Schlosspark Schönbrunn

You’re in the Schönbrunner Schlosspark, the landscaped setting for Schönbrunn Palace—Vienna’s great Baroque summer residence of the Habsburg rulers. The palace complex belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Palace and gardens of Schönbrunn,” tying this green space to a three-century story of courtly power and taste. The name *Schönbrunn*, meaning “beautiful spring,” points to an artesian well whose water the court consumed. In 1569, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased the floodplain beneath a hill and turned it into a fenced hunting ground, with animals ranging from pheasants and ducks to deer and boar. Over the next century, Eleonora Gonzaga—an avid hunter—received the area as her widow’s residence, and from 1638 to 1643 she added a palace to the earlier Katterburg mansion, with the name “Schönbrunn” appearing in 1642. …

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