Princely house of Weimar
The Princely House on the Platz der Demokratie in Weimar is a former palace, parliament and government building that today houses the Liszt School of Music Weimar .
history
The architect Anton Georg Hauptmann built the building from 1770–1774 based on plans by the princely master builder Johann Gottfried Schlegel . The foundation stone was laid on May 3, 1770. The Princely Landscape Treasury (the financial authority) was supposed to move into the building, but this never happened. In 1774 the Weimar city palace , the Wilhelmsburg, burned down . Duke Karl August then moved into the unfinished landscape treasury building, which was henceforth called the Princely House . He was to regret moving in, as he had to experience that the 74-meter-long ceiling collapsed as early as 1781 as a result of structural defects, which can probably be traced back to Hauptmann's work. Hauptmann had apparently built in cheaper material to increase his own profits. Schlegel lost his post because he had allegedly taken inadequate fire protection precautions for this building. Hauptmann had intrigued against Schlegel. This happened under the influence of the castle fire of 1774.
From 1848 to 1918 the Princely House was the seat of the parliament of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and of the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach until 1920. Until 1933 it housed the Thuringian Parliament (Weimar Republic) and the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior.
Today the Princely House belongs to the Liszt School of Music. The building is flanked at an almost right angle by the Rößler house , the administration building of the university.
description
The facade with the row of columns in the middle part with the Corinthian capitals and the mansard roof is striking . Above the columns there is a balcony , the balustrade of which is equipped with urns . It is a building with a ground floor , two upper floors and an attic . The pillars that are visible today were only added during a renovation in 1892, while previously it was only apparent pillars that specified the structure of the facade.
An equestrian statue of Carl August by the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf is placed in front of the building on the square . The Duchess Anna Amalia Library is in the immediate vicinity .
On the back in Puschkinstrasse is the ginkgo biloba , which Goethe himself had his court gardener Johann Conrad Sckell plant there around 1815 and is therefore also called Goethe-Ginkgo and is now a natural monument .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 42 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 53.5" E