Triumphal Gate
The Triumphpforte is one of the most famous sights of Innsbruck . It is located at the southern end of today's Maria-Theresien-Straße , at the time the southern exit of the city.
This triumphal arch was built in 1765 on the occasion of the wedding of Archduke Leopold , the second son of Empress Maria Theresia and Franz Stephan of Lothringen , to the Spanish Princess Maria Ludovica on August 5, 1765. Since Leopold's father Franz Stephan unexpectedly shortly after the wedding on 18 August 1765 died, mourning motifs on the occasion of his death were also processed in the Triumphal Gate. The south side shows motifs in the sense of the wedding of the young couple, the north side those which point to the death of the emperor.
In Innsbruck , contrary to common practice, the decision was made to build the Triumphal Gate not from wood but from stone. Blocks from Höttinger breccia , which came from the broken suburban gate at the exit of the old town into today's Maria-Theresien-Straße, were reused. Constantin Walter and Johann Baptist Hagenauer were responsible for the execution . In 1774, the reliefs created by Hagenauer in Stuck were made in Sterzinger marble by Balthasar Ferdinand Moll .
The relief decorations show both state symbols of the Habsburg monarchy as well as personal and event-related representations:
- the Austrian Archduke's hat with the Order of the Golden Fleece
- the Bohemian Wenceslas crown with the Hungarian Order of St. Stephen donated by Maria
- a representation of Empress Maria Theresia and Franz Stephan with a laurel wreath and portrait medallions of the two
- a profile of the wedding couple Archduke Leopold and Princess Maria Ludovica
- Portraits of Duchess Karoline of Lorraine and Duke Karl of Lorraine , brother of Emperor Franz Stephan
The wedding couple
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Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 45 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 41" E