New Hummelshain hunting lodge
The New Hummelshain Hunting Lodge is a castle in the municipality of Hummelshain in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia . It was built from 1880 in Wilhelmine historicism ( Neo-Gothic , Neo-Renaissance ).
Duke Ernst I of Saxony-Altenburg commissioned Paul Stegmüller and Ernst von Ihne with the construction of a new, more representative hunting lodge in Hummelshain. It was completed in 1885, making it the last new palace to be built in Thuringia.
The 48 meter high tower of the castle can be seen from afar. The surrounding arcade, the dome and four watch towers are reminiscent of the Old Town Bridge Tower in Prague. The representative rooms on the first and second floors were used for celebrations.
In the opinion of its friends' association, the castle is in decline . There were only emergency safeguards after the castle was sold to a Leipzig company in 1998 by the Thuringian state development company. In 2016, the Friends' Association took the first security measures with monument funds from the Free State of Thuringia. In 2017 the castle was classified as a monument of national importance by the expert committee of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
literature
- Ernst von Ihne, Paul Stegmüller: Hummelshain Castle. Summer residence of the Duke of Altenburg . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 16 (1882), No. 18, urn : nbn: de: kobv: co1-opus-16249 , pp. 99–100. (Two illustrations)
- Claudia and Rainer Hohberg: The Hummelshain hunting castles and the Rieseneck hunting complex . Förderverein Schloss Hummelshain 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039242-9
- Claudia and Rainer Hohberg: New Hummelshain Castle. Hunting and residential palace. Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2016, Schnell Art Guide No. 2866, ISBN 978-3-7954-7059-3
Web links
- New Hummelshain Castle ( Memento from March 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at burgeninventar.de
- Friends of Hummelshain Castle on the old and new Hummelshain Hunting Lodge
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 12.5 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 40 ″ E