Rauenstein New Castle Museum
The Museum Neues Schloss Rauenstein is located in Rauenstein , a district of the Frankenblick community in the Sonneberg district ( Thuringia ). The museum was opened in 1999 as the Rauensteiner Porzellankabinett .
history
A building designated as a new castle is documented for the year 1615 in Rauenstein. Between 1687 and 1690, Hans Siegmund von Schaumberg had a new castle built, which probably included the barrel vaults of the previous building in the northwest. The originally two-storey building was increased by one storey in 1714. In 1729, Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen acquired the property from Hans Siegmund von Schaumberg. In 1785, the porcelain factory Friedrich Christian Greiner and Sons, founded in Rauenstein in 1783, bought the vacant palace and subsequently used it as a production building. In 1790 the northwest wing was expanded. The first manufacture was located in the castle. In 1881 Franklin Georgii acquired the company and arranged for a stately apartment to be built in the castle. The associated work included, among other things, a flight of stairs to the first floor and today's main entrance on the south-west facade. In 1930 the Rauenstein porcelain factory filed for bankruptcy and in 1934 the property became the property of the municipality. In 1935, the municipal administration moved into the castle. In the 1950s, the building complex was converted for administrative and residential purposes as well as a local museum.
In 1999 a museum was opened in the palace with a cabinet exhibition on the history of the Rauenstein porcelain factory "Friedrich Christian Greiner & Sons". It also houses an exhibition on the Bleßberg cave and an extensive collection of dolls and bears from the Schildkröt company . From 2012 the building was renovated and modernized due to structural defects and mold growth. The New Rauenstein Castle has been reopened as a museum since September 11, 2016.
architecture
The three-storey, listed baroque building stands at the foot of an eastern slope. It shapes the townscape on the northern market square. The two lower floors have a plastered facade made of quarry stone masonry , which is structured by window frames and corner blocks. The upper floor consists of a half-timbered construction. A mansard roof with dormer windows forms the end . The building has an F-shaped floor plan with a south-west wing, the long south-east wing along the street and the inner, short north-west wing that houses the staircase that symmetrically opens up the south-east wing. The north-west wing was extended in 1790 by a half-timbered construction. A second staircase has been located in the south-west wing since the renovation in 1881. A wooden tea pavilion with a pair of figures stood on a terrace in front of the southwest wing.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: District of Sonneberg. (Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Thuringia 1.) E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, p. 207.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 10.8 ″ N , 11 ° 3 ′ 10.6 ″ E