Castle Garden Salon (Merseburg)
The Schlossgarten Salon is a building belonging to the listed castle garden in the city of Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located at the northern end of the palace garden, west above the course of the Saale .
Architecture and history
The two-storey building was built from 1727 according to plans by Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt in the Baroque style on behalf of Duke Moritz Wilhelm von Sachsen-Merseburg and was intended to serve as a ballroom for garden parties. The building was completed between 1731 and 1735. The facade of the palace garden salon, which was built on a rectangular floor plan, has 13 axes and faces south towards the palace garden. Three axes each on the east and west side emerge from the building as side risers . They are each covered by a small gable . The ground floor has a Tuscan portico on the south side, which originally opened onto the garden through French doors. The pillars on the ground floor are rusticated and continue on the upper floor in the form of pilasters . The house is covered with a mansard hipped roof . A staircase was later added to the rear.
There were originally 14 statues of Roman gods in front of the pillars in the pillared hall, but they were removed in 1836.
From 1825, the house served temporarily as a meeting place for the representatives of the Prussian province of Saxony , the then provincial parliament and forerunner of today's state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . The second floor of the castle was used by the state commissioner , the palace garden salon by the provincial parliament . In addition to the large drawing room, the house contained four large and two small rooms that were used by the committees. In order to be able to use the house, a thorough renovation was necessary. Since the sessions of the state parliament took place in winter, it was particularly necessary to replace the stoves and seal the windows. The cost of the renovation in 1838 was Reichstaler.
The building was damaged in a bombing raid on July 28, 1944 during World War II . The west side was particularly affected. Damage had also occurred to the roof and windows. The damage also caused sponges to form, which destroyed the wooden ceilings and the stairwell. The building was gutted between 1948 and 1953 and new ceilings were added. In the stairwell, the double flight of stairs was replaced by a single flight of concrete stairs . Another renovation took place in 1995.
Orangery buildings were originally added on both the west and east sides. The western orangie cultivation was destroyed in the bombing in 1944 and the remains were then torn down. The eastern extension served as a restaurant from 1968.
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch, Marina Meincke-Floßfeder: List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 6.1, Merseburg-Querfurt district (I), Merseburg district. Flugkopf Verlag, Halle 2000, ISBN 3-910147-66-6 , p. 141.
- Jürgen Jankofsky : Small guide through Merseburg . 1992, p. 37.
- Peter Ramm / Hans-Joachim Krause: Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt II: administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , p. 552.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Segler: The first Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony in 1825, Diss., 1931, pp. 18, 19.
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '40.3 " N , 12 ° 0' 0.9" E