the country's first central heating, a house telephone system, modern sanitary facilities).
The representative centerpiece of the government building is the Landtag hall. Its artistic furnishings were commissioned by the sovereign, Johann II, by Viennese artists, namely the sculptor Josef Beyer and the painters Eduard Gerisch, Rudolf Sagmeister, Maria Schöffmann and Raimund von Stillfried. The works testify to the client's understanding of art that can be described as traditional, and which is in the context of the intellectual historical trends in Vienna around 1900.
Author: Cornelia Herrmann
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Government district, Vaduz
Southern town center of Vaduz at the foot of the Schlosswald, bordered by the English building on the north side and the Vaduz parish church of St. Florin on the south side.
In the late Middle Ages, this section of the Lindau-Milan imperial road below Vaduz Castle was home to a stately home, the stately (private) chapel of St. Florin with court chaplaincy buildings, the so-called Tschagga tower (→ residential towers) and a customs house; the court sessions and the Landammann elections of the County of Vaduz took place near the nearby linden tree. Poeschel suspects that this is the center of the Gaugrave's, later Werdenberg, property in the Vaduz area. Since the 16th century, the area, which was originally located away from the village, developed into the so-called Amtsquartier (today the government district) through the settlement of state and later state authorities.
In 1585, the construction of a "Cantzley" building is mentioned for the first time, which could be the Landvogtei or today's Rheinbergerhaus. The latter is documented as an official building in 1617/19, in the 18th/19th century it was the office and residence of the rent master, later the seat of the princely domain administration; since 1968 it has housed the Liechtenstein Music School. The Landvogtei, also mentioned in 1617/19, was (with interruptions in the 18th century) the residence until 1918, and until 1865 also the official seat of the Landvogt (or from 1848 the state administrator). The Estates' Parliament also met in this building, known as the Administrator's House, from 1818 to 1862. Between the Administrator's House and the Rheinberger House there was the former stately court with the "Schelmahüsli" that served as a prison until the 19th century.
The administrator's house is attached to the former stately tavern, which was built around 1500. From 1637, this also served as a customs office and from 1865 to 1905 as a government building. The Liechtenstein National Museum has been located here since 1972. To the north of it, the Estates House was built in 1866-67 as a meeting place for the state parliament, which also housed the district court offices, district judges' apartments and a prison. From 1905, it was used as a secondary school, from 1961 as a state library and was demolished in 1970. From 1903-05, the current government building with the state parliament hall was built between the administrator's house and the parish church built in 1872 (also a cathedral since 1997). Other official buildings in the government district are the Schädlerhaus (today the civil registry office, among other things), the Liechtenstein State Bank (1952), the State Archives (1962) and the post office and administration building (1975).
A project by the Ticino architect Luigi Snozzi, which emerged from an urban planning ideas and project competition (1984–87), to redesign the entire area between the Engländerbau and the parish church was rejected in a referendum in 1993. Adopting Snozzi's basic urban planning idea (slope foot development), the new state parliament building designed by Hansjörg Göritz (Hannover) was built between the administrator's house and the government building between 2002–07. The extension of the State Museum (1999–2003) by the architects Brunhart, Brunner, Kranz (Balzers) and the new archive and administration building (2006–09) by the architects Keller and Brander (Vaduz) complete the development at the foot of the slope.
Author: Michael Pattyn
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