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Castle of the Amalienruh

The Amalienruh estate , until 1785 Sophienlust , is located in the district of Sülzfeld not far from the district town of Meiningen in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia .

history

The estate with its small castle was built in 1718 by the builder Johann Caspar Hartung (1622–1725) on behalf of Duchess Elisabeth Sophie von Brandenburg , the wife of Duke Ernst Ludwig I of Saxony-Meiningen . Sophie used it as her summer residence and called the property "Sophienlust". Previously, the Mullefeld farm, which was first mentioned in 1151 and later developed into the village of Mehmelsfeld, was located on the site. After 1498 this became a desert. After the Thirty Years' War, the Baumbach family rebuilt a farm here, which they then sold to Elisabeth Sophie von Brandenburg.

In 1785 the estate came into the possession of Duchess Charlotte Amalie von Hessen-Philippsthal , who was regent of Saxony-Meiningen from 1763 to 1782. She had major extensions of the property carried out and now named it Amalienruh. In 1813 it served as a hospital. In 1889, Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen sold the estate. From 1904 to 1920, under the direction of Baroness Elisabeth von Pawel-Rammingen, the first rural school in Germany that belonged to the Reifensteiner Association was located here. From 1945 to 1975 Amalienruh was the agrarian state-owned "Jugendgut Thomas Müntzer" and then came to LPG Hermannsfeld . From 1995 the property stood empty and fell into disrepair. It has been privately owned again since 2003. The owner rebuilt the estate, operates ecological agriculture and continues to offer the estate as a holiday home.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Jacob: The place names of the Duchy of Meiningen . Kesselring, Hildburghausen 1894, p. 17 ( digitized version [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  2. ↑ JS Ersch , JG Gruber (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Third part. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1819, p. 507 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Rural School for Women and Amalienruh Teaching Farm. (PDF) Reifensteiner Verband, accessed on September 16, 2015 .
  4. ^ Entry on the pleasure palace Sophienlust in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 16, 2015.

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 36.6 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 57.5 ″  E