Waidmannsheil hunting lodge

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The Waidmannsheil hunting lodge around 1907

The hunting lodge Waidmannsheil is a small castle in Saaldorf , a district of the town of Bad Lobenstein in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

Location and shape

The hunting lodge Waidmannsheil is located in a park area on the southern edge of Saaldorf. It is a one-story building with a floor area of ​​around 20 by 15 meters. It has a hipped roof and a tower-like middle section, to the entrance of which a flight of stairs leads. The tower is crowned with a crenellated wreath and corner turrets. The door and window are ogival. The architectural style can be assigned to the neo-Gothic . Other former farm buildings belong to the site.

history

Waidmannsheil was built from 1834 to 1837 by the Gotha court architect Gustav Eberhard for Heinrich the seventy-second of Reuss-Ebersdorf as a hunting lodge . The construction costs are said to have been 80,000 thalers. The hunting area was the forest area which was set up as a "zoo" gate to the east as far as the boundary of the Langgrün municipality .

The hunting lodge served the prince as a second residence next to Schloss Ebersdorf . The dancer Lola Montez , who was the Prince's guest in 1843, stayed here until he was expelled from the country.

In 1848 the hunting lodge came to the Principality of Reuss younger line when the reussian rulers merged with Ebersdorf . In 1945 Heinrich XLV., The younger line, was the owner. It was expropriated by the Soviet occupying forces and was then considered lost. The property later became GDR public property and from 1965 was used as a vacation and training home by the VEB Wasserversorgung und Abwasserverarbeitung Gera , whereby a renovation took place in 1968.

After 1990 the princely Reuss family bought the hunting lodge back. It is currently (2014) used by a consulting company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ruler of a small state . In: The Gazebo . Issue 51, 1866, pp. 806–808 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - Part 2).
  2. ↑ burgen-und-schloesser.net , accessed on December 11, 2014
  3. ↑ The ruler of a small state . In: The Gazebo . Issue 38, 1866, pp. 591–595 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - Part 1).
  4. ↑ a b Ostthüringer Zeitung , September 16, 2010 , accessed on December 11, 2014
  5. ^ Entry on Jagdschloss Waidmannsheil in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  6. ↑ Bad Lobenstein Business Directory , accessed on December 11, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E