Neue Burg

The Neue Burg on Heldenplatz is the most recent wing of the Hofburg in the Austrian federal capital, Vienna. The Neo-Baroque building was erected from 1881 to 1913 by Franz Joseph I to designs by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer as part of the monumental Kaiserforum. Of the planned three-wing complex only the south-eastern Burggarten wing was carried out; the north-western Volksgarten wing and the central throne-room wing remained unbuilt. The Kaiserforum is thus unfinished to this day.

The Neue Hofburg houses the reading rooms, the Papyrus Museum and the House of Austrian History of the Austrian National Library, as well as the Weltmuseum, the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, the Imperial Armoury and Hunting Collection and the Ephesos Museum of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Machine-translated from “Neue Burg” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Neue Burg ranks #3,588 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #90 of the 201 mapped in Austria. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,649 times in the last 60 days, more than 62% of the atlas. 35 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Vienna, 1 km away. It is stop 14 of 28 on the Wachau Danube route, Melk to Vienna. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.

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