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Chapter 10518 the Stallburg exterior, a plain stucco surface with stringcourses marking the levels, and heavy quoins accentuating the corners. The monumental entrance gate was topped by a coat of arms flanked by heraldic lions, and marked by a square clock tower rising above it. Again like the Stallburg, three sides of its interior courtyard appear to have been faced with open arcades on all three levels. Its arches were carried on piers, which originally probably were articulated by a similar order of shal- low pilasters or lesenes in masonry or stucco: at least that is suggested by the Hauptmann Georg Paradeiser in 1601 (Wien, Historisches Museum, inv.nr. 96.646) (both commanders had been guilty of too easily surrendering a stronghold to the Turks). Samuel van Hoogstraten’s view of the inner courtyard of the Vienna Hofburg (1652) in the Kunsthis- torisches Museum, inv.nr. GG-1752. Figure 10.4 The Amalienburg, built as a residence for Archduke Ernest in the Hofburg at Vienna, detail of a print depicting the execution of Georg Paradeiser, 1601.