Orangery (Ellingen)

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Eastern orangery building

The orangery in Ellingen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ), consists of two orangery buildings that were built around 1740. The buildings are located at the southern exit of the village, at the end of Weißenburger Straße. They are available as part of the Hofgarten under the monument number D-5-77-125-136 as a monument to the Bavarian monument list entered.

description

Location of the orangery at the southern entrance to the city

In the walled rectangular complex - with a round tower and fragments of two further corner towers - two orangery buildings were built around 1740 according to plans by the master builder Franz Joseph Roth . They were built in natural stone and have cornices and rich baroque gable decoration . The two buildings are almost identical, they have high arched doors on the ground floor and a mezzanine-like attic under the pent roof . The cornice bears the coat of arms of Landkomtur Karl Heinrich von Hornstein .

literature

  • City of Ellingen (Hrsg.): The baroque tour . Ellingen 2006.
  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Former court garden in the monument list of the city of Ellingen ( Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation )

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '27.2 "  N , 10 ° 58' 3.5"  E