Pagoda (Wilhelmshöhe)
The pagoda is a Chinese style pavilion in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel . It was built around 1781 as the center of the " Chinese village Mou-lang ". As a staffage building of the mountain park, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site of the landscape park since 2013 .
location
The village of Mou-lang (today: Mulang ) stretched on the south-eastern edge of the mountain park on both sides of the Mulang road . The pagoda is located below today's thoroughfare between the kitchen pavilion and a one-story chausseehaus (house no. 4). The former windmill, which formed the end of the ensemble, rose above the pagoda.
history
The "Chinese village" Mou-lang was built from 1781 under Landgrave Friedrich II . William Chambers' books on Chinese architecture and gardening are part of the historical holdings of the palace library. Landgrave Wilhelm IX. (since 1803 Elector Wilhelm I) had the village renewed in the classical style in 1791. However, the pagoda was preserved as an exotic structure. Under his successor, the Chinese temple was repainted in 1826.
Karl Paetow described it in 1928 as one of the most attractive buildings on Wilhelmshöhe . In 1933 the interior of the building was heavily modified and redesigned by the painter Wilhelm Blaue. After the end of the Second World War, damage to the interior was caused by vandalism. A renovation of the exterior took place in the mid-1950s. The damage to the interior was not repaired until 2007. In late 2018, the figure of the so-called Buddha of the future is to be restored by artists. The last two measures were particularly promoted by an association initiative.
description
While pagodas are multi-storey, this building is single-storey and corresponds to a tholos - a round building with a columnarea . The design adheres closely to a sample draft for a dining house (Banquetting House) by the Englishman Charles Over (Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern Taste [...]) from 1758. The rotunda shows eight wooden columns that were formerly made of ribbons wound around, marbled and today are designed in a single color in red. The walkway and the roof lantern have curved tent roofs. The building has only one door that opens to the north and was structured around 1825/1826 by painted pilasters and a continuous balustrade. The building receives its light through the colored glass lantern, the windows of which are divided into geometric shapes by bars.
The interior and exterior design comes from the sculptor Ludwig Daniel Heyd . The interior was described in 1791.
The crowning of the roof top in the 1950s with a golden “bell tree” with little bells does not correspond to the original design, but to the design for an aviary .
literature
- Maren Breakers-You: The Chinese Village of Mulang & the Pagoda. Plan and text. Citizens for the UNESCO World Heritage Park Wilhelmshöhe, Karlsaue and Wilhemsthal e. V., Kassel without a year.
Web links
- MHK : Pagoda, construction survey and draft for a new coat of paint, elevation. (Drawing around 1825/1826)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Paetow: Classicism and Romanticism at Wilhelmshöhe . Kassel 1929. p. 38.
- ↑ Barbara Häcker: The inhabitant of the pagoda , blog of the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel , October 5, 2018
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 42.1 ″ N , 9 ° 25 ′ 0.6 ″ E