Gustavusburg

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Restored ruins of the Gustavusburg

A building belonging to the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm is called Gustavusburg or Gustav Adolf . It is located on the outskirts of Dessau-Waldersee in the direction of Wörlitz .

history

Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau had the Gustavusburg built between 1784 and 1786. The building was initially used as a residential building and to store equipment for the maintenance of the neighboring flood walls. In 1792 he gave the house to the Swedish captain Baron von Greifenheim. The common name Sweden House can be traced back to a gilded relief on the main facade, which represents the Swedish king Gustav Adolph . The building had been used as an inn since 1863, but it fell into disrepair after its use in 1969. The ruins were first secured after 1990. With financial support from the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the DessauWörlitz Cultural Foundation was able to acquire the property from private ownership in December 2005 and then repair the existing building fabric and rebuild the risalit with the relief.

The building is registered as a monument .

photos

  • State until 2006

  • 2006

  • 2007, start of partial reconstruction

  • 2007

  • 2016

  • 2019, back

  • Sandstone relief with Gustav Adolf

  • Information board at the Schwedenhaus

literature

Web links

Commons : Schwedenhaus (Dessau-Waldersee)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swedish house in Dessau-Waldersee - securing and partial restoration. (No longer available online.) Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, July 3, 2006, archived from the original on December 31, 2014 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gartenreich.com

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 37 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 9 ″  E