General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891)
The Prague State - anniversary exhibition (Czech: Jubilejní Zemská výstava ), in 1891 Holešovice was an exhibition of the Czech business community of the Danube monarchy, especially in the industry. The designed with big ambitions show, which was under the National Czech thoughts, the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 took over as striking example. She presented the Czech industry and agriculture, crafts, services, and arts and science and technology and celebrated the national traditions.
The Jubilee Exhibition of 1891 took the centenary of the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia as an opportunity - a coronation, to which it is well known, never came under Franz Joseph I.. She enriched Prague to a number of impressive and curious buildings, some of which are preserved to this day: for example, the Petrin funicular to the Petřínberg and the local, the Eiffel Tower in Paris on a scale of 1:5 replicated Petrin lookout tower. ( The inspiration for the construction of this tower came from the " Club of Czech tourists "). The construction of the tower then took six months, after two years of repair work it was opened to the public again in 2002. In Letna Park is located since 1898 as a garden restaurant in the historicist Hanavský Pavilion at the anniversary exhibition.
However, the most important architectural relic of the Jubilee Exhibition of 1891, the Industrial Palace Průmyslový palác, on Vıstaviště Praha ( Prague Exhibition Grounds ). The Grade II listed building in neo-baroque with hints of early Art Nouveau impressed with a 238 m long steel arch construction and a 51 m high tower in the middle. The Prague architectural historian Zdeněk Lukeš referred mainly to the importance of metal scaffolding structure of the architect Bedřich Münzberger who had converted the plan for a brick building in a combined construction of glass and metal under the influence of the Paris World Exhibition of 1889 at the last moment. The entire left wing of the Industrial Palace was a major fire in October 2008.
Other preserved buildings of the Prague Jubilee Exhibition include the location near the observation tower maze. In this are still a mirror maze and a diorama painting depicting the battle against the Swedes on the Charles Bridge in the Thirty Years' War.
The Prague Jubilee Exhibition was a great success with Czech audiences, but was largely boycotted because of their national orientation of the Czech Bohemian German industry. The landowner Charles Prince Schwarzenberg and Prague industrialist Francis of ring Hoffer (Mechanical Engineering) and Emil von Kubinzky (textiles) did not support this rejection front.