Palais Schwargenberg Opened 1697 Austria Hotel And Restaurant Unopened Matchbook For Sale

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Palais Schwargenberg Opened 1697 Austria Hotel And Restaurant Unopened Palais Schwarzenberg is a palace in Vienna\'s 3rd district of Landstraße, Austria. It is one of the most important baroque garden palaces in Vienna.

The designer Im Palais Schwarzenberg Hotel is a 5-star property set next to Albertina. The venue opened its doors in 1697.

Kunsthistorisches Museum is a 15-minutes’ walk away. Guests will be 15 minutes\' walk from Natural History Museum .

The gastropub Salm Brau Klosterbrauerei can be reached within a 5-minute walk. Rennweg train station is 650 meters from the hotel and Schwechat International airport is a 25-minute drive next-door neighbor of Prince Eugene of Savoy′s Belvedere Palace is the Palais Schwarzenberg, a smaller, but still very opulent palace in the style of a \"Garden Palais\". The Palais Schwarzenberg is typical for the period after the Second Turkish Siege and can be tracked back to 1697. In this year, Count Heinrich-Franz of Mansfield and Prince of Fondi hired the star-architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt to design himself a fancy summer palace outside the city walls of Vienna.

The area had been looted and flattened by the Turks some 14 years earlier and so land was relatively cheap; as a powerful statesman and army officer of the victorious Austrian armies, the Prince of Fondi could afford direct rivalry with Prince Eugene. The stretch of land that he bought boardered to Eugene′s and the Belvedere Palace was seen as Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt′s masterpiece by Vienna′s ruling class. Now he was in charge with beating himself. The plans were approved and the construction started, but a few years later, when the building was still not finished, the Prince of Fondi died.

In 1715, the property was sold to another influential statesman, Prince Adam Franz Karl of Schwarzenberg. With the financial powers of the Schwarzenberg family, the Palais was finished as a gem of Baroque representation - the gardens in particular were of rather exceptional extravagance. Lukas von Hildebrandt′s nemesis and senior at the court, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was hired to design the outlay of the garden and a sophisticated water-supply system, operated with the first steam engines of the Habsburg Empire. Needless to say, the Palais and gardens of Palais Schwarzenberg became a key-stage for courtly life in Vienna.

In the 19th century, most of the Baroque parks of Palais Schwarzenberg were strongly altered into what is now anEnglish-style landscape garden - no geometric formality, but an idealized, pastoral nature-concentrate in the middle of Vienna. When a waterpipeline from the Styrian Alps was finished to supply Vienna with fresh, Alpine spring water, a fountain was built right in front of the Palais Schwarzenberg - the Hochstrahlbrunnen.

Palais Schwarzenberg Today: Hotel, Restaurant & more...

Today, the Palais Schwarzenberg is home to a few companies, the Schwarzenberg family when they are in Vienna, a hotel, a restaurant and the Swiss Embassy. Neither parks nor palace are therefore open to the public, but even from walking around or as a guest of the restaurant / hotel, you can discover some interesting details. For example the many references to the defeat of the Turkish army - decapitated Turks were a popular reference to this finest hour in Austrian history and are part of the coat of arms of the Schwarzenbergs.

At the Palais, you find them as ornaments in the garden fence. Another claim to fame is that the gardens of the Palais Schwarzenberg contain the only vineyard of central Vienna. In 2007, the current head of the Schwarzenberg family, Karl Schwarzenberg, became foreign minister of the Czech Republic and likes to emphasise how Bohemian he is (despite of being dual citizen and having spent most of his life in Austria).

Schwarzenbergplatz is a square in Vienna, Austria. It is actually more like a small, open street than a square, and it runs between the Kärntner Ring section of the Ringstraße and Lothringerstraße. Travelling south, the street, Schwarzenbergstraße, becomes Schwarzenbergplatz after passing Kärntner Ring.

Schwarzenbergplatz then continues briefly until it becomes Rennweg Straße as it passes by the large enclosed parks of Belvedere-Garten and the Palais Schwargenberg, and the Schwarzenberggarten to the west. A large equestrian statue of Austrian Field Marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, who fought with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars, is on display. Schwargenberg Opened 1697 Austria Hotel And Restaurant Unopened Matchbook

Size: 2.75 x1.375w inchesCondition: Item has very minor age related wear. View photos for details.
Category: Hotel And Restaurant
Manufacturer: N/AStatus: Un-Struck - UnopenedStrike: Bottom
For sale is an original vintagematchbook as shown above. Please view images of the item to determine it\'s condition.
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