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up to 150 persons

176 m2 area

Imperial Hall

"More cultured than in Vienna"

up to 150 persons

176 m2 area

The walls of this unostentatious Late Renaissance room are dominated by fourteen portraits of Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors, hung there in the 19th century. Built in 1605, it was originally – like the later antechamber – a waiting-room for the no longer existing audience chamber of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, who built the Residenz.

The cast-iron stove is a rarity; dating from 1670, it is the oldest of the historical stoves in the Residenz. Until recently it could even be used for heating. The benches around it, painted in "peasant baroque" style and dating from the era of Prince-Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach (between 1709 and 1727), were intended for the footmen. The Kaisersaal, located centrally, is connected by passages with the Carabinierisaal, the Grüner Saal and the "Flood" corridor as well as with St Peter's Abbey. This made it suitable for banquets and concert performances.

A contemporary wrote: "At midday there was a banquet at the court, set in the Kaisersaal – not in the form of a horseshoe, but an ordinary long table with 39 laid places". And another: "Today [the company] dined in the Kaisersaal, where there were 3 tables […]; in the middle, below this table, were the musicians, namely 24 violinists playing various pieces. […] In a word, many cavaliers around here say that the entertainment here is more cultured than in Vienna."

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Rooms
Carabinieri Hall 525 170 396 123 114 376 525 50x12 640,80
Knights Hall 250 108 160 64 69 186 250 25x10 254,18
Conference Hall 160 76 99 40 44 120 160 14,94x12,82 189,26
Antecamera 60 27 55 34 21 56 60 10,05x9,85 99,19
Audience Hall 90 48 90 42 36 30 100 13,79x9,84 134,97
Throne Room 120 48 132 52 52 120 120 20,24x8,76 177,44
White Hall 120 48 108 48 42 96 120 19,46x8,80 171,48
Imperial Hall 150 89 88 56 48 88 150 19,42x9,11 176,35
Inner courtyard with arcades 525 - - - - - 525 - 1.070