Ehrenhof (castle)

Courtyard of the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin

The Court of Honor (French. Cour d'honneur ) is from the Corps de Logis and the side wings on three sides enclosed reception court , which in the French palace of the Renaissance was developed and especially for symmetrical palaces of the Baroque is characteristic. The fourth side of the courtyard is often bordered by a grid or a wall with a gate in the central axis. The name was derived from the fact that access to the castle via the courtyard was usually only permitted to special dignitaries.

Courtyards of honor were later implemented as a representational element in other secular buildings . The naval school Mürwik received a courtyard of honor on the waterfront, on which originally stood a statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II , who in 1910 had the building erected in the style of the Marienburg Castle for the Navy . Another example is the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin , which was built during the National Socialist era . The new Federal Chancellery in Berlin also has a courtyard to receive state guests.

In Düsseldorf , an exhibition complex from the 1920s, which is now used as a cultural forum, bears the name “Ehrenhof” .

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  The Palace of Versailles had in 1722 two honor farms

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  Courtyard of the Mannheim Palace

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  Court of Honor of Weissenstein Castle near Pommersfelden

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  Courtyard of the New Castle in Grodno

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  Courtyard of the Naval School Mürwik , the Red Castle from 1910

and display information about the image

360 ° panorama of the courtyard of Schönbrunn Palace

literature

• Barbara Schock-Werner : Court of Honor. In: Horst Wolfgang Böhme , Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner (Hrsg.): Dictionary of castles, palaces and fortresses . Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-010547-1 , p. 115, doi: 10.11588 / arthistoricum.535 .
• Luisa Hager: Court of Honor. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History . Volume 4. 1956, Col. 868-874 (on- line ).
• Rudolf E. Huber, Renate Rieth (Red.): Glossarium Artis. Trilingual dictionary of art. Volume 9: Cities. City maps, squares, streets, bridges. Saur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-598-10460-X , p. 96 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 534.