Palais Brühl-Marcolini
The Palais Brühl-Marcolini is a garden palace built from 1727 in the suburb of Ostra, which was built near Dresden in 1670, in today's Friedrichstadt district . Today the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital is housed in the palace and in later extensions and new buildings on its property . The Palais Brühl-Marcolini should not be confused with Marcolini's hunting lodge in the Waldschlösschenviertel and the former Palais Brühl on Brühl's Terrace .
Construction phases
Already in the late 17th century there was a stately garden at this point, which was bought by the imperial count von Manteuffel in 1718. August the Strong acquired the property in 1726 and gave it to a Duke of Württemberg in 1727, whose wife Countess Ursula Katharina Lubomirska was a mistress of the king. In 1727/28 she probably had a garden palace built there by Johann Christoph Naumann with a central octagonal garden hall and ballroom above, as well as short transverse wings on what would later become Friedrichstrasse.
In 1736 the countess had to sell the property to Count Heinrich von Brühl , who immediately had Johann Christoph Knöffel add a courtyard to the palace with side wings. The main axis facing the garden was completed by the elaborate system of the Neptune Fountain , which was built from 1741 and completed in 1744 by Lorenzo Mattielli .
From 1774 Johann Daniel Schade and Johann Gottfried Kuntsch rebuilt the palace again, this time for the new owner, Count Camillo Marcolini . Around 1780 the so-called “Chinese” and “Pompeian” rooms were created by Johann Ludwig Giesel and Christian Traugott Weinlig. The outer figure decorations were made by Johann Baptist Dorsch and Thaddäus Ignatius Wiskotschill . Dorsch created two sandstone lions at the main portal, two herms and the count's coat of arms; Wiskotschill lanterns, other herms and garden figures that were later set up in the Bürgerwiese . These sculptures were partially damaged by the air raids on Dresden in 1945 .
In 1835, the new owner, City Councilor Carl Ernst Werner, furnished rental apartments in the palace. The tenants included the sculptor Ernst Julius Hähnel and the composer Richard Wagner .
Todays situation
Today the baroque palace building with a Chinese and Pompeian room has been preserved. The paintings in the Pompeian room are by Johann Ludwig Giesel . The Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital has been housed in the palace since 1849 . To this end, additional buildings and conversions were made, as a result of which the French garden and the main axis were lost.
Historical events in the palace
Napoleon Bonaparte moved into the palace on June 10, 1813 . On June 26, 1813, there was a meeting with Prince Metternich . Metternich's attempt to induce Napoleon to make concessions in Poland, Prussia, Northern Germany and Illyria failed. The Austrian Empire therefore entered the war on August 11, 1813, and in the Treaty of Teplitz of September 9, 1813, the aim of the war was to restore the European balance.
literature
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
- Art in public space . Dresden Cultural Office, Dresden 1996.
- Daniel Jacob: Baroque aristocratic palaces in Dresden - the buildings, their architects and residents, Verlag Daniel Jacob, 2011, 219 pp.
proof
- ↑ Floor plan around 1736 in the State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Also Wolfram Siemann : Metternich. Statesman between restoration and modernity. CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 2010, 127 pages. ISBN 9783406587849
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '34 " N , 13 ° 43' 5.6" E