So about the Palace. It’s in town and not on the scale by any means of the one just outside Vienna– Schonbrunn. And it doesn’t much look like a palace, but it is…
It looks like a shopping area in the swanky part of London, the West End. Think Fortnam and Masons. And the most notable feature is the royal chapel, which has as its own most notable feature some remarkable bronze statues, including King Arthur, no less, and Theoderic. These were designed for casting by Albrecht Durer, more noted for his woodcuts and paintings. All of these statues, 28 of them, are part of the funeral cortege for Emperor Maximilian I and of his first wife Mary of Burgundy.
There are of course plenty of religious artifacts and pictures to see, as well as the chapel itself.
How’s your Latin?
Notice the symbol of the Austrian Empire on the front gate… the one headed eagle signals just Austria, the double-headed eagle is the earlier one when it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not just anyone could enter or go to church here.
Just outside the palace is his highness (literally) on a horse.
Now about that hunting lodge of Kaiser Karl…
He used to shoot birds and deer, and perhaps collect glass birds….
Among the numerous wars, the one that concluded in 1809 produced a war hero Andreas Hofer, who is memorialized at this hunting lodge…
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