Zillbach Hunting Lodge
The Zillbach Hunting Lodge is located in Zillbach in today's Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .
In 1545 Georg Ernst, the then Count von Henneberg, bought the former Zillbach glass blowing . By 1595 he had the Zillbach hunting lodge built from the remains , a two-storey mansion made of plastered half-timbering . After the von Henneberg family died out, it belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , later to the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach and fell into disrepair in the 18th century. In 1790, the old structure was rebuilt on the remains. In the vicinity of Zillbach Castle, the first houses for farmers, servants and forest workers were built from 1693 with the permission of Duke Johann Georg von Sachsen-Eisenach, from which today's Zillbach developed.
Heinrich Cotta (1763–1844) set up his forest science institute in Zillbach Castle in 1795 and built a forest botanical complex with hundreds of different tree species.
The stalking house ( hunting lodge ) was supposed to be a courtyard of honor, because the stables on the entrance sides to the pavilion were planned. The project was most likely never completed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Burgen und Schlösser.net , accessed on September 24, 2014
- ^ Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure castles: art and culture of two sovereign building tasks; shown on Thuringian buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , p. 440
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 10 ° 17 ′ 40 ″ E