Coburg State Foundation

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The Coburg State Foundation is a foundation under public law with legal capacity and is based in Coburg . It serves to promote art and culture in the Coburg region.

Ehrenburg Palace,
seat of the state foundation

Foundation established in 1919

The state foundation was established on August 9, 1919 with the law on the use of the previous domain property and the establishment of a state foundation by the Free State of Coburg . The aim was to tie the cultural assets of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg to their legitimate locations.

The art treasures of the Veste Coburg , collections in the Hofgarten Museum (today's Natural History Museum ) and furnishings of the Ehrenburg Palace were transferred as property to the foundation from the severance agreement of June 7, 1919 with the former Duke Carl Eduard . In addition, the foundation should maintain and manage the court and state library , later the Coburg State Library , and the state and house documents collection, later the Coburg State Archive .

The buildings, which came into state ownership, were left for the exclusive use of the state foundation for the purpose of exhibiting the movables and administration. The foundation was to be funded by half of the net income from the domain forests , estates and other properties taken over by the state . Due to an additional contract dated June 30, 1920 between the Free State of Coburg and the state foundation, Rosenau Castle also became the property of the foundation.

Foundation after the union with Bavaria

After the unification of the Free State of Coburg with the Free State of Bavaria on July 1, 1920, the real estate became the property of Bavaria, which also has to pay for its preservation. The state foundation makes its art treasures accessible to the public in the art collections of Veste Coburg and in the Zweig Museum , the European Museum for Modern Glass near Rosenau Castle ; in addition, the natural history collections are exhibited in the Coburg Natural History Museum. In addition, since 1941 the foundation has been in charge of the Bavarian administration of the state palaces, gardens and lakes , since 1999 under the name "Palace and Garden Administration Coburg", the castles Ehrenburg and Rosenau. The Coburg State Foundation remained the owner of the entire (art) inventory. In 1937, the then State Archives Department of Coburg took over the administration of the State Archives; In 1973 the state library was taken over into the administration of the Free State of Bavaria . In 1972 the foundation also sold Rosenau Castle to the Free State of Bavaria. In 1954 the Landesstiftung acquired 50,000 volumes from the last Duke's private library.

Due to fluctuating income from the former domain estates, the funding of the state foundation was switched to fixed state subsidies in 1932. In 2005, around 2.7 million euros in allocation by the Bavarian state were planned in the budget, of which eleven civil servant posts were paid.

literature

  • Emil Beck: History and legal situation of the Coburg State Foundation . Inaugural dissertation from the Law Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1967.
  • Carl-Christian Dressel: The provisions of the State Treaty. Development, background, consequences - with special consideration of Franz Klingler's work. Technical thesis from the subject of history, Gymnasium Casimirianum Coburg, college year 1987/89. Self-published, Coburg 1989.
  • Jürgen Erdmann: Coburg, Bavaria and the Reich 1918–1923 . Druckhaus and Vesteverlag A. Rossteutscher, Coburg 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Free State of Bavaria: Budget 2005/2006, p. 961