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restored by Franz Anton Minoritenkirche was restored
Maulbertsch (1769). The fine to its original Gothic style,
statues, including the likeness of when Maria Theresa’s son,
Karl VI in the hall, are the work Joseph II (see p30), made a gift
of Paul Strudel (1648–1708) and of the church to Vienna’s Italian
his brother Peter (1660–1714). community. The church retains
a fine west portal (1340) with
statues beneath traceried
g Burgkapelle canopies; the carvings above
the doorway are modern.
Hofburg, Schweizerhof. Map 4 D1 &
5 B4. Tel 5339927. % Herrengasse. The interior of the church
Open 10am–2pm Mon & Tue, 11am– is unexpectedly bright and
1pm Fri. Closed Public holidays. & 8 large and contains a mosaic
^ Vienna Boys’ Choir:Jan–Jun & Sep– copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s
Dec: 9:15am Sun (book via website). Last Supper. Napoleon
& ∑ hofmusikkapelle.gv.at Bonaparte commissioned
Giacomo Raffaelli to execute
From the Schweizerhof, steps this work as he proposed to
lead up to the Burgkapelle, or substitute it for the original
Hofburg Chapel, originally No. 4 Minoritenplatz in Milan and remove the real
constructed in 1296 but painting to Paris. Following
modified 150 years later. On l Minoritenplatz Napoleon’s downfall at
Sundays, visitors can hear the Map 2 D5 & 5 B3. % Herrengasse. Waterloo in 1815, Raffaelli’s
Wiener Sängerknaben, the version was bought by the
Vienna Boys’ Choir (see p41). At No. 1 Minoritenplatz is the Habsburgs. In the south aisle
The chapel interior has Gothic Baroque-style State Archives is a painted statue of the
carvings and statuary in building (the archives are no Madonna and Child (dating
canopied niches, and boasts longer housed here), built from around 1350), while at
a bronze crucifix (1720) by onto the back of the Bunders- the same spot in the north
Johann Känischbauer. kanzleramt in 1902. There are aisle is a faded frag ment of
a number of palaces around a 16th-century fresco
h Spanish Riding the square. No. 3 is the former of St Francis of Assisi.
Dietrichstein Palace of 1755,
School an early building by Franz
Hillebrand. It now contains
See pp100–101.
the offices of the Federal
Chancellor and the Foreign
j State Apartments Office. No. 4 is the side of the
and Treasury Liechtenstein Palace on
Bankgasse (see p106). The mid-
See pp102–3. 17th-century Starhemberg
Palace is at No. 5. Now housing
ministry offices, it was the
k Bundeskanzleramt residence of Count Ernst
Rüdiger von Starhemberg, a
Ballhausplatz 2. Map 1 C5 & 5 B3.
Tel 531150. % Herrengasse. @ 1A, hero of the 1683 Turkish siege
2A. Closed to the public. (see p29), when he led the
Austrian forces within the city.
The Bundeskanzleramt (1717–
19), the Austrian Chancery
and Foreign Ministry, was z Minoritenkirche
designed by Johann Lukas von Minoritenplatz 2. Map 1 C5 & 5 B3.
Hildebrandt (see p154) and was Tel 676 6264113. % Herrengasse.
expanded to its present size in Open 9am–6pm daily.
1766 by Nikolaus Pacassi. Major
events that shaped Austria’s This ancient church was
history have taken place here, established here by the Minor
including meetings of the friars in around 1224, although
Congress of Vienna (see p32) in the present structure dates
1814–15, the final delib erations from 1339. The tower was
in 1914 that led to the outbreak given its odd pyramidal shape
of World War I, and the murder during the Turkish siege of 1529,
of Chancellor Dollfuss by Nazi when shells sliced the top off Gothic statue (c. 1400) of Leopold III in the
terrorists in 1934 (see p38). the steeple. In the 1780s the Burgkapelle

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