Seidingstadt hunting lodge

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The former castle around 1905 (postcard)

The Castle Seidingstadt was a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Saxony-Hildburghausen in Seidingstadt that today the municipality Straufhain belongs. As the summer residence of the ducal family, it was also known as "Landséjour Castle (country residence)".

investment

The castle, a two-storey central building with two side wings, pavilion , park, chaise hall, court gardener's house and castle guard, consisted of 40 rooms, including the hunting room in the central building, which was furnished with paintings with hunting scenes and a large fireplace from 1694. The entrance to the central building was adorned with two deer antlers that Duchess Christiane Sophie von Sachsen-Hildburghausen shot herself during a hunt in 1757.

history

At the point where even Duke Johann Casimir of Saxe-Coburg, a castle built, Duke Ernst of Saxe-Hildburghausen from about 1,690 a hunting lodge with park and Vorwerk build. Because of the use of the castle as the summer residence of the dukes, Seidingstadt was given its own parish in 1717. Duchess Christiane Sophie and Duke Ernst Friedrich III died in the palace in 1757 . Carl 1780. In 1792 Princess Therese , later Queen of Bavaria, was born here. She inherited the castle together with her brother Eduard .

After changing owners several times, the castle fell into disrepair and was finally completely torn down after a fire in the late 1970s. Concerts are still held regularly in the palace gardens.

Seidingstadt was the most important hunting lodge of the Hildburghausen dukes. According to the plans and photographs that have been preserved, the architecture for a castle of this type seems to have been complex. Although the building no longer exists, the hunting paintings have been preserved.

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 , p. 375/376

literature

  • Dr. Rudolf Armin Human: Chronicle of the city of Hildburghausen. Kesselringsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hildburghausen 1886
  • Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - A historical travel guide. Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
  • Hans Löhner: The “Bimmelbähnle” from Hildburghausen to Lindenau-Friedrichstal: A Thuringian narrow-gauge railway into Heldburger Land. Verlag Michael Resch, Neustadt / Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-5-3 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 47 ″  E