Carolinenburg

Sophie Karoline von Brandenburg-Kulmbach, namesake

The Carolinenburg was an 18th century park in the east of the Aurich Castle in the East Frisian district town of Aurich in Lower Saxony , of which nothing has survived today. The name of the Carolinenhof shopping center, which opened on March 3, 1983, and the Fischteichweg are reminiscent of the park.

history

According to the reformed clergyman and East Frisian homeland researcher Otto Galama Houtrouw , Prince Georg Albrecht (r. 1708 to 1734) probably had the Carolinenburg built and named after his wife Sophie Karoline von Brandenburg-Kulmbach . The prince also had a "fairly large pleasure house " built in the park. In the immediate vicinity of the park was the small fish pond.

Carl Edzard , the last East Frisian prince from the house of Cirksena, died on May 25, 1744 . King Friedrich II of Prussia then asserted his right of succession, which was regulated in the Emden Convention . Friedrich gave Carl Edzard's widow, Sophie Wilhelmine von Brandenburg-Kulmbach-Bayreuth, the entire interior of the palace as an apartment as well as the princely gardens, i.e. the Carolinen and Julianenburg for free use.

Individual evidence

^ Otto Galama Houtrouw: East Frisia. A historical and local hike towards the end of the princely period , Volumes 1 and 2, Aurich 1889 and 1891. P. 118.
^ Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Perizonius : History of East Frisia. Edited from the best sources . 4 volumes. Risius, Weener 1868–1869, (reprint: Schuster, Leer 1974, ISBN 3-7963-0068-5 ). P. 383.

53.467037 7.481161Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 1.3 " N , 7 ° 28 ′ 52.2" E

[1] Otto Galama Houtrouw: East Frisia. A historical and local hike towards the end of the princely period , Volumes 1 and 2, Aurich 1889 and 1891. P. 118.

[2] Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Perizonius : History of East Frisia. Edited from the best sources . 4 volumes. Risius, Weener 1868–1869, (reprint: Schuster, Leer 1974, ISBN 3-7963-0068-5 ). P. 383.