The laying out of the garden at the Neugebäude in Vienna: opportunities and dangers of a reconstruction

• Autores: Géza Hajós, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 7, Nº 2, 1987, págs. 186-191
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 27 and 28 April 1987 an international academic symposium took place in Vienna. The immediate occasion for this conference was the ambitious scheme of the City of Vienna to reconstruct the Neugebaude and turn this large, half-ruined ensemble into a spectacular exhibition centre. The Neugebäude is indeed - as all the participants of the conference could see there and then - a very important creation of the late sixteenth century. The largest and most modern garden layout north of the Alps, this construction was probably designed between 1565 and 1600 according to the plans of Jacopo de Strada. It had been intended as a "Casino per piacere", an antiquarium for the Emperor Maximilian II, besides serving to keep wild animals, to cultivate exotic and native plants and also for purposes of pure pleasure. The layout consisted of two flower gardens with fountains and a "walk", a pond, and a large fruit and game park.