Sanspareil

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Sanspareil
Wonsees Market
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 4 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 55"  E
Height : 484  (470-500)  m
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 96197
Sanspareil from the west
Sanspareil from the south
Oriental construction
Sanspareil ruin theater
Park towards Burg Zwernitz

Sanspareil ([ sɑ̃paˈʀɛj ], German unparalleled , the locals pronounce the word Sanspareil in German, or Franconian: "Samberell") is a village in the Wonsees market in the district of Kulmbach ( Upper Franconia ), which runs through the Sanspareil rock garden below the medieval Hohenzollernburg Zwernitz got known.

Geographical location

The village of Sanspareil with Zwernitz Castle is located in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park and is about 20 km from Bayreuth in the east and 16 km from Kulmbach in the northeast. In the northern part of the Franconian Alb it nestles against a narrow dolomite rock (approx. 470 to 500  m above sea  level ). The village can be reached from the Schirradorf junction (No. 21) of the A 70 to the north . The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .

history

Margravine Wilhelmine von Bayreuth , sister of Frederick the Great , had this garden laid out in 1744. Joseph Saint-Pierre and Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi are named as architects of the rock garden . The name of the park goes back to the exclamation of a lady-in-waiting of the Bayreuth margrave : "C'est sans pareil!" ( This is unparalleled! ). Margravine Wilhelmine also intended to have the water features that were common at the time. However, given the location, this was not feasible with the resources at the time, so that the entire system could not be expanded further. The interest of the margravine therefore decreased significantly. The garden was completed by Margrave Carl Alexander . The rock theater was designed as a Roman ruin with a natural rock grotto serving as an auditorium.
In the following centuries the complex fell into disrepair. The many buildings disappeared because they were only made of wood - especially in the park - or were sold for demolition to make way for a street. At the moment only the oriental building, the rock theater and the kitchen building are left. In 1984 the lowered ground floor between the oriental building and the kitchen building was reconstructed based on an engraving from 1748.

Incorporation

On July 1, 1972, Sanspareil was incorporated into the Wonsees market.

investment

In the garden there are a large number of bizarre rock groups, a grotto, architectural elements and sculptures from Greek mythology . The most striking example is the rock theater in the form of an artificial ruin , which is still used, among other things by the Bayreuth studio stage . The entire ensemble was to form the backdrop for scenes from the novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse (German 1733 with the title: The strange incidents of Telemach ) by Archbishop François Fénelon . A similar rock garden is the Hermitage (Arlesheim) in Switzerland .

A tree grows in the small courtyard of the Oriental Building.

Others

In 1808 and 1809 Anna Margaretha Zwanziger committed two poison murders in Sanspareil .

The ensemble of park, oriental architecture and the medieval Zwernitz castle was named the most beautiful park in Germany by the Briggs & Stratton company in the summer of 2002.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

Web links

Commons : Sanspareil  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the BfN @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 452 .