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Chapter 5310 99 Holzschuh-Hofer 2014(a), pp. 104–108; discussed below, Ch. 5.5.2. 100 Holzschuh-Hofer 2014(a), pp. 104–108. 101 Ibid., pp. 108–111; Kühnel 1956, p. 258. 102 Holzschuh-Hofer 2014(a), pp. 111–122; cf. below, Ch. 5.4; on the window surronds, see be- low, 5.6.2. in front of the entrance to the chapel, in the corner between south-west and south-east wings; this housed a monumental staircase of three flights, preced- ed by a huge square hall or landing giving access both to the chapel and to the royal apartment. The plans for this addition were made by Francesco de Pozzo and included an arcade on the ground floor carried on heavily bossed pillars or buttresses, which were not to the taste of some of his colleagues. This gave rise to an extensive debate, in which Ferdinand, at the time absent in Prague, actively participated; it will be briefly discussed later in this chapter.99 In the end Ferdinand decided to uphold Pozzo’s plans, the remains of which are still visible in the southwest corner of the Schweizerhof. The north-east wing functioned as ‘Frauenzimmer’, lodging Queen Anna and her household on the second floor, and the ‘Niederösterreichische Kammer’, the treasury of Lower Austria. Some of the damages it had suffered in the 1529 siege had been set in order already in the 1530s, but it was largely reconstructed in the mid-1540s. The Frauenzimmer provided a Chamber, a dining room and a recep- tion hall for the Queen herself, and was preceded by a new, monumental stair- case.100 It is not clear whether her later successor, Maximilian’s consort Maria of Spain, arrived in Vienna in 1551, used the rooms of her late mother-in-law; it was either extended with, or exchanged for an apartment installed for her on the second floor in the completely new-built north-west wing. This apart- ment, nearer to those both of her husband and her father-in-law, consisted of a larger space (‘lange Saal’), an (ante-) chamber, a dining room and a bedcham- ber. The other floors of this building housed several administrative offices, including a ‘Gwelbl’, a vaulted (strong-) room for the use of Leopold Heyperger, as ‘Burggraf’ the chamberlain responsible not only for the day-to day mainte- nance of the Hofburg, but also for the care of treasures and other valuables.101 The north-west wing provided the Hofburg with a new, monumental façade, provided with well-designed window-surrounds in the classical manner, deco- rated with the symbols of the order of the Golden Fleece [Fig. 5.80]. It also incor- porated the only entrance gate to the courtyard, now known as ‘Schweizertor’, which carries the date 1552 [Figs. 5.81–5.82]. Gate and window-surrounds are almost the only architectural elements of the sixteenth century in the Hofburg that have been preserved intact.102 The northwest wing also incorporated part of the remnants of the north tower, which had become unstable and had been partly demolished. During the reconstruction of this section a narrow gallery was