Oberhof hunting lodge

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The hunting lodge (2011)
The hunting lodge (1862)

The Oberhof hunting lodge was located in the rural town of Oberhof in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .

history

Previous buildings

As early as 1616, Duke Johann Ernst I (Sachsen-Weimar) had a hunting lodge built in the Black Forest office near Oberhof on the property of a princely house with eight rooms on the "meadow at the side". The new castle was surrounded by a square wall . From now on, the Weimar court held large court hunts here twice a year. In 1634 this building burned down . After the Black Forest Office fell to the newly founded Duchy of Saxe-Gotha in 1640 , no reconstruction was considered at first. For this, Duke Ernst I built a princely house in Oberhof.

These buildings were carried out by his grandson, Duke Friedrich II . In 1717 a princely escort for hunting guests was added.

The ducal hunting lodge

From 1830 to 1832 Duke Ernst I had a new building built. This was related to the simultaneous construction of a road from Gotha to Coburg, which crossed the ridge of the Thuringian Forest near Oberhof. Duke Ernst II was usually present to hunt in autumn. Inside and outside the building was decorated with well over two hundred hunting trophies . In 1839 the Saxon King Friedrich August II and ten other princes and princes were guests in the hunting lodge. In the Year of Three Emperors in 1888, the Prince Imperial bored ( Wilhelm of Prussia (1882-1951) , Eitel Friedrich of Prussia , Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948) , August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887 to 1949) ) as a guest of the ducal house for several weeks in the hunting lodge . In 1926 it was converted into an officer's home.

The castle was used as a residential building during the GDR era and has been vacant since the 1990s. After a fire and water damage from the extinguishing water (2002), the apartments were dismantled in 2006 and 2007. In 2012, the city of Oberhof, as the owner, commissioned the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thuringia to find a buyer and investor for the building.

The ducal hunting lodge was not classified as a cultural monument due to its structural condition and appearance. In 2020 the building was demolished for a new hotel.

Web links

Commons : Jagdschloss Oberhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure palaces of the 17th and 18th centuries in Thuringia. Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , pp. 353 and 354
  2. ↑ a b Harald Sandner: The House of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha 1826 to 2001; Documentation on the 175th anniversary of the parent company in words and pictures . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-008525-4 , p. 297
  3. ↑ Meininger Tageblatt. March 5, 2020. p. 11. A castle in ruins
  4. ↑ oberhof.de ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed February 9, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberhof.de
  5. ↑ Ducal hunting lodge is for sale , insuedthueringen.de October 10, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2015
  6. ^ City of Oberhof: Development plan special area Hotel "Schützenberg" , draft for public display, status: July 3rd, 2019, p. 11.
  7. ↑ Now it starts: The hunting lodge is being demolished , insuedthueringen.de February 12, 2020

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 21.8 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 24.6"  E