Monrepos (Vyborg)

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Monrepos in autumn

Monrepos ( Russian Монрепо / Monrepo ; from French Mon repos ; My resting place ) is a landscape park north of the old town of Vyborg in Russia near the Finnish border. The mansion dates from the early 19th century and belonged to the Barons of Nicolay from 1788 until World War II.

Manor house around 1830

geography

The park in the north of Vyborg covers about 180  hectares and is located in a forest south of a branch of the Vyborg Bay . The area is characterized by the Precambrian Wiborgite, which was named after Vyborg and is a variety of the Rapakiwi granite, which is very well known as a natural stone , as well as from the Ice Age formations on it. The flora and fauna of the park are rich.

history

Before the Nicolay family, the governor of Vyborg was the owner, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Prince of Württemberg, who later became King Frederick I of Württemberg. The naming of the estate is also attributed to him. In 1788 he sold Monrepos to Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay , the secretary of the young Paul I. The family of Nicolay redesigned the park according to a plan by JA Martinelli and their own ideas. Numerous artists and famous architects , such as Auguste de Montferrand or Pietro Gonzago, were active here.

Today the manor house is the only remaining wooden classical building in the entire Petersburg region. Comparable is Stiftsgården , the residence of the Norwegian royal family in Trondheim , also made of wood . Monrepos suffered a lot from the Second World War and is constantly being restored. The library, collections, works of art and manuscripts are now largely owned by the University and the Helsinki Museum Office through donations and purchases .

After Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Karl took office in Württemberg in 1797, he had an unfinished castle on Lake Eglosheim near Ludwigsburg rebuilt based on the model of his former Finnish castle. Instead of the baroque garden , an English landscape park was created, which is clearly based on Monrepos near Vyborg. After the completion of the property, the now Württemberg elector gave it the same name: Seeschloss Monrepos .

literature

in alphabetical order

  • Paul Gundersen: Paul Nicolay of Monrepos - a European with a difference . Näkymä, Publishers, Helsinki 2003.
  • Edmund Heier: LH Nicolay (1737-1820) and his contemporaries . Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1965.
  • Rainer Knapas: Monrepos, Ludwig Heinrich Nicolay och hans värld i 1700-talets ryska Finland . Atlantis, Stockholm 2003.
  • Rainer Knapas: Monrepos, une arcadie des lumières, Saint-Pétersbourg, Vyborg, Helsinki . Société de Littérature Finnoise, Helsinki 2008.
  • Renée Elton Maud: One Year at the Russian Court: 1904–1905 . John Lane, London 1918-
  • Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay : The Monrepos estate in Finland = facsimile of the edition from 1840. Pückler-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Berlin 1995.
  • Eeva Ruoff: The Finnish Monrepos. “A garden for the heart, a garden for the spirit” . In: Die Gartenkunst 4 (1/1992), pp. 35–54.

Web links

Commons : Monrepos  - collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′ 55 "  N , 28 ° 43 ′ 40"  E