Franzensburg Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

On an island in the lake of the Laxenburg park, south of Vienna, the Franzensburg is an imaginary fortified castle built from scratch at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century for Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire, who became Francis I of Austria. Conceived as a monument to the glory of the House of Habsburg, it brings together authentic elements — woodwork, stained glass, ceilings, an entire chapel — taken from medieval and Renaissance buildings. It is one of the earliest major examples of Romantic Gothic Revival architecture in Central Europe. It is reached by a ferry or a footbridge, and it can be visited with a guide, in the heart of a landscape park much frequented by the Viennese.