The Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace complex also includes a palace park based on designs by Fischer von Erlach. In 1695, Jean Trehet finally began work on the plans for the gardens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, it wasn\u2019t until Empress Maria Theresa made Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace her summer residence in 1742 and Emperor Franz I commissioned Adrian van Steckhoven and Richard van der Schort to build the Dutch Botanical Garden that the palace park grew to its present size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The palace park, which was opened to the public in 1779 by the \u201creform emperor,\u201d Joseph II, and has since been an important recreation area in Vienna, offers a number of attractions such as the \u201cGreat Parterre\u201d including the \u201cNeptune Fountain,\u201d which has been in operation since 1780; the artificial \u201cRoman Ruin,\u201d built by Hetzendorf von Hohenberg in 1778 and based on the Temple of Vepasian and Titus; the \u201cObelisk Fountain,\u201d finished in 1777 and also designed by von Hohenberg; the \u201cFair Spring;\u201d the \u201cSmall Gloriette\u201d on the wooded hillside near the \u201cMaria Theresa Gate\u201d entrance; and the \u201cGloriette\u201d on the hill overlooking the \u201cNeptune Fountain.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also worth seeing are the \u201cColumbary,\u201d built in 1750; the \u201cPalm House,\u201d which Emperor Franz Joseph I commissioned his court architect Franz Xaver Segenschmidt to build in 1880; the \u201cSundial House\u201d from 1904; the \u201cPrinces\u2019 Play Pavilion\u201d (since 2013, \u201cLandtmanns Jausen Station\u201d snack bar); the \u201cMaze\u201d with its labyrinth; the \u201cCrown Prince Garden;\u201d and the \u201cJapanese Garden.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 19th<\/sup> century, Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace Park was also used for the military education of the princes: for this purpose, a play, exercise and drill ground was created for the emperor\u2019s children in what is known as the \u201cMeidling Depression\u201d between \u201cLichte Allee\u201d and \u201cFinstere Allee,\u201d including a miniature bastion built specifically for honing the young princes\u2019 military skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The buildings of the palace park were not chosen at random, but served as symbolic representation of the fulfilment of the Roman Empire, the successors of which the Habsburgs considered themselves as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: after glorious victories (\u201cGreat Gloriette\u201d), the imperial dynasty as Augustus\u2019 successor rules over the world until the end of time (\u201cObelisk\u201d), while its enemies are doomed to defeat (\u201cRoman Ruin\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Empress Maria Theresa made Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace her summer residence in 1742, she had a arden designed by the most famous garden architects of the era. It was also used for military education of the princes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-orangerie.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}