Little Gloriette
The Kleine Gloriette is a gloriette in the garden of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna .
architecture
The Kleine Gloriette is located in the middle of the wooded mountainside and near today's Maria-Theresien-Tor. The building was probably built around 1775 by Isidor Canevale as a viewing pavilion. It is tower-like and has two floors with balconies. The floor plan consists of a regular octagon with an attached staircase. The roof forms a relatively flat copper dome. The exterior color of this Gloriette is based on the castle: with the facade in Schönbrunn yellow and the shutters in Kaiser green .
The interior is decorated with a trompe l'œil architectural painting in the Rococo style, which opens up on the upper floor through a parapet into a painted sky. The building is usually closed, but is occasionally open to the public on occasions such as Monument Day .
Lower floor ceiling
Lower floor fountain
Lower floor mural painting
Upper floor deck
literature
- Eva Berger: Historic Gardens of Austria. Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930. Volume 3. Vienna: Böhlau 2004, ISBN 3-205-99353-5 , pp. 263-271.
- Beatrix Hájos: The Schönbrunn palace gardens. A topographical cultural history . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-98423-4 .
- Erwin Frohmann, Rupert Doblhammer: Schönbrunn. An in-depth encounter with the palace gardens . Ennsthaler, Steyr 2005, ISBN 3-85068-625-6 .
- Richard Kurdiovsky: The gardens of Schönbrunn . Residenz / Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7017-1411-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 38.3 " N , 16 ° 18 ′ 50.9" E