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The Palace of the Slavonian General Command in Osijek was built in 1723-1724 for the needs of the administration of the Slavonian Military Frontier, formed as a system of city-fortresses after the end of the great liberation war that ended in the Karlowitz Treaty (1699), and in which Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) played a key role. In keeping with its preeminent purpose as the seat of the Court Chamber and the Imperial War Council representatives, and of the Commander of Osijek, the monumental four-wing palace stands out with a richly diversified exterior accentuated by a portal with atlantes, and a complex interior organized around a vestibule with columns. These characteristics gave it an outstanding position in the context of kindred administrative and military buildings in the wider Central- European region, indicating that the origins of the design were in the Baroque architecture of Vienna. Archive and comparative research revealed that it was commissioned by the Commander of Osijek, General Maximilian Petrasch, a close collaborator of Prince Eugene of Savoy. The project itself emerged from the circle of Vienna-trained military architects and engineers engaged in work on the border city-fortresses of the Hapsburg Monarchy, whose fortification was supervised by Eugene of Savoy, as President of the Imperial War Council. |
