Spiegelsberge hunting lodge
The Spiegelsberge hunting lodge is a building erected as a hunting lodge on the Spiegelsberge near Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt . Today it is used as a restaurant.
The castle was built on a rectangular floor plan between 1780 and 1782. The mirror mountains were named after the poet Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel zu Desenberg (1711–1785), manor owner and canon of Halberstadt, who had contributed significantly to the reforestation. Under his leadership, the English-style Spiegelsberge Landscape Park was created in 1761 , which has been open to the public since 1771 and has been owned by the city since 1904. The park is now part of the Garden Dreams Saxony-Anhalt network .
On the north and south facade there are curved gables in the Renaissance style, unusual for the period around 1780. From the south a strange flight of stairs leads to the hall on the upper floor. Some parts of the building come from the demolished Gröningen Castle , in particular the portal on the south side at the entrance to the castle's cellar. The essay shows the coats of arms of Bishop Heinrich Julius and his wives. The bishops of Halberstadt had rebuilt and expanded the Gröningen Castle from 1535 into one of the most important Renaissance castles in the region in the form of a four-wing complex; from 1680 it fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 1817. The very large Gröninger barrel in the cellar is also remarkable .
In 1958 the hunting lodge was converted into a restaurant. In this context, a commercial extension was also built.
literature
- Ute Bednarz in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 350
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 28 " N , 11 ° 2 ′ 33.8" E