Meaning of Hofburg | Babel Free

Definitions

The principal residence of the Habsburg dynastic rulers (and, later, of the president of Austria), located in Vienna; (metonymically), the Habsburg regime.

historical

Examples

“A week later, via the prescribed channels, he requested an audience with His Majesty, and one morning, three weeks after that, he found himself face to face with His Supreme Commander-in-Chief in the Hofburg.”

“In the 1780s however these were just a couple of strands in the mayhem of Josephine reform, with decrees streaming out of the Hofburg […] at an astounding rate.”

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