Kyrill Palace
The former Kyrill-Palais , also called Villa Edinburgh , is located in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg in the street Oberer Bürglaß 2. It bears the name of his last master, the Russian Grand Duke Kyrill .
history
The palace was built in 1847 as a residence for the State Councilor and Chamberlain Emil Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen, who received the property with the former prince's garden from Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . Baron von Wangenheim had built the neighboring area to the south towards Schlossplatz at the same time. This is where the property later called the Edinburgh Palace was built . In 1857 the Berlin major Julius Emil Alexander von Bonsori became the new owner, followed two years later by Rittmeister Friedrich Ehrenreich von Muschwitz . In 1886, Duke Alfred acquired the property in addition to the neighboring Edinburgh Palace. After his death, the property went to his wife Marie . In mid-1922 the villa came into the possession of the daughter Viktoria Melita , who had been married to the Russian Grand Duke Kyrill since 1905 . The villa was one of the couple's residences. In 1940 the city of Coburg acquired the property from their daughter Maria Kyrillowna Hereditary Princess zu Leiningen. Today the property houses, among other things, a municipal kindergarten.
architecture
Palace
The two-storey palace was built in the style of late classicism . In 1868 the Rittmeister Friedrich Ehrenreich von Muschwitz arranged for the palace to be redesigned by raising the upper floor windows and building the mansard roof . In 1907 a two-story, single-axis extension followed on the north side and in 1954 it was converted into a kindergarten. In 1962 the south-eastern part of the building was demolished and rebuilt.
The facade of the palace consists of sandstone blocks . It is framed by corner cubes at the house edges and divided by cornices . In the middle is a three-axis risalit with a triangular gable , flanked on both sides by single-axis rows of windows. While there are rectangular windows on the upper floor, the ground floor is emphasized by arched windows with a wide sill . The windows and door to the terrace in the risalit are characterized by three round arches that rest on pillars with Tuscan fighters . In addition to the main building, there are single-axis wing structures with horizontally structured façades on both sides, two-storey in the north and arbor in the south .
Outbuildings
Behind the palace there is a neo-Gothic outbuilding, the back of which is arranged on the former city moat, today's avenue, and to the north on the Bürglaßbrücke . The former stable building was built with the palace and redesigned in its current form in 1869 on behalf of Rittmeister von Muschwitz as a stable and coach house . Extensive repairs were carried out in 1989/90. It serves the city as an administrative building.
The eaves side house has a gable roof with dormers with a crooked hip . The gables have a row of windows and are stepped in a neo-Gothic style on the sides and top. The basement with its narrow, small windows consists of an undivided rectangular plinth and is integrated into the decorative walls of the avenue. The facade above is plastered and has six fields framed by pilaster strips and cornice. To the south, a single-storey square building with a three-sided bay window and terrace connects to the Edinburgh Palace . The west facade of the palace has four windows, grouped together, followed by a pair of windows and the entrance, above which a loading dome for the hayloft is arranged.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X .
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 37 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 4 ″ E