Antoinettenruh Castle
engraving by Anton August Beck , around 1765
Antoinettenruh Castle was a pleasure palace that was located on the southwestern edge of the Lechlumer Holz on the road between Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig and that has no longer been preserved. It was built around 1733 for the Braunschweig duchess and later Duchess Antoinette Amalie , later served the Duchess Philippine Charlotte as a widow's residence and was demolished in 1832 with the exception of a few outbuildings. It is attributed to the architect Hermann Korb .
description
The half-timbered castle, built in 1733, was a relatively wide building, the two-story middle section of which was flanked by two rather long, one and a half-story wing structures. The central building had a central risalit framed by square pilasters . The broken roof had a curved main gable with a clock and thirteen attic windows. The stairwell faced the back of the building. The wing buildings each had three risalits and five mansard windows on the upper mezzanine. To the right of the castle, i.e. east of the road to Braunschweig, there were some outbuildings. In each of the wings there was a garden room and four rooms.
The garden faced Wolfenbüttel Castle , the cityscape and the Vorharz region. It was divided architecturally and by raised terraces. The beech stocks of the Lechlumer wood were partly integrated into the garden. There was a round temple in which Antoinette Amalie was to be buried. However, she was not buried there.
history
As early as 1688/89 there is a mention of a “princely pleasure house”. In 1702, Duke Rudolf August had a 38- acre , slightly elevated garden laid out here not far from the "Sternhaus" that still exists today, and plans for a castle made, which were probably only implemented later. Between 1717 and 1720 a greenhouse was built by the architect Johann Martin Anhalt . During this time, an old and a new “pleasure house” are also mentioned. The Duke Ludwig Rudolf , who resided in Blankenburg , stayed here during his visits to Wolfenbüttel. Stucco work in the summer houses and the decoration of the garden with sculptures by the sculptor Heinrich Eversmann from Blankenburg are documented from his time .
Ludwig Rudolf later had a summer residence built for his daughter, Antoinette Amalie (1696–1762), who later became the wife of Duke Ferdinand Albrecht II . This was named Antoinettenruh and had her monogram on the gable. She still lived here as a widow. Although it was her wish, she was not buried here.
After her death, another duchess, Philippine Charlotte, wife of Charles I and sister Friedrich II, moved in here with her youngest daughter Auguste Dorothea . She organized concerts and cultural evenings in the summer months. Friedrich II was a guest several times.
In May 1807, Jérôme Bonaparte stayed a few hours in Antoinettenruh. In 1832 Charles II had the castle demolished. The garden and some outbuildings were only preserved for a few years. One of them was converted into a forester's house, another into an inn. Pictures and furniture were sold.
literature
- Wolfgang Kelsch: Schloss Antoinettenruh in Wolfenbüttel - a youth drawing by Leo von Klenze , published in Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 63, 1982.
- Paul Jonas Meier : The architectural and art monuments of the city of Wolfenbüttel , published by Julius Zwissler, 1904.
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Burgen und Schlösser des Braunschweiger Land , orphanage printing house and publishing house, Braunschweig 1980, Das Schloß Antoinettenruh , ISBN 3-87884-012-8 , pp. 66-67.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 55 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 9 ″ E