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443The Neugebäude is at right angles to the edge of the plateau and the ridge falling down steeply towards the Danube—and is composed of three principal sections. At its cen- tre a narrow, extremely elongated building consists of a central pavilion con- nected by huge arcades to two polygonal pavilions at either end. It is built on the edge of the ridge on a podium consisting of two stepped terraces above the lower gardens to the north of it, and is backed by the rectangular entrance courtyard, accessible through monumental entrance gates on either end: from Vienna on the west, and from Kaiserebersdorf to the east. At the bottom of the ridge a flower garden, the ‘Untere Blumengarten’, is situated between the terraces below the main building and a huge rectangular fishpond, which closes off the complex towards the north.20 In this garden the French humanist and diplomat Jacques Bongars (1546–1612), who visited the shifted to the other side of the print, some of its items are omitted or inscribed directly in the image, and a coat of arms is added to the left, but the image itself is identical in most essentials. 20 In the course of the rehabilitation of the complex the lower garden, which had long since disappeared, has now been replaced by a modern garden suggesting its original outlines. Figure 9.17 Matthäus Merian, ‘Eijgentliche Delineatio des Schönen Lusthauses genannt das Neugebäu’, bird’s-eye view from the north, engraving, 1649.