Hereditary Princely Palace Dessau
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The Hereditary Prince Palace was a palace in Dessau , Saxony-Anhalt . It was on Kavalierstrasse. The palace was also known as the Erbprinzenpalais or the Ducal Palace . It was a residence of the dukes of Anhalt . Today the Dessau City Park is located on the grounds of the Palais .
history
Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau had a palace built in Kavalierstrasse for his son Prince Moritz . It was completed in 1740, and Prince Moritz lived in the building until his death in 1760. Subsequently, the unmarried Prince Eugen , a Prussian major general and Saxon field marshal, lived there . 1785 moved on the order of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz set up a school in the building. The old palace was torn down around 1880 because the entire woodwork had become worm-eaten and infected with the sponge.
A new palace in the French Renaissance style was built between 1884 and 1888 based on a design by Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann from Berlin. Professor Lessing from Berlin was entrusted with the interior design and was responsible for the festival and representation rooms. A royal stables were built at the same time as the palace. The dukes Leopold IV , Friedrich I and Friedrich II lived in the palace one after the other.
The palace was demolished in 1927 by decision of the Dessau municipal council. The city park was created from the area freed up and the palace gardens behind it. The original intention was to build the new Friedrich Theater building here, which burned down in 1922. As a result of the global economic crisis in 1929, the theater project was postponed, the new theater was built at another location (Friedensplatz) between 1935 and 1938.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 1.2 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 31.2" E