Palais Buckeburg
The palace in Bückeburg (also: Herminen-Palais ) used to be the widow's seat of Princess Hermine zu Waldeck-Pyrmont (1827–1910) and is now the seat of a vocational school.
The palace
In the middle of the former royal seat of Bückeburg is the palace that served as the widow's seat of Princess Hermine, the widow of Prince Adolf I. Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe . The building, designed by the Hanoverian architect Hermann Schaedtler in historicism style for Prince Georg since 1882 and commissioned by the princely widow on June 25, 1893, was ready for occupancy at the end of 1896. It is located in its own park between Herminenstrasse, Birkenallee, Parkstrasse and Georgstrasse. The building made of Obernkirchen sandstone has a rectangular floor plan with a width of 55 m (north front) and a depth of 32.50 m. The round tower is 56 m high. The main portal is on the north side. On the south side facing the park there is a terrace surrounded by balustrades .
A main staircase lined with 16 columns leads from the foyer to the upper floor. A ceiling painting designed by the Hanoverian church painter Oscar Wichtendahl can be seen in the large ballroom .
During the Second World War, the venerable building served as a military hospital and later as an officers' mess for the Royal Air Force . In the 1950s, among other things, the agency for a large margarine factory was housed in the building. Other rooms were combined into individual apartments and rented out until 1955. In 1960, a school from the Schaumburg-Lippe house rented the princely palace for school operations and then bought it in 1969.
The renaissance style building was later renovated. In 1980 the building, which was badly damaged by fires in 1945 (roof structure) and 1964 (east tower), was restored using old construction documents.
Events in the Palais
The historical rooms are used for private and public events as well as for film and television productions. In 1960, Dr. Kurt Blindow offered the palace as a school building, only to purchase it in 1969 from the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe . For over 50 years the palace has served the students of the Bernd Blindow schools as a training facility.
literature
- Gabriele Zeitler-Abresch: The New Palais in Bückeburg in the work of the architect Hermann Schaedtler. A contribution to the villa architecture of the late 19th century. (= Publication of the architecture department of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne, 34.) Cologne 1987.
- Hermann Schaedtler: Building history of the new palace of your High Princely Highness Hermine, Princess Mother of Schaumburg-Lippe, Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont in Bückeburg. Hanover 1896 digitized
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.schaumburgerland-tourismus.de: Neues Palais Bückeburg , accessed on October 24, 2018
- ↑ ( http://blindow.de Bernd Blindow Schools)
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '22.2 " N , 9 ° 3' 7.3" E