Breakfast pavilion
The breakfast pavilion is a historic staffage building in downtown Kassel at the western end of the Schöne Aussicht . The building, erected before 1805 or 1815, is the last remnant of the gardens of the Bellevue Palace , which was demolished after the Second World War except for the Palais Bellevue .
history
The pavilion was built under Elector Wilhelm I as a focal point at the end of the small palace park on the outskirts of the city at that time. The executive architect was Daniel Engelhard , who later became the Kassel master builder . Large parts of the gardens were built over by a stables at the beginning of the 19th century, the place of which is now occupied by the New Gallery . The area of the garden on the slope to the Karlsaue was extensively redesigned in the course of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1955.
Building description
The classicistic round temple follows the contemporary fashion of the Empire . The flat vaulted cupola rests on eight pillars with Corinthian half-columns in front. Rich stucco over the portals show griffins under festoons .
Detail of the building sculpture
View from the temple over the Karlsaue
literature
- Alois Holtmeyer: The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region, Bd. VI . Marburg 1923
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Hesse - City of Kassel I. Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06232-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Christian Krieger, Cassel in historical and topographical terms. Kassel 1805, p. 278 (this may be the description of a previous building)
- ↑ According to the online catalog of the Hessen-Kassel Museum Landscape , OAI Record: urn: nbn: de: he 010011568172 , the building was erected after Engelhard's trip to Italy in 1815
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 31.4 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 32.6" E