Fasanerie Hunting Lodge (Hermannsfeld)
The Fasanerie hunting lodge is located in the Hermannsfeld district of the Rhönblick community in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .
location
The castle is located on the edge of a forest east of Hermannsfeld on the border with Bavaria around ten kilometers south of the district town of Meiningen . The state highways L 3019 (formerly Bundesstraße 19 ) and L 2625 run not far , from the latter there is an access road to the castle. The Main-Werra long-distance cycle path (Würzburg – Meiningen) leads directly past the castle. The castle offers a wide view of the southern Rhön .
history
The wooded area belonging to the castle was already used as a zoo in the 16th century and served as a hunting ground for the dukes of Saxony-Meiningen from 1680 . Duke Georg I then had the simple, classical building with two corner pavilions built around 1790. During the Napoleonic period there were financial and occupational difficulties. Russian Cossacks plundered through the Werra Valley in 1813 . It was not until 1821 that the area under Duke Bernhard II flourished as a ducal hunting and excursion destination. The forest became a nature park, where pheasants, red deer and fallow deer were kept in enclosures. After the revolution of 1848, the nature park was open to all citizens. Under Duke Georg II , the palace and park experienced their heyday when new breeding facilities and ponds were established. After the abdication of Duke Bernhard III. in November 1918 the property came to the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen and from 1920 to the State of Thuringia .
After the Second World War
After the Second World War , refugees and displaced persons as well as orphaned children found a home here. Because of the new inner-German border, units of the Red Army and later the border police then used the castle as accommodation. From the 1960s, the castle was used by the Henneberg School, among others . After 1977 it was largely empty. On the initiative of the population, the decay of the castle could be stopped.
After German reunification
The pheasantry was taken over by the municipality of Hermannsfeld and, from 1997, by the new municipality of Rhönblick and renovated with EU support. The Rhön Biosphere Reserve was also involved. A nature and bee trail was laid out in the forest. The short-term tenant of the entire property was later the non-profit association “Projekt 50”, which wanted to set up a communication center here. After disagreements, he was fired in 2015. Since 2013, new tenants have been running the “Jägerstube” restaurant and the castle is used for various community celebrations.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Communication center Jagdschloss Fasanerie ( Memento from October 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Meininger Tageblatt: Article “Pentecost 2016”, published on May 13, 2016.
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 19.6 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 49.9 ″ E