Jägersburg Castle and Palace Museum
The Jägersburg Castle and Palace Museum is a local museum in the Jägersburg district of Homburg . It was founded in 1984 by the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Jägersburg and is housed in Gustavsburg , an old Stauferburg .
Admission is free. The museum is open every Sunday and public holiday from May to October.
The museum collections
Celtic times
Numerous finds were recovered from the surrounding barrows. The museum shows a cross-section of these artifacts dating from 600 to 80 BC. BC , as well as finds from Gallo-Roman times.
Hattweiler Castle / Gustavsburg
The core of the collections, however, are the Dukes of Zweibrücken , to whose domain the place belonged at the beginning of the 15th century. There are replicas of the Greinberg collection (originals in the Heidelberg Castle Museum ), which contains almost all portraits of the dukes in addition to painters from Zweibrücken, such as Ziesenis and Mannlich in the rooms and illustrate the recreational aspect of the place, which has been around since the 15th century served the rulers to relax. Replicas of famous pictures by Mannlich can be found in the gallery, including his self-portrait (original in Ludwigshöhe Palace, Edenkoben), the ducal family painted in the Bouché style and the portrait of Duke Christian IV.
Jagdschloss Jägersburg
The true-to-life model of the former hunting lodge of Duke Christian IV., Of which Goethe already reported, shows the splendor of a bygone era. Since no plans of the “fairytale castle” (according to Goethe) have survived , etchings and two watercolors by Leclerq (replicas of the Ermer family) from that time are particularly important. They served Marcel Graf and his son Paul as a template for the model. The architectural historian Ralf Schneider drew the corresponding plans for this.
Archival collection / seal collection
About 30,000 sheets of documents that accompanied the development of the place and were sealed by well-known authors are here next to an extensive collection of seals from feudal lords who had direct contact with Jägersburg. This also includes the seals of the kings of Sweden, who temporarily had the say in Jägersburg.
Web links
- Gustavsburg in Jägersburg on the website of the city of Homburg
- Jägersburg Castle and Palace Museum. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2007 ; accessed on December 19, 2018 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 14 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ E