🌳 Johann Wenzel Bergl created rooms with fantastic illusionistic landscapes by order of Maria Theresa not only in Schönbrunn but also in the Vienna Hofburg. These originated around 1766. During Sisi’s time, the rooms were repurposed as a cloakroom. The rooms have been preserved to this day and are unique in their kind in Europe.
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💫 Have you ever seen this Imperial dining table from the time of Franz Joseph in Vienna? It can be admired in the dining room of the Hofburg. Three times a week official dinners took place here. The imperial family used to convene here every Sunday in a private circle. Every member of the family staying in Vienna had to attend; excuses were only accepted in exceptional cases. In contrast to the public dinners, at which the family kept a low profile, the private circle was very lively.
🤫 By the way, how the cloth napkins are folded is still a secret today.
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🏅The gym and toilet room next to her sitting room formed the centrepiece of Sisi’s apartment in the Hofburg, as she spent most of her time there. After getting up at 6 a.m., she devoted most of her morning routine to hair care and also performed small gymnastics exercises. The wall bars, the horizontal bar and the rings in the doorway to the Grand Salon have been preserved to this day.
🛁 Adjacent to the toilet room is Sisi’s bathroom, which is equipped with a bathtub made of galvanised sheet copper and the original linoleum floor.
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🗓️ Franz Joseph was a hard-working monarch whose day began at 3.30 am. In the course of his life, he received up to 260,000 people standing at a lectern in his audience chamber in the Hofburg. In keeping with his simple lifestyle, he slept in a brown, iron, portable bed after the imperial couple moved into separate bedrooms.
👸🏼 In his study, a portrait of Sisi with her hair down, painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, stands on an easel in front of his desk. Numerous photographs of the children and grandchildren hang on the walls.
✨ The Grand Salon served Franz Joseph as a reception room for family visits. A painting of the emperor in the regalia of the Order of the Golden Fleece hangs here, as well as a portrait of Crown Prince Rudolph, for whom he modelled shortly before his death.
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