Parade bed

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The term parade bed is mostly used for the ceremonial reception bed of an absolutist ruler, sometimes also for a splendid laying out structure.

Courtly parade bed

Ludwig II's parade bed in Herrenchiemsee Palace

In the residences of Louis XIV , Maria Theresa and other rulers of the Baroque period, there were parade beds that served the ceremonial of the lever and couch or had a purely symbolic and representative meaning.

Parade bed as a catafalque

" Crown Prince Ernst August at the parade bed of his father / King George V. ";
1878 in Windsor , lithograph published by Bernhard Lenzesky, Hanover

→ Main article : Catafalk

In the context of funeral ceremonies , a parade bed is “a scaffolding hung with black fabric and otherwise decorated , on which the corpses of high-ranking people are publicly displayed”.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 15. Leipzig 1908, p. 415