WHS+-+Palace+and+Gardens+of+Schonbrunn+(Austria)

=PALACE AND GARDENS OF SCHONBRUNN=

b. Criteria to get selected to be a site-
=== Palace of Schonbrunn is well impressive palace of it’s king in Europe. It’s symbols is power and influences over a long period. The garden can’t separate from the palace because they both fit very well by ways that can’t explain,... ===
 * 1) ===to represent human creative ===
 * 2) ===to show an important change of human values, over a time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, arts, town-planning or landscape design; ===
 * 3) ===to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological in human history; ===
 * 4) ===to show example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture, or human interaction with the environment ===
 * 5) ===to show events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. ===
 * 6) ===to contain natural beauty ===
 * 7) ===to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going development of landforms, or significant features; ===
 * 8) ===to be outstanding examples representing evolution and development (fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals) ===

c. The purpose of world heritage site is to show people the natural beauty and cultures, beliefs about each contry.
=== d.  ﻿  === === e. The site of Schonbrunn palace, was sold in the mid-16th century by the Klosterneuburg monastery to Emperor Maximilian II, who developed it as a hunting lodge. The buildings were badly damaged when Vienna was fired by the Hungarians in 1605; it was not until 1622 that they were restored by Emperor Ferdinand II. ===

After his death in 1637 the Katterburg became the dowager estate of his widow, Eleanora of Gonzaga. The name was changed to Schonbrunn (Beautiful Spring) in 1642
=== In 1683 Vienna was surrounded by the Turks, who were finally crushed, but not before they had wrought great destruction in the surroundings of the city, including Schonbrunn. During the great rebuilding that followed the siege, Emperor Leopold I ask the Italian-trained architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach to design a new building, Grand-Duke Joseph. In this he was highly successful: his design was greatly defensive ===