Falkenegg Castle
Falkenegg Castle is a castle with a park in the Coburg district of Neuses . It is one of the romantic buildings of historicism at the beginning of the 19th century and has a fundamentally neo-Gothic design. Falkenegg Castle is located on the southwestern edge of Neuses in a mountain location. The castle's small mountain park with some remarkable monuments stretches between Rodacher Strasse and Kantstrasse .
Original building
Count von Mendorff, a brother-in-law of Duke Ernst I , had the oldest part of the palace with its square floor plan and its square tower in front of it built in the neo-Gothic style in the first half of the 19th century. It served him and his wife Princess Sophie as a representative apartment.
Extensions
In 1891 the castle became the property of Baron von Ledersteger-Falkenegg, who had it expanded to its present size based on the building plans drawn up by master carpenter Eduard Grams. The building evoking the romanticism of the castles now also had motifs from the Italian and English Renaissance and a neo-Romanesque detail.
The lords of the castle changed at short intervals, and with them the external and internal appearance of the building. In 1905 GA Melchers took over the castle. He let one based on the English Decorated Style held porch Add metal. The originally neo-Gothic portal was converted into a neo-Romanesque one with pointed arches in 1913 . The client was the owner at the time, Richard Berger, who was replaced by Rittmeister Oskar Jäger in 1920. Jäger, who owned a jersey shirt factory in Barmen , had the spacious interior of the palace changed into three separate apartments. A gardener's apartment, several garages, a machine house and an electric pumping station in the old German half-timbered style were also added to the ensemble .
Mountain park
Falkenegg Castle has a small park that rises from Neuses to the castle. A striking , seven-meter-high sandstone obelisk at the entrance to the park is adorned with ornaments and quotations . It is the memorial for the poet and writer Moritz August von Thümmel , who was a minister under Hereditary Prince Ernst Friedrich and who died in Coburg in 1817.
Behind the obelisk is a stump of a column surrounded by snakes. Originally there was a stone urn on it . It is the tomb of Countess Adrienne Elisabeth von Corneillan, who died in 1822, a relative of Thümmel. Under the column there is a small crypt that is now filled in .
The expressive small memorial for Prince Christian Franz († 1797), the four years older brother of Friedrich Josias, lies in a small cut in the terrain to the left of the Thümmel obelisk . Sunk in grief, the genius of death rests on a stump of a column and extinguishes the torch of life. A putto is crouching on the base of the column .
Todays use
Since 1941 at the latest, Falkenegg Castle and the Bergpark have been owned by the City of Coburg, which operated a kindergarten there from 1949 . Today the castle is home to a kindergarten for the Evangelical Lutheran parish.
literature
- Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown , printing and publishing house Neue Presse, Coburg, 1974, pages 18-19
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 24 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 45 ″ E