Luisentempel (Neustrelitz)

Luisentempel in the Neustrelitz castle park

The Luise Temple was built in 1891 in Neustrelitz Castle Park as a memorial hall for the Prussian Queen Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , who died in 1810 at Hohenzieritz Castle .

The classical temple stands on the edge of the castle park on a heaped hill. It replaced an octagonal temple built from wood in 1829. The architect Bernhard Sehring used Silesian sandstone as building material . The interior is clad in colored Italian marble. In the center is a copy of the second version of a sarcophagus created by Christian Daniel Rauch in 1827 with the figure of the queen resting on it. After a plaster cast taken from the original of this version, Rauch's student Albert Wolff made the copy in Carrara marble in 1891 . The original of this version was initially in that of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Temple of antiquities in Potsdam's Sanssouci Park , redesigned as a memorial for the Queen , then in the Hohenzollern Museum in Berlin. Today the original of the second version of the grave statue is kept in the Friedrichswerder Church (Berlin) and can be viewed there.

The original of the first version was created by CD Rauch for the mausoleum in the Charlottenburg Palace Park from 1811 to 1814 and can still be seen there today.

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Gerlinde Kienitz: Neustrelitz Castle Park. Edited by Museum der Stadt Neustrelitz, p. 20 (illustrated with photographs by Horst-Günter Jung)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Otto Wagner (Ed.): Tourist guide of Neustrelitz and the surrounding area. Neustrelitz 1926, p. 28.
^ The mausoleum in the Charlottenburg palace garden. 3rd extended edition. Ed. Administration of State Palaces and Gardens, Berlin 1991.

53.360788 13.052612Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '38.8 " N , 13 ° 3' 9.4" E

[kienitz-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Gerlinde Kienitz: Neustrelitz Castle Park. Edited by Museum der Stadt Neustrelitz, p. 20 (illustrated with photographs by Horst-Günter Jung)

[wagner_ntz-2] Otto Wagner (Ed.): Tourist guide of Neustrelitz and the surrounding area. Neustrelitz 1926, p. 28.

[mausuleum_charlottenburg-3] The mausoleum in the Charlottenburg palace garden. 3rd extended edition. Ed. Administration of State Palaces and Gardens, Berlin 1991.