Court garden palace

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The old court garden palace, also the court gardener's house

The old court garden palace , also known as the court gardener's house or "Frankonia" after its current tenant, is a late baroque mansion in Triesdorf built by Johann David Steingruber on behalf of Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1772 . It is considered the ideal form of the Ansbach architectural style of the late 18th century, which shapes the cityscape of Ansbach to this day. The facade of the main building is older, it was dismantled from the abandoned Carls-Passage (built in 1750) and reused at the Hofgarten Palace.

The court garden palace was once part of the margravial summer residence Triesdorf. In the last 40 years the main building and the east wing of the listed building have been completely renovated by the owner, the Central Franconia district , and the tenant of the main building, the Frankonia zu Triesdorf Landsmannschaft .

Summer residence Triesdorf

Triesdorf originally belonged to the Lords of Seckendorff . On September 18, 1600, Margrave Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg-Ansbach bought the Triesdorf castle estate from Wolf Balthasar von Seckendorff. At that time the castle estate consisted of some buildings that belonged to an estate, a church and the water castle built in 1454 by the von Seckendorf family.

In the following two centuries, the Ansbach margraves built Triesdorf into a princely residence in the style of the time and gave the place its unusual appearance for a Franconian village. Such a summer hideaway also included an estate in order to be able to cater to the court as independently as possible. In addition to a real estate, the so-called economy , gardeners were also employed. The first residential building for the Triesdorf court gardener was built in 1701 under the direction of Gabrielis by the vice-building inspector Johann Braunstein near the dairy. In 1767 the house was still referred to as the court gardener's house on a Kneulein plan . The location of the building at that time is understandable through the close proximity of the old kitchen garden. It was not until 50 years after the new kitchen garden was laid out in 1723 that the court gardener received a house at the current place of work. In a protocol from Steingruber dated March 14, 1772, the construction of a new court gardener's house was reported. The construction report was confirmed by a chamber decree of April 4, 1772, in which it was ordered that the building materials from the abandoned Carls-Passage should be used for the construction of the new Hofgärtnerhaus.

The court garden palace

Excerpt from a Paul Amadé Biarelles map from 1751. A road from Triesdorf to Merkendorfer Tor / Waldeck, B orangery (location of today's castle), C gardens, today plant trial areas of the agricultural college, D access to the court garden palace, today fruit plantation

The court garden palace was built on the square of the orangery on the southern edge of the new kitchen garden using parts of the warm houses. These were partially preserved as long, level wings. The facade of the house has the structure of bourgeois houses common in the principality, with rusticated pilaster strips and raised plastered fields. The roof is designed in the style of stone pit. A slightly protruding three-axis risalit occupies the center of the building and is raised as a mansard storey . Two windows each flank the central building. Two further wings adjoin on both sides at the same eaves height and are extended by long, single-storey warm houses. The stately portal with its high basket-arched roof is the portal of the inlaid Carls-Passage, which building inspector Steingruber had added as a pompous entrance to the court gardener's house. In addition to the content of the construction news, the monogram of Alexander on the wrought iron railing of the outside staircase confirms that the house was built on behalf of the last margrave.

Todays use

In the post-margravial era, the building served as a storage room and stood empty for a long time. In 1968 the student union Landsmannschaft Frankonia zu Triesdorf signed a long-term lease for the main building. As a result, the main building was completely renovated in several construction phases. The vaulted cellar was drained and serves as an event room. A pub and common rooms for the student union were set up on the ground floor, while rooms rented to students are located on the upper floor.

The west wing was also renovated in the 1990s. There are classrooms and a cider factory for the agricultural schools. The east wing, which has not yet been renovated, contains the fraternity floor and a storage room for the agricultural schools.

The Carls-Passage after a drawing by Johann David Steingruber 1750

The former Carls-Passagen

The construction of three passages can be proven from contemporary literature and from the court building files. In 1750, Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach had the Carls-Passage built in honor of his own name and the Louisen-Passage in the same year as gallantry for his wife Friederike-Louise of Prussia . As a third hunting lodge he had the Carolinen-Passage built in 1755 in honor of his daughter-in-law Friederike Caroline von Sachsen-Coburg .

The strange names of the buildings have been interpreted differently. Mostly its name was understood in the sense that it should express the possibility of passage through the building, whereby it was assumed that the pleasure houses were built over the axis of two routes. The location of these structures alone rules out this interpretation. They were located off the traffic routes in the middle of the meadows of the Altmühltal . In addition to its spatial meaning, the concept of passage also has a temporal content, for example in the sense of expressing the transitory of a short stay. This explanation would also come closer to the purpose of the pleasure houses.

Contemporary sources reported that in 1750 the Carls and Louisen Passage "half of the Paiz" was built. As hunting lodges, they were used for the temporary stay of the princely hunting party as a starting point and gathering point for heron picking (falconry). Based on this provision, both the location and the design of the passages are clarified. They were small branch offices of larger Falk house in the village, and intended as a kind of comfortable Ansitz to serve on bird Wild at falconry. In Triesdorf, the meadows and pastures of the wide Altmühltal offered themselves as the ideal area for this type of hunting. The hunt distinguishes two types of execution: hunting from the fist and waiting . In the first case, the hawk is only thrown from the fist when the driver "pulls up" prickly game . While waiting , the falcon , which has been thrown to high flight, soars into the air in wide spirals in order to remain at a great height above its master until he lets the wild birds to be hunted fly up. Only then does the waiting falcon pounce on the soaring heron. The passages seem to have been built for this second type of stain. Given their level location, they offered the hunting party an elevated stage from which the scene could be observed. Steingruber took this intention into account in his designs. He surrounded the Carls-Passage with a terrace and designed four balconies for the Louisen-Passage that opened towards the cardinal points. The complete lack of living quarters and bedrooms confirms that the pleasure houses only offered space for short-term hunting pleasure.

The exact point in time when Margrave Carl Alexander had his father's passages inserted is not known, the Carls passage was inserted in 1772 at the latest.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Braun, Heinz: "Summer residence Triesdorf - building history of the facilities" Volume II; Publishing house Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1958
  2. ^ Archives of the Frankonia Landsmannschaft zu Triesdorf
  3. ↑ Gottfried Samuel Ernst: List of the Triesdorf buildings , Mekendorf, January 10, 1757
  4. ^ Daniel Burger: The pleasure houses of the "Wild Margrave". Johann David Steingruber's hunting lodge for Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Ansbach, in: Yearbook of the Historisches Verein für Mittelfranken 97 (1994/1995) (Ansbach 1996), pp. 219–248.
  5. ^ Promemoria of the captain von Schlammersdorf, archive of the city of Ansbach

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 22.8 "  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 34.5"  E