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447The Neugebäude with stone, and which was to receive water carried to the Neugebäude from a mountain a mile and a half away. It is recognizable in Merian’s print, where it is identified as ‘Ein kleiner Graben umb den Thiergarten’. Bongars paid special attention to the water tower, of which he both gives its German name, and an explanation of its functioning. Not shown on Merian’s print is a fourth component, the service court, a complex of asymmetrically placed secondary buildings immediately to the east of the principal block, along the road of access from Ebersdorf. Some of these certainly date back to the original construction: they can be seen in a topographical print from 1715 by Johann Adam Delsenbach, after a design by the architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach [Fig. 9.22–9.23]. They includ- ed several buildings, and a tennis court surrounded by high walls, which appar- ently was roofed over only in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Its long north side is flanked by an arcade opening over a set of five stone-lined fish ponds or aquaria (not represented in Delsenbach’s print) [Fig. 9.24]. More to the east a complex of other constructions included the still existent monu- mental stable [Fig. 9.25]. Figure 9.23 View of the service buildings east of the main block of the Neugebäude (tennis court, stabling, fishponds, perhaps a menagerie (detail of Fig. 9.22).