Palais Reichenbach (Kassel)

View of Friedrichsplatz and Obere Königsstrasse around 1840. In the center of the picture the White Palace , on the right the Red Palace . In the Königsstraße, behind the White Palace, on the left the Palais Reichenbach (with flat gable), then the Palais Hessen-Rotenburg

The Palais Reichenbach when demolition began in November 2005

The Palais Reichenbach was a princely city palace on the Obere Königsstraße in Kassel .

history

The building complex, demolished in 2006 (today Obere Königsstrasse 30), was built in 1772 between the later White Palace and the Palais Hessen-Rotenburg . After his clients, the Hessian Major General, Director of the Landgrave Baude Partments and Minister of State Johann Wilhelm von Gohr, it was originally called "Palais Gohr" or simply "House Gohr".

After Elector Wilhelm II ascended the throne in 1821 and expanded the White Palais into an electoral residence, his lover Countess Reichenbach (née Emilie Ortlöpp) lived in the former Palais Gohr. The staircase and the side wing with the ballroom, which was preserved until the demolition in 2006, date from this time. The renovation work was led by the court architect Johann Conrad Bromeis . After Countess Reichenbach, the wife of the last Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I , Gertrude Countess von Schaumburg , Princess of Hanau moved in. During this time the palace, which was now included in the overall complex of the Residenzpalais, was also called “Palais Hanau” and “Kleines Palais”.

In Prussian times (after 1866) the connecting doors to the White Palace were walled up first (1870), then the building was sold in its entirety in 1881. The “Palais-Restaurant”, which was very popular at the time, was built on the ground floor, in which the historical furnishings with stucco ceilings, decorative paintings and silk wallpaper were still visible. It was later converted into the "Hacker-Bräu".

In the course of the Second World War , the palace burned after a British bombing raid in September 1941 and the facade facing Königsstrasse was lost. During the reconstruction around 1950, the staircase and side wing were integrated into a new building - with its elegant plastered facade and high-quality details of the representative staircase one of the best examples of private house architecture of that time (the facade was clad around 1980).

This entire complex, including the remaining historical building fabric, was demolished piece by piece in the summer of 2006 to make way for a new business and office building. During the demolition work, the remains of the Palais Hessen-Rotenburg, which had already been laid down in 1911, were exposed. An archaeological record of the finds was not carried out.

literature

Alois Holtmeyer : The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region, Bd. VI. Marburg 1923

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Cornelius Steckner: The “beautification” of Kassel under Friedrich II. Indications of urban redevelopment by the building department under Johann Wilhelm von Gohr and Claude Nicolas LeDoux. In: Urban planning and urban development in Kassel in the 18th century. Kassel, 1983 (Kasseler Hefte für Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstpädagogik 5), pp. 33–51.

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[1] Cornelius Steckner: The “beautification” of Kassel under Friedrich II. Indications of urban redevelopment by the building department under Johann Wilhelm von Gohr and Claude Nicolas LeDoux. In: Urban planning and urban development in Kassel in the 18th century. Kassel, 1983 (Kasseler Hefte für Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstpädagogik 5), pp. 33–51.