Vienna Hofburg - Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum, Silver Collection

The decoration of the room is largely from the 18th century while the furnishings date from Franz Joseph’s time. Like all the rooms in the Hofburg it was heated by ceramic stoves. These stoves were originally stoked with wood by the “imperial-royal court stove-stokers” from outside the room via a “heating passage” that ran behind the walls of the room to avoid making the rooms dirty. Gradually from 1824 onwards a hot-air heating system invented by an Austrian scientist called Meissner was installed to supply the stoves with hot air.www.hofburg-wien.at | Download Tour-Guide (PDF)© by Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.