Elisabeth-Anna-Palais
The Elisabeth-Anna-Palais is a secular building in Oldenburg , Lower Saxony .
building
The building was built with red bricks and has many ornaments and baroque features. At the southeast corner (today at the entrance on the left) rises a striking tower that ends with an onion roof. On the eastern side facing the castle there was a large additional building that served as a kitchen wing.
history
The Elisabeth-Anna-Palais was built on behalf of the last Oldenburg Grand Duke Friedrich August according to the plans of the senior building councilor Ludwig Freese . The ducal family usually resided in the Oldenburg Palace . Friedrich August (who only became reigning Grand Duke in 1900 ) had a new domicile built in the palace garden (today in the line between the palace and Augusteum ). It was originally called the "Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace". The first drafts from the summer of 1894 intended to build the building much closer to the Oldenburg Castle. A bridge over the Schlossplatz should connect the castle and the palace. A picture gallery was planned on the bridge. However, the plans were discarded in favor of the current location, which has been relocated further to the south-west, more closely embedded in the palace gardens.
The construction period lasted from 1894 to 1896. During this time, his wife Elisabeth Anna von Prussia (1857–1895), the daughter of Friedrich Karl Nikolaus von Prussia (1828–1885), died. In her honor the palace was given its current name. On October 24, 1896 , Friedrich August moved into the new residence with his second wife Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1869–1955), the daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II (1823–1883) and his family.
After the Grand Duke was forced by dispersed revolutionaries on November 8, 1918, to hoist the red flag in both the palace and the Elisabeth-Anna-Palais, he renounced the throne three days later and retired to his palace in Rastede .
After his resignation, the palace was used in another form. At the beginning of the 1960s, the kitchen wing had to give way to the new street "Schloßwall" and was demolished. Since the palace was now located directly on the newly built street, it also had its own entrance on this side. Today the Oldenburg Social Court is located in the building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Dohe: Oldenburg, imaginary 'Museums - planned gallery buildings from 1838 to 1914 . In: Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur- und Heimatkunde (Hrsg.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch . tape 116 . Isensee, Oldenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7308-1302-7 , p. 181-208 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 13 ″ N , 8 ° 12 ′ 55 ″ E