Built in 1775 as the last
building constructed in the garden, this Gloriette serves as both a focal point
and a lookout point for the garden. It
was used as a dining hall and festival hall as well as a breakfast room for
emperor Franz Joseph I. Nowadays, the dining hall has a café in it, and on the
roof, an observation platform overlooks Vienna. The Gloriette was destroyed in
the Second World War, but had already been restored by 1947, and was restored
again in 1995.
The Gloriette is dedicated
as a Monument to Just War, that which leads to peace. The front face bears the
following inscription:
IOSEPHO II. AVGVSTO ET
MARIA THERESIA AVGVSTA IMPERANTIB. ERECT. CIƆIƆCCLXXV. ("Erected under the
reign of Emperor Joseph II and Empress Maria Theresa, 1775.") The way of writing of the
year uses a Latinization of the Greek letter Φ (phi) for 1000.
Short notes on the main
palace:
Schönbrunn Palace (Schloss
Schönbrunn) is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in Vienna,
Austria. At the end of the 17th century
Emperor Leopold I commissioned the gifted Baroque architect Bernhard Fischer
von Erlach to built a palatial hunting lodge for the heir to the throne. On the
site of the old imperial château de plaisance a splendid edifice was to arise. Half a century later under
Maria Theresa, Schönbrunn Palace was to become the magnificent focus of court
life. From that time onwards it played host to the leading statesmen of Europe.
This postcard came from
Carmen (19 March 2014) Direct Swap Postcrossing.
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