Palais Preysing

[2] In 1723, Joseph Effner received a commission from Count Johann Maximilian of Preysing-Hohenaschau(1687-1764) to build a four-story city palace with a facade that has a width for nine window frames.

In addition to richly furnished living quarters, a chapel and a ballroom, the palace also included an impressive staircase.

[4] The Palais Preysing was destroyed in World War II and then reconstructed in the 1950s with the ground floor redesigned for shops.

[2] The mansion is situated behind the Feldherrnhalle at Odeonsplatz, the little alley behind the Palais Preysing connecting the Residenzstrasse and the Theatinerstraße is called Viscardigasse (after Giovanni Antonio Viscardi), but it used to be known by the locals as "Drueckebergergasse".

Many people practiced a kind of passive resistance by making a detour down the Viscardigasse, to avoid passing the Feldherrnhalle and having to salute.