Mon plaisir (doll town)

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Arnstadt, baroque doll town Mon plaisir, noble lady
Arnstadt, baroque doll town Mon plaisir, noble lady

Mon plaisir (French: my pleasure ) is a miniature city for dolls made by Princess Auguste Dorothea von Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (1666–1751), born Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. This baroque doll town comprises 82 individual scenes and is unique in this size. The collection is presented in the palace museum in the New Palace in Arnstadt in Thuringia .

Scene from the baroque doll town Mon plaisir in the Arnstadt Castle Museum

It was made for the princess, wife of Anton Günther II of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (1653-1716) . The first scenes of this were probably created around 1700. This city, consisting of numerous dollhouses in specially made showcases, was never intended as a toy, but stands in the tradition of the baroque chambers of curiosities . The aim was to reproduce the reality of life in the corporate society of that time with the nobility , bourgeoisie and peasantry .

The princely residence is depicted in numerous rooms, with dolls in each room depicting courtly life: the princess with maid in the morning toilet , the princess in the nursery, the barber with the prince, an evening party at court, the Chamber music , the court kitchen, the palace garden, the art chamber and much more. The town also contains a court theater, a church, and scenes from monastic life . Numerous craft businesses and a market represent bourgeois life. The doll town is populated by over 400 dolls, which were probably made and clothed by hand by the princess's court .

The puppet complex has been owned by the Arnstadt Museum Foundation since 1932.

Stamps of Germany (DDR) 1974, MiNr 1977.jpg
Stamps of Germany (DDR) 1974, MiNr 1978.jpg
Stamps of Germany (DDR) 1974, MiNr 1979.jpg


Motifs of the doll town on a series of GDR stamps from 1974

literature

  • Christian August Vulpius : The strange doll cabinet at Monplaisir, within Arnstadt . In: Curiosities of the physical-literary-artistic-historical past and present , vol. 8, Weimar 1820, pp. 426–433 ( digitized version ).
  • Matthias Klein, Carola Müller: The doll town in the castle museum in Arnstadt. ( The Blue Books ) 3rd edition, Langewiesche, Königstein i. Ts. 1999, ISBN 3-7845-1172-4 .
  • Anette Cremer: Mon Plaisir. The doll town of Auguste Dorothea von Schwarzburg (1666–1751) . Böhlau, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22399-1 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 5 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 59 ″  E