Hardisleben Castle

The lock

The Hardisleben Castle was the predecessor of today standing hunting lodge in Hardisleben in district Sömmerda in Thuringia .

history

During the fire in 1679 that fell village , and the water tower and the Vorwerk the flames victims. Around 1700 Duke Johann Ernst III. von Sachsen-Weimar had the moated castle built into his wife's pleasure palace . After the Duchess' death in 1738, the summer residence was converted into a hunting lodge.

Only after 1945, except for the heavily damaged Princely House, were all other buildings demolished on the orders of the land reform . After the renovation and the demolition of the other buildings, the Princely House presents itself again in a ring of wall and moat. The main entrance can be reached via a bridge.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Hardisleben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The castle on www.buttstaedt.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure palaces of the 17th and 18th centuries in Thuringia. Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8656-809-25 , pp. 320 and 321.

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 13.3 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 33.2"  E