From the 18th cen­tu­ry to 1918, Schon­brunn was the res­i­dence of the Hab­s­burg emper­ors. It was designed by the archi­tects Johann Bern­hard Fis­ch­er von Erlach and Nico­laus Pacas­si and is full of out­stand­ing exam­ples of dec­o­ra­tive art. Togeth­er with its gar­dens, the site of the world‘s first zoo in 1752, it is a remark­able Baroque ensem­ble and a per­fect exam­ple of Gesamtkunst­werk.