Palate of Rohan of Strasbourg

The Palais of Rohan is located in the downtown area of Strasbourg, the Low-Rhine, beside the cathedral and of its museum, the Musée of Work Notre-Dame.

History

This splendid building of the 18th century was built between 1728 and 1741 by the architect Robert de Cotte for the bishop Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan to replace the preceding episcopal palate. It is built in the traditional style , become with the mode after the French conquest of Strasbourg. Since 1704 Armand-Gaston de Rohan-Soubise makes buy several buildings close to the cathedral. In 1727 it makes demolish the old buildings on the edges of the Ill and makes build a superb palate. Robert de Cotte makes the plans, Laurent Gourlade is section engineer. He will be replaced later by Joseph Massol. The buildings started into 1732 will be finished ten years later. You penetrate in the main courtyard while passing by a monumental gate in triumphal arch surmounted by statues representing the Clemence and the Religion. The main courtyard gives on the left and on the right on the administrative buildings and utilities of the palate. The principal body is on two floors, the ground floor was reserved for the bishop, the stage with his personnel. The principal frontage is with ten seven axes, surrounding central body with four an imbedded and capped columns of a triangular pediment. In the west a large library with large installed bay is which attenuates the symmetry of the unit. The frontage on court is more intimate and becomes animated pilasters. Two short wings in return shelter the halls of entry. In north, vis-a-vis the cathedral, the monumental gate with columns opens between two sumptuous houses of angle. One estimates the cost of the unit at a million books, furniture with three hundred and thousand.

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