Lantern Room

The name of this room is said to derive from the lantern-bearers who in the times before electric light was installed in the palace used to wait here in order to light the way for members of the imperial family and the court household after dark.

The pendulum clock above the fireplace is the only ornament in this plainly decorated room.

The room is remarkable for the precisely worked mouldings of the marble doorframes. These go back to designs by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and were part of the original interiors of Joseph I’s hunting lodge.