Rediscovered
Victoria, the old emperor’s favorite carriage!
For the first time in more than 100 years, the Imperial Carriage Museum in Schönbrunn is displaying the vehicle that Emperor Franz Joseph particularly enjoyed using in imperial weather during the last years of his life.
The carriage known as the "Leib-Victoria" seemed to have been lost forever after the end of the monarchy. However, the Wagenburg team managed to rediscover it from a collection of ruined stud vehicles.
After the end of the Austrian monarchy, the ceremonial carriages of the imperial family were handed over to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where they now form the core collection of the Vienna Carriage Collection. The numerous open summer carriages of Emperor Franz Joseph I, on the other hand, were not preserved as they were considered historically irrelevant. In the 1990s, however, it emerged that some of these vehicles had been preserved in the former Federal Institute for Horse Breeding in Stadl-Paura in Upper Austria in a heavily modified condition.
After years of painstaking work, a much-altered, inconspicuous carriage from this collection was identified as Emperor Franz Joseph's "Leib-Victoria No. 10", which was believed to be lost, and its original appearance from 1896, hidden under numerous layers of overpainting and rust, was brought back to light. The result of this project can now be viewed in the Wagenburg.
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