Pheasant Castle (Karlsruhe)

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Pheasant castle
Map of the Karlsruhe palace complex, in the east the pheasant palace

The Fasanenschlösschen or Fasanengarten-Schlösschen is a pleasure and tea house in the Karlsruhe Pheasant Garden east of the castle tower , which was built in the Chinese style between 1764 and 1765 and, together with two opposite pavilions, also in Chinese style, is an ensemble of buildings around one grouped lengthways oval square. Initially, the building was used for the rearing of pheasants until it was converted into a small castle around 1773 in the course of the redesign of the castle garden to an English landscape garden .

history

Already in the years 1711 to 1714, i.e. before Karlsruhe was founded, the Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach arranged for the pheasant garden to be set up as a hunting and game park. Previously, he had specially ordered an envoy to Lille to inspect the park there. In 1714, a wooden hunting lodge was built in a clearing called “Bocksblöse”, which was finally brittle after 40 years.

From 1764–1765, the two-storey pheasant castle was built in solid construction by Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden on the same site . Initially, the building functioned as a pheasantry, housing the breeding rooms on the ground floor and the apartment of the pheasant master and his family on the upper floor. Gold and silver pheasants were kept in the pavilions opposite. When the court society claimed the building ensemble for social purposes, the pheasantry was relocated and the hatchery was converted into a social hall. This functional revaluation is reflected in the name "Fasanenschlösschen", which has been used since then.

The building, previously also used by the Technical University of Karlsruhe , has been the seat of the State Forestry School since 1926 . This was renamed in 2000 to "Forest Education Center Karlsruhe".

architecture

The overall architectural ensemble of castles and pavilions is inspired by the then current Chinese fashion. While Chinese seated figures with open umbrellas sit enthroned on the roofs of the pavilions, the richly ornamented, reddish facade of all components of the ensemble testifies to the splendor of exotic-Asian formal elements. The ornamentation with palm trees and other filigree foliage is a reminder of the stylistic adaptation.

literature

Web links

Commons : Fasanenschlösschen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Annette Ludwig , Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann , Bernhard Schmitt: Karlsruhe - architecture in view. A cross section. Röser, Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 3-9805361-2-2
  2. ↑ Patricia Blum: Hardtwald experience. The dream in green. Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 3-7650-8272-4

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 46.5 ″  E