Palais Weimar (Heidelberg)
The Heidelberg Palais Weimar is a baroque building in Heidelberg . It's at the east end of the main street ( main street 235 ). It is named after Prince Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , from whom Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt and the von Portheim Foundation established by him to house the collections took over in 1921 . Today it houses the foundation's ethnological museum .
The main building with the courtyard is flanked by two side wings facing the main street. On the Neckar side is the garden and a large sandstone terrace.
history
The building was built between 1710 and 1714 by Johann Adam Breunig as the city residence of the city commandant General von Freudenberg-Mariotte. After the government of the Electorate of the Palatinate had temporarily set up a calico and leather factory there, from 1784 the palace was the seat of the High Camera School , which had moved from Kaiserslautern, and the home of Georg Adolf Suckow , who taught chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics there. The school had a well-equipped chemical laboratory for the time, which was housed in the west wing of the palace.
The Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg named the building Monument of the Month for October 2017 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum: The Palais Weimar. Völkerkundemuseum VPST, accessed on December 27, 2017 .
- ^ University of Heidelberg - Sightseeing Chemistry
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '48.1 " N , 8 ° 42' 53.9" E