Bellaria
Bellaria was the name given to a porch of the Leopoldine wing of the Vienna Hofburg , which was built around 1741 at Maria Theresa's request and had a representative balcony in the style of the time. The only direct access to the Hofburg was via a long ramp from Heldenplatz to Bellaria , because Maria Theresa appreciated being able to be driven in front of her private apartments without having to climb stairs. She could set the carriages down on the ramparts in front of the Bellaria, through which she got directly to the imperial apartments on the second floor.
Today there are only ground level entrances. The existing "Bellariator" was only built in the second half of the 19th century after the castle wall and Paradeisgartl were demolished in the course of the construction of the Ringstrasse .
Today's Bellaria street takes its name from the now defunct Bellaria. The area around the intersection of Bellariastraße and Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring is often called "Bellaria" in the vernacular.
A type of moth from Borneo has a reference to the Bellaria in its scientific name : Catada bellaria . The two researchers from Vienna who published their first publication justify this naming with the fact that they remembered Bellaria with nostalgia during their research in the British Museum (Bellariastraße is at the back of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, and a popular Viennese coffee house there also bears this name).
literature
- Harry Kühnel: The Hofburg, Vienna: Zsolnay 1971, p. 82
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Lödl, Petra Paumkirchner: Catada bellaria sp.n., a new hypenine noctuid species from Borneo (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Hypeninae) . In: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Ed.): Quadrifina. Bulletin for the Study of Lepidoptera. Volume 4, year 2001. ISSN 1028-6764 ZDB -ID 1470243-5 . P. 84.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '30.1 " N , 16 ° 21' 50.7" E