Neuigkeiten aus dem Hofmobiliendepot:
Folded Beauty
Autumn Exhibition
8.9.2010 - 23.1.2011
Press Release June 2010
General Press information
Imperial Furniture Collection
Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
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The Laxenburg Room with a folding games table, a neo-Gothic chair and an occasional table
Table top with inlay of agate, jasper, lais lazuli and marble
"Laxenburg" Room
The Franzenburg in the park at Laxenburg was built as a garden house in the shape of a Gothic stronghold between 1798 and 1801. Its interior was designed for a legendary knight. Visitors can see him on paintings and glass windows, depicted as Emperor Franz II/I, who had the palace built, and as Emperor Maximilian I, who is often referred to as the last knight.
In addition to Neo-Gothic design elements, the rooms were decorated with original Renaissance ceilings, historic leather wall-coverings and antique furniture.
The rooms of the Franzenburg were thus also a museum of old German monuments, with a selection of especially national – i.e. Austrian – examples of the German Renaissance period.
Between 1820 and 1836, four big halls were added to the palace: the Habsburg Hall, a new Armoury Hall, the Lorraine Hall and the Hungarian Coronation Hall. With these new halls the Franzensburg became a monument of the House of Habsburg.
In the second half of the 19th century, the romantic stronghold was redecorated under the direction of Albert Ilg, a curator at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. His work underlined the character of the Franzensburg as a museum.
The Franzensburg in the park at Laxenburg may therefore be called the first Imperial furniture museum. Several pieces of this furniture were stored in the Depot of Court Movables after 1901 and can now be presented in the permanent exhibition.
