Prinzenhaus (Gotha)

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The Prinzenhaus with courtyard seen from Salzengasse

The Prince House was a Rococo - town house and was located between the Salzgasse and Hützelsgasse in Gotha . Its most famous resident was Friedrich Melchior Grimm .

history

After returning from his first trip to Italy in 1772, Prince August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg acquired some land in Salzengasse. The prince's house was built on the purchased land between 1773 and 1777 by the Oberhofmeister von Werther. Between 1777 and 1778 the prince went on a second trip to Italy and in 1780 acquired the courtyard and garden from the valet Schmidt and seven other garden plots in the Große Allee in front of Siebleber Tor, today's Friedrichstrasse. There he had today's Prinzenpalais built between June 1780 and April 1783 and then probably lost interest in the Prinzenhaus.

In 1775 Regina Strinasacchi moved in with her future husband Johann Konrad Schlick . Prince August had a bachelor apartment set up in the side building for Schlick.

From 1795 (or 1794) the baron Friedrich Melchior Grimm lived in the prince's house with his adoptive family (with interruptions). This was preceded by an offer from Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , who offered Grimm asylum in the royal seat. Among other things, Grimm was friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who verifiably visited him here several times.

The "Evangelical Lutheran Cross Church" founded in Gotha in 1938 initially used the Prinzenhaus for their services. Due to a lack of space, however, these services soon took place in the castle church at Friedenstein Castle.

After that there was a restaurant in the Prinzenhaus, the "Prinzenhaus Restaurant". In 1981 the large-scale demolition of the western old town took place, during which the prince's house was also destroyed. Today nothing in this place reminds of the prince's house.

building

The prince's house was a two-story building with a mansard roof . The facade facing Hützelsgasse had eleven axes and a decorated gable . In addition, there was a festoon above the window of the central projectile on the first floor and below the one on the gable of the attic floor. The facade facing Salzengasse had nine axes and lay in a courtyard, surrounded by side buildings and stables. There was the entrance to the palace, which was decorated with rococo ornaments.

literature

  • Gisa Steguweit: The double happiness of tones and love. Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH / Nordhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95948-398-8 .
  • Matthias Wenzel: Time jumps Gotha. Sutton Verlag GmbH / Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978395400-055-5 .
  • Winfried Wolf: Friedrich Melchior, Grimm an enlightenment from Regensburg. epubli / 2017, ISBN 978-3745006308 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ThStA Gotha Secret Archive E XIII B. c. No. 1a (delta) (Chatoul editions Prince August). Construction bills from Salzengasse and the new building at the garden. The latter led by Chamberlain Baron von Thümmel June 2, 1780 to April 13, 1783.
  2. ↑ Kreuzgemeinde Gotha

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 54.2 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 53.5 ″  E