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Schönbrunn Castle
Schönbrunn may refer to: *Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria *Schönbrunn Zoo in Schönbrunn Palace gardens * Schönbrunn Station of the Vienna U-Bahn *Schönbrunn (Baden), a municipality in Rhein-Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany *Schönbrunn (Fichtelgebirge) Schönbrunn () is a village in the heart of the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany. Since 1975 it is part of the town Wunsiedel. It has about 1,400 inhabitants, including the village Furthammer. It was founded around 1200 as a small settl ..., a village in the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany * Schönbrunn im Steigerwald, a municipality in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany * Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial in Ohio, United States {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace (german: Schloss Schönbrunn ; Central Bavarian: ''Schloss Scheenbrunn'') was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers, located in Hietzing, Vienna. The name ''Schönbrunn'' (meaning “beautiful spring”) has its roots in an artesian well from which water was consumed by the court. The 1,441-room Rococo palace is one of the most important architectural, cultural, and historic monuments in the country. The history of the palace and its vast gardens spans over 300 years, reflecting the changing tastes, interests, and aspirations of successive Habsburg monarchs. It has been a major tourist attraction since the mid-1950s. History In 1569, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased a large floodplain of the Wien river beneath a hill, situated between Meidling and Hietzing. The former owner, in 1548, had erected a mansion called ''Katterburg''. The emperor ordered the area to be fenced and put game there such as pheasants, ducks, deer and boar, in orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Tiergarten (German for "zoo") may refer to: * Tiergarten (park), an urban public park in Berlin * Kleiner Tiergarten, a smaller public park in Berlin * Tiergarten, Berlin, a locality within the borough of Mitte which includes the park * Berlin-Tiergarten station Berlin Tiergarten is a railway station on the Berlin Stadtbahn line in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. It lies between the stations of Zoologischer Garten and Bellevue on the Straße des 17. Juni in the Hansaviertel locality of the Mitte bor ..., a railway station adjacent to the park * "Tiergarten" (song), a song from Rufus Wainwright's album ''Release the Stars'' ** ''Tiergarten'' (EP), a digital EP with a remix of the song * "Tiergarten", an instrumental track, by Tangerine Dream, from their 1985 album, ''Le Parc'' {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönbrunn (Vienna U-Bahn)
Schönbrunn may refer to: *Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria *Schönbrunn Zoo in Schönbrunn Palace gardens * Schönbrunn Station of the Vienna U-Bahn *Schönbrunn (Baden), a municipality in Rhein-Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany *Schönbrunn (Fichtelgebirge) Schönbrunn () is a village in the heart of the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany. Since 1975 it is part of the town Wunsiedel. It has about 1,400 inhabitants, including the village Furthammer. It was founded around 1200 as a small settl ..., a village in the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany * Schönbrunn im Steigerwald, a municipality in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany * Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial in Ohio, United States {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönbrunn (Baden)
Schönbrunn () is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It consists of the villages Allemühl, Haag, Moosbrunn, Schönbrunn and Schwanheim. It is situated in the southern part of the Odenwald hills, south of the river Neckar. Schönbrunn lies about 7 km southwest of Eberbach and 18 km east of Heidelberg. Transport The nearest train stations are in Hirschhorn and Eberbach, on the Neckar Valley Railway. Buses of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN) is a transport association covering parts of the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in south-west Germany. Founded in 1989, it initially served the Rhein Neckar Area, but ... connect Schönbrunn with Eberbach, Mosbach and Heidelberg. References External links * Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Populated places on the Neckar basin Populated riverside places in Germany {{RheinNeckar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönbrunn (Fichtelgebirge)
Schönbrunn () is a village in the heart of the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany. Since 1975 it is part of the town Wunsiedel. It has about 1,400 inhabitants, including the village Furthammer. It was founded around 1200 as a small settlement near a castle. The oldest surviving building is the church, built around 1200. Schönbrunn has a number of small businesses and less than 10 farms. In 2007 Schönbrunn won the gold medal in a beauty contest "''Unser Dorf hat Zukunft - Unser Dorf soll schöner werden''" for villages in Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan .... External links * http://www.schoenbrunn-im-fichtelgebirge.de (in German) Wunsiedel {{Wunsiedeldistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schönbrunn Im Steigerwald
Schönbrunn im Steigerwald ((); officially: ') is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Burgebrach. Constituent communities Schönbrunn’s main and namesake centre is the biggest of its ''Ortsteile'' with a population of 916. The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: *Frenshof 174 *Fröschhof 10 *Grub 129 *Halbersdorf 91 *Niederndorf 82 *Oberneuses 83 *Steinsdorf 329 *Zettmannsdorf 199 :as of: 31 December 2004 The community also has 5 traditional rural land units, known in German as ''Gemarkungen'', named Grub, Halbersdorf, Schönbrunn im Steigerwald, Steinsdorf and Zettmannsdorf, the same names as 5 of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a ''Gemarkung'' to be named after a town or village lying nearby). History The Bamberg bishop Berthold von Leiningen (1257–1285) acquired the castle and the village of Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
