New Palace (Arnstadt)
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The New Palais is located in Arnstadt in the Ilm district in Thuringia and today houses the Arnstadt Castle Museum. The castle museum owes its current holdings of art collections to both princely initiatives and the museum society founded in the late 19th century.
history
Prince Günther I von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1678–1740) left the princely palace in Arnstadt from 1729 to 1734 as a later widow's seat for his wife Elisabeth Albertine (1693–1774), née. Erect the Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg . The foundation stone was laid on May 25, 1729 in the absence of the royal couple. On November 10, 1734, the New Palace in Arnstadt was inaugurated. It served as a double palace in the form of a three-wing complex for the living and representation needs of the princely couple . The prince and his wife were able to accommodate and present their extensive art collections here.
After Prince Günther Victor von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1852–1925) abdicated on November 25, 1918 for the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen area - he had ruled the entire Schwarzburg area since 1909 after the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen line had died out. April the establishment of the “Museum Foundation in Arnstadt” through the resolution of the Landtag of the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen with the aim of making the New Palace in Arnstadt accessible to the public as a museum. The castle museum in Arnstadt today includes both the princely collections and the urban history collections. The Arnstadt Museum Society was founded in 1894. A year later, the members of the museum society called on the citizens of Arnstadt to collect objects for a future local museum. The rapidly growing collection was exhibited in the town hall in 1898 and moved to the New Palais in 1919.
The current castle museum in the New Palace is in the restored baroque rooms of the southern Beletage furniture and art treasures from the former princely stock. Almost 800 different objects such as Chinese and Japanese porcelain, stone carvings, faience and Meissen porcelain are shown in the almost original porcelain cabinet . In the picture cabinet, paintings and furniture (including two cabinets) from the princely collection are shown. In the pilaster room (also known as the small dining room) a selection of various early Meissen porcelains and Böttger stoneware is exhibited. The other accessible rooms on the piano nobile give an impression of the princely art collections under Prince Günther I and his wife Elisabeth Albertine: Flemish tapestries from the 16th century (e.g. “Monkeys at a feast in the forest”), Dorotheenthal faience and magnificent baroque goblets. The ballroom can be seen in its historic version from 1881, with three baroque chandeliers defining the impression of the room.
On the ground floor of the southern Corps de Logis , the guest can experience the doll town "Mon plaisir" , an art historical curiosity with the dolls of Princess Auguste Dorothea von Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (1666–1751), born Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, from which no longer exist Augustenburg Castle.
The permanent exhibition on Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) is located on the first top floor. The centerpiece of this exhibition is the organ console played by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
description
The main facade of the New Palais in Arnstadt faces east. The corps de logis has equipped 17 window axes and the central projection is emphasized by the high gate entrance and the arbor with golden balustrade. The triangular gable crowns the east facade. He bears the coats of arms of the princely couple - Günther I. von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Elisabeth Albertine, born. Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg. The south and north wings are also three-story and each have 7 (10) window axes. The facades are vertically structured by rusticated pilasters. The horizontal structure is done by surrounding cornices and simple, drilled window frames. The windows in the central projection are emphasized by simple triangular and round gables. On the courtyard side, the three-wing complex is adjoined to the west by a stables and to the south by the pleasure garden, in which an orangery stood until early 1989.
literature
- invented, researched, built, spirit of research and invention from Arnstadt. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2016.
- Annette Caroline Cremer: Mon Plaisir, the doll town of Auguste Dorothea von Schwarzburg (1666–1751). Böhlau, Weimar / Vienna 2015.
- Matthias Klein and Carola Müller: The Doll City in the Castle Museum in Arnstadt. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1994.
- Manfred Donhof: The New Palace in Arnstadt. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1988.
Web links
- Das Neue Palais on the website of the cultural institutions of the city of Arnstadt
Individual evidence
- ^ Hendrik Bärnighausen: On the history of the origins of the Princely Palais in Arnstadt. Laying of the foundation stone, topping-out ceremony and consecration. In: Thüringer Geschichtsverein Arnstadt eV (Hrsg.):: From the past of Arnstadt and the surrounding area. A local history reader . tape 3 . Arnstadt 1993, p. 27-31 .
- ↑ Kulturbetrieb der Stadt Arnstadt , accessed on March 18, 2018
- ^ Matthias Klein: 75 years of the Arnstadt Museum Foundation . In: Thüringer Geschichtsverein Arnstadt eV (Hrsg.):: From the past of Arnstadt and the surrounding area, a local history reading book . 4th issue. Arnstadt 1994, p. 26-30 .
- ↑ Antje Vanhoefen: The Arnstadt Castle Museum. A contribution to the development of a scientific institution and its collections . In: invented. explored. built. Research and inventiveness from Arnstadt . Erfurt 2016, p. 14-21 .
- ↑ Hartmut Fuhrmann: 1894-1994, Founding the Museum Society Arnstadt for a hundred years . In: Thüringer Geschichtsverein Arnstadt eV (Ed.): From the past of Arnstadt and the surrounding area. A local history reader . Issue 4. Arnstadt 1994, p. 40-46 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 6.9 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 0.3 ″ E