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Baroque Vienna The defeat of the Where to See
Turkish Siege
Turks in 1683 was Baroque Vienna
The Turkish threat to Vienna ended in 1683 when crucial, not only
Kara Mustapha’s forces were repelled. Under Karl VI for Vienna, but for The Baroque is everywhere in
the city expanded and the Karlskirche and the Belvedere Central Europe, Vienna. Hardly a street in the
palaces were constructed. Around the Hofburg, mansions which was spared old city or inner suburbs is
without a Baroque mansion or
the prospect of
for noble families sprang up, built by architects such Ottoman rule. church. Fine examples of Baroque
as Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (see p149) and architecture include the Belvedere
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (see p154). Vienna was palaces (see pp154–9), the
transformed into a resplendent imperial capital. Extent of the City Prunksaal (p104), the Karlskirche
(pp148–9), the Leopold inischer
1700 Today Baroque Trakt in the Hofburg (pp98–9), the
statues Winter Riding School (pp100–101)
Winter Palace of Prince Eugene and the Bohemian Court
J B Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lukas von Chancery (pp86–7). Beautiful
Hildebrandt designed the Winter Palace (see p82) for Baroque houses line many
Prince Eugene, hero of the Turkish campaign. streets, including Naglergasse
(p96) and Kurrentgasse (p88).
Elaborate
window hoods
Plague
This lithograph recalls the
plague of 1679, which killed Baroque
around 30,000 Viennese.
porticos
Prince Eugene’s
entourage
Turkish Bed
Ornamented with
martial emblems, this
bed was design ed for
Prince Eugene in 1707.
The Prunksaal (1721–6) was
built by J B Fischer von Erlach.

Dome ornamentation on the
Coffee Houses Karlskirche (pp148–9)
The first coffee houses Prince Eugene
opened in Vienna in the Best remembered for his
mid-17th century and role in defeating the
they have been a prized Turks, Prince Eugene
institution ever since. showed great military
prowess in the ensuing
Baroque Architecture decades, and died
Baroque architecture was in 1736 laden
at its most prolific in Vienna Window hood on the Zwölf with honours.
in the early 18th century. Apostelkeller (p80)
Trautson Palace (see p118)

1683 Turkish siege of 1713 Karl VI proclaims Pragmatic
Vienna by 200,000 soldiers, 1700–14 The war of the Sanction, allowing succession
under Kara Mustapha, from Spanish Succession through the female line Statue of Maria Theresa holding
14 July to 12 September 1719 Karlskirche begun Pragmatic Sanction
1680 1690 1700 17101710 1720 1730
1679 1683–1736 Prince Eugene 1716 Lower 1724–6 Prunksaal
Plague in of Savoy wins more victories Belvedere and Upper
Vienna over Turks and French, Kara Mustapha completed 1722 Vienna Belvedere
restoring Austria’s fortunes The war of the Spanish becomes an completed
Succession: Battle of Blenheim 1713–14 Last plague in Vienna archbishopric
Upper Belvedere

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