00:28İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
00:30So we are standing inside the State Hall of the Austrian National Library. This is a baroque library hall that
00:38houses about 190,000 books today. It was built in the 1720s, envisioned by the emperor Charles VI, who not
00:51only wanted to build a hall for the books, but also to represent the Habsburg family.
00:58So the frescoes in the room and also the statues are closely related to the glory of the family of
01:07Habsburg.
01:08It's one of the largest library halls built in that period. And from the beginning, it already housed very special
01:19collections, such as that of Prince Eugene of Savoy, a famous strategist and military man, but also an avid book
01:29collector who had a huge collection
01:33of manuscripts and printed books. And some of his collections you can see all around me here in the oval
01:41part of the State Hall.
01:43The library itself goes back to a much earlier time than the State Hall. The Habsburg family had a private
01:52collection of manuscripts already in the Middle Ages.
01:57And then in the 16th century, they founded a real court library that other people could also come and use.
02:05But this library didn't have a dedicated building up to 1723, when they started to build this library hall.
02:16Well, if you look at the fresco above me, there's actually a depiction of the library itself. So the building
02:25process and generosity of the House of Habsburg to donate a library is depicted in the fresco here.
02:46And then, you know, open the hall.
07:07M.K.
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