Prinz-Carl-Palais (Darmstadt)
The Prinz-Carl-Palais was a city palace of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and has been the seat of the State Insurance Institute ( Deutsche Rentenversicherung Hessen ) in Darmstadt - Bessungen , Wilhelminenstrasse 34 , since 1900 . At the time of construction it was located south of the center of Darmstadt, a few hundred meters from the New Palace , but already in the Bessunger district at that time .
history
The neoclassical city palace was the second son of Grand Duke Ludwig II. Of Hesse and by Rhine ( Hesse-Darmstadt ), Prince Karl Wilhelm Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine for himself and his wife, the Prussian Princess Marie Elisabeth Karoline Victoria of Prussia , by Georg Moller was built as a city residence from 1834 to 1836. After their prince wedding in Berlin on October 22, 1836 , they were able to move into the newly built palace on their return to Darmstadt. Elisabeth's legacy came from the famous Darmstadt Madonna . In addition to the listed opera Johann von Paris , the entry of the prince couple into Darmstadt also included a large redoubt , a masked ball for 2500 people of all levels and classes in the Darmstadt court theater .
1862 was the Palais endpoint of the wedding procession from Darmstadt train station to his father's palace after in England made wedding of the later Hessian Grand Duke and son Charles, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig IV. Charles of Hesse and by Rhine , with the princess and second daughter of the British Queen Victoria , Alice Maud Mary of Great Britain and Ireland , and her return to Darmstadt.
Building description
On the originally three-storey, nine-axis palace with a detached attic , with small, slightly oval skylights and a hipped roof that is now copper-plated , the attic area was later expanded as a roof and fourth storey. The original structure was later connected to the building that adjoins at right angles at the intersection with today's Annastraße by a single-storey porch with a balustrade . The sixteen-axis symmetrical building along Annastrasse also has a ledge between the ground floor and first floor, just like the original palace. In the east as a gable roof , it is also designed as a hipped roof at an angle. Both structures have separate entrances in the inner courtyard. The entrance of the former city palace is a three-row central risalit , the central window front was designed as a double window. The wide marble internal staircase in strict construction, which resembles the later Bauhaus style, is worth seeing .
The most famous room in the city palace was the so-called "Blue Room of Princess Elisabeth", which was furnished in the Biedermeier style and provided with blue wallpaper .
The last major change was implemented several times in 1927 by the architect Peter Müller . The former city palace is now a monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Original steel engraving from 1849
The blue room
literature
- Peter and Marion Sattler: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald , Verlag Edition Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , p. 32
- Marie Frölich, Hans-Günther Sperlich: Georg Moller, Baumeister der Romantik , Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1965, p. 186 ff.
Web links
- Entry on Prinz-Carl-Palais in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Today only as a branch of the LVA
- ↑ a b Friedrich Battenberg, Jürgen Rainer Wolf, Eckhart G. Franz, Fritz Deppert: Darmstadts Geschichte - Fürstenresidenz und Bürgerstadt im Wandel des Centers, Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-7929-0110-2 . P. 331, p. 364
- ↑ Andreas Dobler: Interiors of the Biedermeier Period: Room aquarelle from princely castles owned by the House of Hesse , (Ed .: Hess. House Foundation) exhibition catalog, Petersberg-Bonn 2004, p. 171
- ^ Mary Ellen Best (British painter , 1809 - 1891): Princess Elisabeth's blue room in the Prinz-Carl-Palais, Darmstadt , dated 1849, painted in gouache and watercolors, picture in private ownership
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 55 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 12" E