Palace and Baroque Hall (Rostock)
The palace and the baroque hall form an ensemble of buildings on the Universitätsplatz in Rostock . The palace was built in the 18th century to accommodate the Mecklenburg Duke during his stay in Rostock. The baroque hall is a later addition and was used as a theater and ballroom. Today the tourist information office is located on the ground floor and the hall is used again as a festival and chamber music hall.
Palace
The former ducal palace is a simple baroque three-storey building. It was built in 1714 by Leonhard Christoph Sturm using older components on behalf of the Duke of Mecklenburg Carl Leopold as a residence for stays in Rostock. On the ground floor and the upper floors, stucco ceilings are still preserved, some of which come from the previous building, some from the year of construction 1714.
According to dendrochronological dating, the palace was redesigned in a classical style by Carl Theodor Severin in the years 1832–34, together with the adjoining hall building . The palace is used by the university. The Rostock Student Cellar is located in the barrel-vaulted cellar, which was taken over from the previous building .
The restoration of the Green Hall from 1620, which therefore belongs to an older side wing of the palace on Schwaanschen Strasse , is planned for 2018 . Among other things, the original diamond-shaped patterned parquet floor is to be exposed and the room color to be approximately restored.
Baroque hall
The younger, former ducal court theater, which is now generally known as the Baroque Hall, is attached to the palace. It was built in 1747–1751 as a two-storey, seven-axis building by Jean Laurent Legeay at the request of the art-loving Duke Christian Ludwig . A special feature is the balcony grille with the bull's head as the Mecklenburg heraldic animal on the upper floor. The passage under the building for Schwaansche Strasse was not laid out until 1910. The Rostock tourist information office is located on the ground floor of the building .
The baroque hall on the upper floor is often rented out by the Hanseatic City of Rostock for concerts, receptions and theater productions, but also for readings and conferences. The hall has a wooden mirror vault, the wall structure is determined by window niches with partly freely hanging carved festoon garlands. Between the windows there are portraits of princes from the construction period. The baroque hall was restored between 1963 and 1968 and brought up to the current technical standard between 2007 and 2010.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , pp. 522-523.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , p. 357 .
- ↑ Information on the planned restoration on the website of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Construction and Real Estate Company. Retrieved March 20, 2018 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 6.1 ″ E