Temple of the Muses in Tiefurt Castle Park

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The Temple of the Muses and its Calliope sculpture in the Tiefurt Castle Park

The temple of the Muses with a calliope by Martin Gottlieb Klauer on a square base in the middle was built in 1803 in the 21 hectare castle park Tiefurt near Weimar . That Klauer means Kalliope and not Polyhymnia can be seen from his catalog of the Toreutik bas-reliefs . The Polyhymnia here also has a lyre , but the Calliope with the same posture as the one in Tiefurt does not. Along with the tea house, it is one of the most important components of Tiefurt's park architecture. But it already had a predecessor, initiated by Anna Amalia and built in 1784, which was to remind of the ancient Tibur . Before that, the figure group Kaunos and Byblis , which was also created by Martin Gottlieb Klauer in 1780, was located here . It is a copy of this group based on a cast from the Mannheim Antique Hall, which Anna Amalia ordered from Johann Heinrich Merck . This group of figures came to the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in 1807 .

Temple of the Muses, detail view

The figure of Calliope came to this place a little later after the temple was rebuilt. After Anna Amalia's death in 1807, the group of figures Kaunos and Byblis in Stein came to the Anna Amalia library . Another group is located in the Weimar City Palace . This in the library was made by Klauer in 1780 based on a limestone cast of the group of figures in Mannheim in 1779 . Accordingly, it is also the one who had stood in Tiefurt.

There is an elaborately designed ornamental planting around the temple. Standing on a hexagonal base, the Monopteros with a pointed slate roof and roof pommel rests on six Ionic columns .

The Weimar Musenhof , oil painting by Theobald von Oer from 1860

Theobald von Oer painted a scene at this point in an idealized view in 1860, in which Friedrich Schiller , Goethe and Carl August, facing each other, were performing a play before the Weimar court society. The Temple of the Muses can only be understood in connection with the so-called Weimar Court of the Muses .

As part of the castle park Tiefurt it belongs since 1998 as part of the ensemble Classical Weimar for UNESCO - World Heritage Site .

The extensive clearing of the woods around the borders that line the temple was probably carried out under Eduard Petzold . The planting in its present form goes back to him.

Web links

Commons : Tempel (Schlosspark Tiefurt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Horn, Tiefurter Miniatures. Forays through a garden monument of the Weimar Classic, Jena 2001, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Description and index of the TOREVTICA-WAARE of the Klauer art factory in Weimar, ed. by Martin Gottlieb Klauer. With copper. (Zweyter booklet), Weimar 1800, plate XV no.104 (Kalliope) and no.111 (Polyhymnia). Digitally at https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/image/924548908/1/LOG_0003/
  3. ↑ Anna Amalia, Carl August and the Weimar event By Hellmut Seemann, Yearbook 2007, p. 262.

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 41.3 ″  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 1.6 ″  E