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Location:
Europe,
Austria, Vienna
Category:
City View, famous Landmark
Description:
View of the Vienna State
Opera
Location Information:
The
building was the first major
building on the Wiener Ringstraße
commissioned by the controversial
Viennese "city expansion fund". Work
commenced on the building in 1861
and was completed in 1869, following
plans drawn up by architects August
Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard
van der Nüll, who lived together in
the 6. Bezirk. It was built in the
Neo-Renaissance style. This was the
first opera built in Vienna.
The Ministry of the Interior had
commissioned a number of reports
into the availability of certain
building materials, with the result
that stones long not seen in Vienna
were used, such as Wöllersdorfer
Stein, for plinths and
free-standing, simply-divided
buttresses, the famously hard stone
from Kaisersteinbruch, whose colour
was more appropriate then
Kelheimerstein, for more lushly
decorated parts. The somewhat
coarser-grained Kelheimerstein (also
known as Solnhof Plattenstein) was
intended as the main stone to be
used in the building of the opera
house, but the necessary quantity
was not deliverable. Breitenbrunner
stone was suggested as a substitute
for the Kelheimer stone, and stone
from Jois was used as a cheaper
alternative to the Kaiserstein. The
staircases were constructed from
polished Kaiserstein, while most of
the rest of the interior was
decorated with varieties of marble.
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