Orangery (Darmstadt)

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The orangery in Darmstadt is a small castle designed by the architect Louis Remy de la Fosse , built between 1719 and 1721. It served as a winter hostel for Sardinian or Sicilian orange trees in the surrounding park. It was built as an eleven-axis building with a two-storey hall open to the south and surrounded by single-storey rooms. In 1714 the garden and building came into the possession of the House of Hessen-Darmstadt. The adjoining orangery park was designed by Ernst Ludwig Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt by the court gardener JK Ehret from Heidelberg . The symmetrical baroque complex consists of triple tiered garden parterres, broad axes with fountains and bordering avenues. The sandstone gate of the former market palace forms the northern end.

After a fire in 1774, in which the orangery building burned down completely, it was rebuilt by the Bessung master builder Johann Martin Schuhknecht by 1782 . The aim was to restore the building as true to the original as possible, but the roof was increased by 1.5 m, making the building a lot more massive than de la Fosse planned.

The public only got access to the park around 1802. In the years that followed, more and more public events took place in the orangery garden. Previously, the site and the orangery were primarily used by court society as a place for parties and gatherings. Public use was maintained when the garden and the orangery were leased to the city of Darmstadt for 99 years in 1925. After the Second World War , the orangery temporarily served as alternative quarters for the Darmstadt State Theater after the city ​​theater was destroyed . The files of the renovation work carried out by the city for this purpose up to 1972 are in the Darmstadt City Archives. However, the extensions were removed after the State Theater moved out in 1972 in order to restore the original state.

The orangery building in the Darmstadt district of Bessungen is now used for concerts and conferences. There is a restaurant in an outbuilding.

Events

Every third weekend in September, the Bessunger Curb takes place in the Orangery Park with the Bessunger Merck run of the TG Bessungen .

Impressions from the Orangery Park

  • Orangery garden (around 1884)

  • Orangery (2004)

  • Orangery (2005)

  • Orangery (2008)

  • Orangery (2008)

  • Orangery (2009)

  • Orangery (2013)

  • Orangery (2017)

See also

Web links

Commons : Orangery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rebekka Friedrich: #HistoryMondayDA: Changing history of the Bessunger Orangery. In: Darmstadt City Archives. Accessed January 31, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Arcinsys. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Orangery. Accessed January 31, 2019 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 28.8 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 11.2"  E