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The Gloriette

            The Gloriette was built in 1775 as the last building of the garden according to plans by Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf of Hohenberg as a "temple of fame", at the same time the main viewpoint (point de vue) of the garden and viewpoint over it. Empress Maria Theresia decided to build the gloriette: "There is an old gallery of stone pillars and cornices at Neugebau (Schloss Neugebauude), which does not use anything ... to let them break off from there and bring them to Schönbrunn." The gallery and the columns are made of hard, white kaiserstein and were reused in the Gloriette as well as the bull heads and other parts. These columns and "other large stonework" were worked by the working community of the stonemasons Bartholomäus Pethan and Antonius Pozzo and their people in the Kayserlichen Steinbruch at Leithaberg.
The main dimensions are 84.3 m in length, 135.3 m in steps, 14.6 m in width and 25.95 m in height.
The Gloriette later served as a dining and festive hall, as well as a breakfast room for Emperor Franz Joseph I. The dining room was used until the end of the monarchy, today there is a café in it; On the roof is a lookout platform with a view over Vienna. The sculpture jewelery is by Johann Baptist Hagenauer. The Gloriette was heavily damaged in the Second World War by a bomb hit, but it was already restored in 1947. In 1995 it was restored. ( Wikipedia ).
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Taken in: Österreich / Wien / Wien / Gloriette (show map)

Taken on: August 2, 2017

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