Palais Pettenkofer

The Palais Pettenkofer stands in the eastern old town of Landshut, a city in Lower Bavaria. It is a three-storey town mansion built early in the 17th century along Schirmgasse, close to the Martinskirche. Scholars believe Eberhard Adolph von Muggenthal, who owned the house from 1626 to 1655, may have commissioned the building around 1626. The mansion gained its grand rococo façade around 1770 under Johann Wilhelm von Pettenkofer. Above the main door he placed a coat of arms celebrating his marriage to the noblewoman Kammerloher from Irnsing. By 1870 the building had passed into private hands and became the Hofbräuhaus Landshut, a local brewery inn. Later it housed an Italian restaurant before falling out of use. Visitors today see a dignified six-bay façade rising above Schirmgasse. The rococo plasterwork frames tall windows and the stone portal with its carved coat of arms. Behind the front door the former halls and salons still show traces of their grander days, while the narrow lane keeps the quiet atmosphere of an old quarter.