From both the historic and the artistic point of view, the Hofburg in Vienna is one of the most important secular building complexes in Europe. As the seat of Austria’s dukes and archdukes, of the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian emperor it was at the heart of European politics from the 13th Century right through until 1918. This central position is reflected in the architectural development of the Hofburg, from the fortified castle of the Swiss Wing via the...

Volume III of the 5-volume publication series on the history of the building and function of the Vienna Hofburg deals with the multifarious history of planning and construction between the start of Joseph I’s reign (1705) and the death of the Emperor Franz II (I.) (1835). This ranges from the extension of the imperial residence in the High Baroque style to plans drawn up by the court architects Johann Bernhard and Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach or Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, via...

Volume II of the five-volume series of publications on the history of the building and function of the Vienna Hofburg analyses how from Ferdinand I up to and including Leopold I it developed to become the main central European imperial residence. The rewriting of the varied history of the building and functions of the continuously growing residence is accompanied by investigations of the representational practices of the Habsburgs. They are traced in the architecture and its decorative forms,...

The current volume of the publication on the history of the building and function of the Vienna Hofburg contains the results of research on the quadrangular castle of the late Staufer period through to the end of the Middle Ages when the Hofburg became the official residence of the Habsburg emperors. The Vienna Hofburg is primarily known to both experts and the public as an edifice and historical monument of the Baroque era and more recent epochs. Admittedly, historians were always aware of its...

Das umfassende Projekt zur Erforschung der Wiener Hofburg vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart wurde von der Abteilung Kunstgeschichte des Instituts für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen (IKM) der ÖAW durchgeführt. Seit 2004 forschten rund 30 Wissenschafterinnen und Wissenschafter aus den Fächern Kunstgeschichte, Bauarchäologie, Geschichte, Gartengeschichte, Theatergeschichte, Film- und Medienwissenschaft sowie Kulturwissenschaft. Untersucht wurden breit angelegte Themenkreise: Bau- und...