Schönbrunn Palace

Schönbrunn Palace

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Area：Vienna West station Sightseeing　Genre： World Culture Heritage

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World Culture Heritage

One of the best European Palaces

Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in modern Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna. The palace and gardens illustrate the tastes, interests, and aspirations of successive Habsburg monarchs.
The Cultural World Heritage Site of Schönbrunn Palace is Austria’s most frequently visited tourist attraction. In the palace the residential and state rooms with their original furnishings and decorations convey an authentic impression of the imperial lifestyle. The park and gardens surounding the palace make Schönbrunn a unique synthesis of Baroque art.

The Palace

The central palace is 175 meters (574 ft) wide and has a symmetrical Baroque facade. All buildings were painted in a typical light yellow/ochre pattern, a combination that was soon copied by many residences around the country.

Interior

The Rococo style interior of the Schönbrunn apartments is much more luxurious than the rather sober apartments in the Hofburg.
Some, in particular the Millionenzimmer (Millions Room), are particularly sumptuous.

Gardens

The sculpted garden space between the palace and the Sun Fountain is called the Great Parterre. The French garden, a big part of the area, was planned by Jean Trehet, a disciple of André Le Nôtre, in 1695. It contains, among other things, a maze.

The complex however includes many more attractions: Besides the Tiergarten, an orangerie erected around 1755, staple luxuries of European palaces of its type, a palm house (replacing, by 1882, around ten earlier and smaller glass houses in the western part of the park) is noteworthy. Western parts were turned into English garden style in 1828–1852. At the outmost western edge, a botanical garden going back to an earlier arboretum was re-arranged in 1828, when the Old Palm House was built. A modern enclosure for Orangutans, was restored besides a restaurant and office rooms in 2009.

Vienna Zoo

Vienna Zoo is a zoo located on the grounds of the famous Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Founded as an imperial menagerie in 1752, it is the oldest zoo in the world. Today Tiergarten Schönbrunn is considered and regards itself as a scientifically administered zoo which sees its main purpose as a centre for species conservation and general nature conservation as well as in the fulfillment of the education mandate given to it by the legislation. The still preserved buildings of the baroque era, which have been complemented in the last years by elements of modern zoo architecture, convey still a good impression of the 18th century menagerie-buildings after the Versailles model.

General Information

Name	Schönbrunn Palace
Address	Schönbrunner Schloßstr.
Tel	（01）81113-239
ＨＰ	http://www.schoenbrunn.at/de/publicdir/
Opening Hours	1st April to 30th June:8.30 am to 5.30 pm 1st July to 31st August:8.30 am to 6.30 pm 1st September to 31st October:8.30 am to 5.30 pm 1st November to 31st March:8.30 am to 5.00 pm
Closed	Open All Year Round
Acess	Underground: U4, Schönbrunn station Trams: 10 and 58, Schönbrunn station Bus: 10A, Schönbrunn station