Dreianzigacker Castle

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Dreianzigacker Castle from the southwest

The Dreianzigacker Castle is a Baroque palace in the Drei 30sacker district of the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen . It is located on the southern outskirts of Dreianzigacker at an altitude of 430 m above sea level, around 2.2 kilometers as the crow flies from the city center of Meiningen (Markt). In the first half of the 18th century, Drei 30acker Castle was considered the most important pleasure palace of the Meiningen dukes.

history

In 1710, Duke Ernst Ludwig I of Meiningen had a hunting lodge built in Dreiässigacker. From 1743 to 1785 it was owned by the Duchess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha . In 1801 Johann Matthäus Bechstein founded a school for forestry and hunting in the castle. In 1803, Duke Georg I of Saxony-Meiningen raised the institute to the status of the first forest academy in what is now Thuringia. In 1843 the academy was dissolved by Duke Bernhard II. The castle served the Meiningen military as a domicile from 1846, before it was used as a prison camp for a short time from 1870. The conversion led to the loss of the garden. Eduard Weitsch founded a folk high school in the castle in 1920. From 1946 to 1991 it was the seat of the Meiningen Institute for Teacher Training , which was housed in several buildings in Drei 30acker and Meiningen. The two-storey stone building with a hipped roof never regained its function as a pleasure and hunting lodge .

Today the building is highlighted by corner blocks and pilaster strips . The main building is six window axes wide and four window axes deep and, with its 1650 m² floor space, has been used as a residential building with 16 residential units since 2002 after its renovation .

literature

  • Alfred Erck (Ed.): Meiningen. Lexicon on city history. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
  • Karl Thränhardt: Meiningen in the 19th century and today. A journey through time with the poet Ludwig Bechstein. Resch, Meiningen 2004, ISBN 3-9808543-5-3 .
  • Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure castles of the 17th and 18th centuries in Thuringia. Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , p. 295 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '30.5 "  N , 10 ° 23' 14.3"  E