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up to 160 persons

254 m² area

The Knights' hall

In grand style

up to 160 persons

254 m² area

The Knights' hall is a magnificent example of baroque and classicistic staging. It served as an additional room for the knights of the prince's bodyguard, as well as being the anteroom to the prince-archbishop's state apartment, and was a sumptuous setting for transacting affairs of state.

Here the status of the visitor was the deciding factor; the more important and the higher his rank, the further he was permitted to penetrate into the chambers, and the rooms became proportionally smaller. Like so much of baroque symbolism, which over the centuries has disappeared from our collective memory, at that time the messages were quite clear to people. The allusions were understood; people knew exactly how they were supposed to comport themselves at court.

The stories represented on the ceilings were to be interpreted as well-directed statements from the ruler. Under Prince-Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach (1709–1727), Johann Michael Rottmayr was commissioned to make a series of paintings illustrating the career of Alexander the Great, starting in the Knights' hall and accompanying the marvelling viewers through the subsequent rooms. The archbishops liked to attribute to themselves the chivalrous virtues of the great ruler and conqueror.

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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