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Schoenbrunn Castle Vienna

Product ID: 635

19,90 EUR

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Weight: 0.48 kg
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scale 1:300
length 63 cm
width 24 cm
height 11 cm
degree of difficulty 2
number of sheets 8.5

Beautiful Castle in Vienna / Austria

The castle beautiful well is part of the most important cultural monuments of Austria. Alone the park with his numerous buildings, fountains and figures and the zoo are part of the whole monument protected ensemble apart from the castle. The area was appointed world cultural heritage by UNESCO at the end of 1996.

The castle was in the possession of the habsburgischen reigning family from 1569 and changed into the possession of the republic after the end of the monarchy. The complete estate was described as a "Katterburg" since the beginning of the 14th century and served as a hunting lodge. Emperor Matthias shall have discovered the beautiful fountain at one of his hunting excursions in the year 1612 which gave the estate his name later according to a legend. The empress had a summer residence in this place which was called beautiful well and confessed for his busy social life set up at 1642.

After the destruction by the Turks today's building was built toward the end of the 17th century. By up to the middle of the 18th century it was redesigned again and again. Over 1500 persons were accommodated on castle beautiful well at that time. The facilities of a castle theater by the empress Maria Theresia also belonged to reorganisation works. After the death of Maria Theresias castle remained uninhabitedly beautiful well and was used as a summer residence again only for the beginning of the 19th century.

The original deer park from the time of the Katterburg was converted to the "pleasance beautiful well" as of 1695. The castle grounds attained his form of today by Maria Theresia. The garden consists of the park beautiful well in the valley of the Wienflusses, a palm house and a big zoo which exists for 250 years and is regarded as the oldest of the world with that.

Within the years 1805 and 1809 beautiful well was occupied by Napoleon twice. The castle got thus also political meaning. Prussia and France signed a peace treaty here in the year 1805. In the year 1809 France and Austria made the "peace of beautiful well" here. In this contract, among other things Austria lost Triest and parts of Carinthia and Croatia. After Napoleon's fall the Viennese convention was also held for the political reorganization of Europe here within the years 1814-1815.

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