Schonbrunn Palace
Schloss Schönbrunn—built as the Habsburgs’ main summer residence—begins with water and hunting rather than ceremony. In 1569, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II bought a floodplain beneath a hill and ordered it fenced as a recreational hunting ground, stocked with game such as pheasants, ducks, deer, and boar, while smaller areas held “exotic” birds like turkeys and peafowl and even fishponds were excavated. The name Schönbrunn, meaning “beautiful spring,” is traced to an artesian well whose water the court consumed; the name appears on an invoice in 1642, and Eleonora Gonzaga—who loved hunting—later bequeathed the area as her widow’s residence. From 1638 to 1643, a palace was added to the earlier Katterburg mansion, but the building you know is distinctly Baroque and largely shaped later. …
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