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South-east wing of the New Castle

The Neue Burg is part of the Vienna Hofburg and the monumental Imperial Forum , which Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer planned and partly built for Emperor Franz Joseph from 1869 .

history

The Neue Burg (center right in the picture) would have formed the Kaiserforum with a twin wing opposite

After the two court museums had been under construction since 1871, in 1881 the emperor approved the construction of the "Hofburg wing against the Kaisergarten", as the New Castle was officially called. After Hasenauer's death, his pupils Bruno Gruber and Otto Hofer from 1894–97, and civil servants Emil von Förster and Julian Niedzielski more or less luckily in 1897–99 , until Friedrich Ohmann was appointed Hofburg architect in 1899 . Among other things, he was able to build the glass house in the Burggarten .

The construction has become very expensive (also) due to the local conditions. The foundations had to be dug up to 25 m deep, as the location was on the loosened area of ​​the former city ​​ditches and underground defenses. The porous Leitha sand-lime brick from winds at the lake was taken for these foundations . The particularly stressed parts of the load-bearing stone facade are made of hard Wöllersdorf stone . The base consists of the white limestone from Duna-Almás near Süttö, west of Esztergom in Hungary . The facing of the masonry consists of chalk- karst limestone from Marzana in Istria , from the island of Brač , Croatia . Numerous locksmith and blacksmith works were created by Alexander Nehr .

After Emperor Franz Joseph had appointed his nephew and heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este as protector of the castle construction in 1906, Ohmann was replaced by Ludwig Baumann , who continued the construction until 1923, but was no longer able to complete it.

Sculpture jewelry

Statue “Bajuware” by Anton Brenek

The facade facing Heldenplatz is adorned with 20 statues of figures from Austrian history, which were created from 1895–1901 according to Albert Ilg's image program (list from left to right):

  1. Johann Scherpe : Markomanne
  2. Wilhelm Seib : Roman soldier
  3. Anton Brenek : Bajuware
  4. Carl Kundmann : Messenger of Faith
  5. Johann Koloc : Slav
  6. Edmund von Hellmer : Franconian Count
  7. Rudolf Weyr : Magyars
  8. Viktor Tilgner : Crusaders
  9. Josef Valentin Kassin : Sailor
  10. Stefan Schwartz : Knight
  11. Edmund Hofmann von Aspernburg : Magister
  12. Hugo Haerdtl : Merchant
  13. Emmerich Alexius Swoboda von Wikingen : Citizens
  14. Werner David : miner
  15. Anton Schmidgruber : Landsknecht
  16. Franz Koch : Wallenstein soldier
  17. Anton Brenek : Pole 1683
  18. Richard Kauffungen : Citizens of Vienna 1683
  19. Anton Paul Wagner : Liberated Farmer
  20. Johann Silbernagl : Tyrolean 1809

Todays use

The ballroom wing with the 1,000 m² ballroom is part of the Hofburg conference center.

A large part of the New Castle is used by the Austrian National Library. This is where the library's reading room and its papyrus collection and papyrus museum are located .

In addition, several collections of are the Kunsthistorisches Museum in the Neue Burg accommodated: the Ephesus Museum , the Collection of Arms and Armor (one of the largest weapons collections in the world), the collection of old musical instruments , the archive of the museum and in de Corps Logis the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna .

On November 10, 2018, the House of Austrian History was opened in the Neue Burg. Its first exhibition Departure into the Unknown - Austria since 1918 focuses on the hundred-year history since the establishment of the republic.

literature

  • Günther Buchinger, Gerd Pichler and others: Dehio Vienna. I. District - Inner City . Berger. Horn / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85028-366-3 , pp. 453-464
  • Margaret Gottfried: The Vienna Imperial Forum. Utopias between the Hofburg and the Museumsquartier . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99196-6
  • Alphons Lhotsky : The building history of the museums and the New Castle . Ferdinand Berger publishing house, Vienna 1941

Web links

Commons : Neue Burg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Robert Seemann, Herbert Summesberger: Wiener stone walking paths, the geology of the big city . In: The New Hofburg . Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85447-787-2 , pp. 33-36
  2. ^ Dehio Vienna. I. District - Inner City , Horn / Vienna 2007, p. 459
  3. orf.at: House of History opens with free admission . Article dated November 10, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018.
  4. The House of Austrian History (hdgö) opens on November 10, 2018! . OTS bulletin dated May 4, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 19 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 53 ″  E