The largest and probably best-known gloriette is in the
Schönbrunn Palace garden in
Vienna. Built in 1775 as the last building constructed in the garden according to the plans of
Austrian imperial
architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg as a "temple of renown" to serve as both a focal point and a lookout point for the garden, it was used as a dining hall and festival hall as well as a breakfast room for emperor
Franz Joseph I. The dining hall, which was used until the end of the monarchy, today has a
café in it, and on the roof an observation platform overlooks Vienna. The gloriette's decorative
sculptures were made by the famous
Salzburg sculptor Johann Baptist von Hagenauer. The gloriette was destroyed in the
Second World War, but had already been restored by 1947, and was restored again in 1995, when its central part was closed with glass panes and converted to a café. The gloriette is dedicated as a
Monument to Just War, that which leads to peace. With the succession to the throne of
Maria Theresa came first the
War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and later the
Seven Years' War (1756–1763). The front face bears the following inscription: IOSEPHO II. AVGVSTO ET MARIA THERESIA AVGVSTA IMPERANTIB. ERECT. CIƆIƆCCLXXV. ("Erected under the reign of
Emperor Joseph II and Empress Maria Theresa, 1775.") An essential part of the inscription is the addition of AVGVSTO and AVGVSTA, used as a link to the first Roman emperor and state god
Augustus by his heirs and successors as finally the
Habsburgs in their functions as emperors of the
Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The year 1775 is written in Roman numerals following the
apostrophus notation. The gloriette served as the sixth '
Pit Stop' on
The Amazing Race 23. ==Other architectural gloriettes==