Mou-long
The "Chinese village" Mou-lang was built in 1781 in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel . It gave its name to the Mulang residential area, which was built around 100 years later. Of the 21 buildings, 13 are still preserved today, including the so-called “ pagoda ”. They have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013 .
location
The village of Mou-lang stretched on the south-eastern edge of the mountain park on both sides of today's Mulangstrasse. It was a way of the park when it was created. Today the thoroughfare cuts through the ensemble of the buildings that have been preserved and also has hedges separating them. The mosque did not belong to the actual village, was a little older than this and stood on the way between Mou-Lang and the castle.
history
The ensemble of the "Chinese village" Mou-lang was built from 1781 under Landgrave Friedrich II . The planner was the court gardener Daniel August Schwarzkopf . William Chambers' books on Chinese architecture and gardening are part of the historical holdings of the palace library. The design and scenery also included exotic birch trees , Chinese cake and handkerchief trees as well as the “Kiang” (江, Jiāng ) river below the dining room, it flowed into the “Styx” river, which fell victim to the construction of the castle pond or “Lac” fell. Landgrave Wilhelm IX. (since 1803 Elector Wilhelm I) renewed and developed the village after the death of his father. He also officially established the name Mou-lang in 1791. In the same year Heinrich Christoph Jussow's apartment became a bagatelle village residence and pleasure house for the landgrave.
The village was as Chinoiserie the rococo built and should serve the nobility as a backdrop of supposedly beautiful countryside. However, it should also supply the farm with milk and agricultural products. However, agriculture remained unprofitable and was leased in 1797, and a brandy distillery was added in 1798.
In 1826, under Wilhelm II , the houses in Mou-lang were renovated for 6,000 Reichstaler. Switzerland was also moved to the village. The houses were later occupied by park attendants and guards.
Since June 23, 2013, the buildings with the mountain park have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The buildings of the village of Mou-lang
The buildings were built in 1782–1785 according to plans by Simon Louis du Ry . At first they were made of wood and had thatched roofs. The wooden houses were replaced by stone buildings by 1826.
| building | built | description | renewed | Status location |
image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gatehouse No. 1 |
1791 | Porter's house or supervisor's apartment | preserved (location) |
|
|
|
Bagatelle house No. 2 |
1782 | Jussow's apartment, later the landgrave's village residence; Coffee industry at the beginning of the 20th century | preserved (location) |
|
|
| kitchen | 1782-1785 | Kitchen: one-storey square building with tent roof and lantern; later the cemetery morgue | preserved (location) |
|
|
| Dining room | 1791 | Chinese dining room of the village, renovated after 1813, demolished in 1855 | aborted (location) |
||
| Milk room | 1782-1785 | Milk room: one-storey square building with a tent roof and lantern | preserved (location) |
|
|
|
Saalwächter's apartment house no.3 |
1782-1785 | House of the hall guard | preserved (location) |
|
|
| pagoda | 1776-1782 | Pagoda, modified in 1933 | renovated around 1955 | preserved (location) |
|
| House number 5 | 1790 | front cowshed, two-story half-timbered building; Early 20th century school | Refurbished 2015–2018 | preserved (location) |
|
| House number 7 | 1782-1785 | Cowshed, two-storey | preserved (location) |
|
|
| Sheepfold house number 8 |
1794-1795 | Sheepfold | 1826 changed in a classical style | preserved (location) |
|
| House number 4 | Residential building | preserved (location) |
|
||
| House number 6 | 1790 | House with a tent roof | preserved (location) |
|
|
| House number 9 | 1782-1785 | Residential house with tent roof and lantern | preserved (location) |
|
|
| House number 10 | 1782-1785 | House with tent roof and lantern; Extension of a house after 1913 | preserved (location) |
|
|
| Windmill | 1784-1785 | small windmill so as not to disturb the perspective | Renewed in 1791 | aborted (location) |
Partial elevation |
| Shepherd's house | aborted (location) |
||||
| Shepherd's house | aborted (location) |
||||
| Dairy house | aborted (location) |
||||
| Chafing | 1796 | Designed by Jussow in the classical style | aborted (location) |
draft | |
| pavilion | 1791– | Chinese style pavilion on the island in Lac | canceled | ||
| mosque | 1780 (before) | The mosque had one main and two side domes as well as two flanking minarets , which were still preserved in 1855 as the entrance building of the pheasantry. | aborted (location) |
literature
- Maren Breakers-You: The Chinese Village of Mulang & the Pagoda. Plan and text. Citizens for the UNESCO World Heritage Park Wilhelmshöhe, Karlsaue and Wilhemsthal e. V., Kassel without a year.
Web links
- Buildings in Mulang (entries of existing buildings in OpenStreetMap )
Map with all coordinates: