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313Imperial Architect: Background 104 Holzschuh-Hofer 2014(a), pp. 122–124; Ferdinand’s youngest son, Archduke Charles, was old enough for his own household, and by 1560 had been provided with separate lodgings in the house of Count Salm, in the direct vicinity of the Hofburg, whereas the Archduch- esses were lodged in a house in the Burggasse. It seems likely that they had inhabited the Frauenzimmer before that, as a reference in 1548 to ‘der jungen Kunigin Zimer’ (ibid., p. 96 and note 135) can hardly refer to Maria of Spain, who would arrive in Vienna only three years later. It was not unusual to refer to Ferdinand’s children with a royal title (f.i. Seisen- egger’s portrait of Archduchess Eleonora, afterwards Duchess of Mantua, as a child, kmh, Gemäldegalerie 872; cf. Heinz/ Schütz 1982, cat nr. 65, pp. 98–99 and ill. 56.). 105 Jeitler/ Martz 2014 188–192; Kühnel 1956, pp. 258–259; Holzschuh-Hofer 2014(c). 106 Francolin 1561. overlooking the Vienna suburbs and the countryside to the west. This so-called ‘Kindertrakt’ contained the ‘Zimer unnd wonungen <…> für den Khu. Mt. Khinder’, the lodgings of ‘the children of the Royal Majesty’. It is not clear whether this refers to the youngest daughters of Ferdinand i or to the children of Maxi- milian and Maria, which seems more likely.104 It can hardly refer to Maximilian himself, though he did in fact inhabit the principal apartment on the first floor, which communicated directly with his father’s in the adjoining section of the Alte Burg. Begun in 1553, the Kindertrakt was almost completed when Strada arrived in Vienna early in 1558; the architect is not mentioned, but we know that Pietro Ferrabosco was again responsible for the decorative painting of its six principal rooms, a sumptuous decoration suitable to the apartment of the heir to the throne. In the 1530s the damage to the gardens of the Hofburg had been restored. Two modest, enclosed ‘Lustgärten’, communicating by means of a stairway, were complemented by a larger ‘Irrgarten’ or labyrinth. These were located between the Hofburg and the church of St. Michael towards the east and the Augustinian monastery towards the south. They contained a ‘Ballhaus’ (a cov- ered tennis-court), a bath and a pond or reservoir to keep fresh fish. The garden was separated from the town partly by a high wall and partly by the Augustin- ergang, a gallery carrying a covered passage connecting the Hofburg with the Augustinian monastery, the church of which served as court church (the Burg- kapelle being too small to hold a significant congregation). In the 1540s a new Ballhaus was constructed in the north-east corner of the garden, along the Burggasse; after Ferdinand’s accession to the Empire this was connected to the north-east corner of the Alte Burg by a building housing his Kunstkammer, his collections objects of particular scientific or artistic value.105 Almost nothing of these additions and adaptations has been preserved un- altered, if at all, but some idea is given by the illustrations in Hans von Fran- colin’s Thurnier Buech Warhafftiger Ritterlicher Thate[n], so in dem Monat Junii des vergangenen LX Jars in und ausserhalb der Statt Wienn <…> gehalten.106