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Imperial Coach

official state car

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ604179 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Imperial Coach (in German: Imperialwagen) is the gilded state coach that was used as a coronation coach for the Imperial and Imperial Austrian courts in Vienna, Austria. It is now kept in the Imperial Carriage Museum at Schönbrunn Palace.

See also

List of state coaches

References

Further reading

Video of the Imperial Coach (2017)

Martin Haller: Pferde unter dem Doppeladler. Olms/Verlag Stocker, Graz 2002, ISBN 978-3487084305

Oswald M. Klotz: Der letzte einer Zunft: Krönungskutschenbauer. In: Die Presse. K.u.k. Hoflieferanten heute (X)/14. Februar, 1977.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2002, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1735. The account is most persuasive where Imperial, Coach and official can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Imperial Coach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.