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The last wing of the Hofburg to be built - completed in 1913 - was the Neue Burg , a piece of pure bombast designed in heavy neo-Renaissance style by Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer half a century earlier. Semper planned another new palatial wing to mirror the Neue Burg and enclose Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square). In the end, time (and money) ran out, leaving Heldenplatz as a wide, slightly meaningless, expanse, which nonetheless affords a great view across to the Rathaus and Parlament buildings on the Ringstrasse. The Neue Burg is now home to the Nationalbibliothek's main reading room, an offshoot of the Naturhistorisches Museum and three departments of the Kunsthistorisches Museum ( www.khm.at ). For the Viennese, though, it's forever etched in the memory as the scene of Hitler's victorious return to Vienna on March 15, 1938, when thousands gathered here to celebrate the Anschluss. Hitler appeared on the central balcony of the Neue Burg and declared: "As Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German nation and the German Reich I hereby announce to German history that my homeland has entered the German Reich."
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