Napoleon installed in the palace his headquarters between 1805 and 1809, being seen also in many events in modern history: from the sessions of the Congress of Vienna in 1814 and 1815 to Kennedy talks Kruchev 1961.
The uniqueness of the complex and its conservation status led UNESCO to declare it a World Heritage Site in 1996.
Charles VI showed no particular interest in Schönbrunn will be your daughter, Maria Teresa, who became the summer residence palace of the Habsburgs would retain until the end of the monarchy in 1918. During the reign of Maria Theresa proceeded to a significant expansion of the Palace (1744-1749) directed by Nikolaus von Pacassi, who had also worked for the imperial family in Hofburg. Most of the interior has its origins in this time and is one of the few existing samples of so-called Austrian rococo. By 1765 Johann Ferdinand
Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, which is considered as a representative of the first stage of classicism, takes over as the construction of the palace. His most significant is the Gloriette supplementing the large castle park. Between 1817 and 1819 Johann Aman holds a unification and simplification of the facade according to the dictates of classicism. From that time yellow color is also so typical of the facade, which until the twentieth century would be one of the identities of the Habsburg monarchy, for all official buildings were painted with the same color.
Haupttor The main entrance flanked by two obelisks, Schosstrasse Schönenbrunner opens at the end of which a wrought iron gate gives access to the rococo Ehrenhof , large courtyard, closed at the sides by eighteenth-century low-rise buildings in the center and chaired by two fountains decorated with allegorical figures of 1776.
The strict symmetry of the architecture perfectly complements the gardens ( Schönbrunner Schlosspark ) filled with fountains and statues, surrounded by vegetation and trails. The gardens, designed in 1705 and 1706 by Jean Trehet, are formed by a labyrinth of complicated travel, obelisks, lakes and roundabouts.
The Schlosspark is separate from the two long buildings gardens, Kammergarten right and left Kronprinzengarten. The Blumenparterre, the center continues to Neptunbrunnen (Neptune fountain) in 1780, decorated with statues of Franz Anton Zauner and surrounded by trees. To the right of the source is the labyrinth of Irrgarten. Nearby are the Najade-Brunnen (sources of Naiads) WC built by Beyer in 1771, and the Schooner Bruner (Beautiful Fountain), which gives its name to the residence. Here is the sen Egyptian obelisk (Obelisk) and Ruine Romanische , both work Hetzendorf. In front of the high hill is the Gloriette , designed by Ferdinand von Hohenberg, built in 1775. Behind is the Fasangarten.
The gardens were completed in the eastern sector Botanischer Garten, botanical garden created in 1753 by A. von Steckhoven as Dutch garden, the Palmenhaus (Palm House), which acts as a tropical greenhouse (1883), the Tiergarten , Schönbrunn Zoo founded in 1752 by Franz Stephan of Lorraine, husband of Maria Theresa, octagonal-shaped pavilion, and the former Sonnenuhrhaus (Butterfly House).
Imperial Apartments has 40 rooms in total and 1441, which testify to the splendor of the everyday life of the court at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. The interiors are a true treasure with frescoes, trompe I'oeil paintings, marquetry, lacquer, stucco and mirrors, tapestries, marble and glass.
rococo style used by Nikolaus Pacassi dominates the decor in the official salons. Highlight the blanks, sometimes decorated with gold ornamentation. The rooms are sometimes very sumptuous, as Millionenzimmer , fig lined wood and adorned with Persian miniatures, and also there are very simple, as the rooms occupied by Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. The Grand Gallery
was used for the imperial banquet, and since 1994, hosts official receptions. The Circular Chinese Room was used by Maria Teresa to hold private conversations with his chancellor. Other important facilities include the Blue Chinese Room, rather than abdication of Charles I in 1918, that of Old Lacquer where Teresa lived to be a widow, the Great Hall Rosa, which is named by the scenery Switzerland and northern Italy, painted by Joseph II.
Ehrenhof To the right is the Schosstheater (Palace Theatre), cosntruido between 1774 and 1759 as Pascassi draft, amended in 1767 by JF Hetzendorf.
The Wagenburg, Chariots Museum, where vehicles are set out in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many of which belonged to members of the royal family and famous people of the Empire. In the beginning was the site of the Winter Riding School. As the impressive imperial hearse, black (Schwarzer Leichenwagen des Wiener Hofes), built between 1876 and 1877 in neo-baroque and used at the funeral of Empress Elizabeth, Francis Joseph and the former Empress Lita (1989, the red hearse (Roter Leichenwagen), with which were taken to the crypt of the Capuchin not reigning members of the House of Habsburg, and the great Imperial Chariot.
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