Jägersburg Castle (Homburg)

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Jägersburg Castle from the garden side, Philipp Adolf Leclerc (1755–1826), gouache on paper, 1780, 49 × 67 cm, Karlsberger Hof Foundation, Homburg-Sanddorf
Jägersburg Castle from the access side, Philipp Adolf Leclerc (1755–1826), pen drawing with watercolors, around 1780 or after 1793 ?, 46 × 66 cm, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer
Castle Grand Trianon in the castle garden of Versailles as an architectural inspiration

The Hunters Castle is a abgegangenes hunting lodge in Jägersburg , a district of Homburg in Saarland . It is not to be confused with the still preserved Gustavsburg .

history

Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken left the palace not far from the old Hattweiler Castle (later Gustavsburg ), presumably by the Parisian court architect Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne (1711–1778) based on the Versailles model Build the Grand Trianon Palace . Correspondence expressing Christian's friendly contacts with the Versailles court and Madame de Pompadour contain information about the building, which was planned around 1752. Pierre Patte, who describes himself as "Architecte de SAS Mgr. Le Prince Palatin, Duc règnant de Deux-Ponts", states in his catalog raisonné "un chateau à Jeresbourg", which is reminiscent of the Grand Trianon Palace in individual forms and architectural cubature Approaching Versailles Park. The Zweibrücken garden architect Johann Ludwig Petri created an extensive park that included the palace. It was the favorite residence of Duke Christian IV. The plan of his successor, Duke Karl II. August , to have the palace demolished in 1782 and rebuilt on the Karlsberg , was never realized for financial reasons; however, parts of the castle and the interior fittings were used on the Carlsberg. The castle was set on fire by revolutionary troops during the French Revolution in 1793 and demolished at the beginning of the 19th century.

The castle was one of the most important buildings of the early early classicism in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . It consisted of a flat-roofed two-storey main building with 15 axes with central and side projections. On the side there were also flat-roofed, single-storey right-angled wings, which, with their pilasters and blended columns and balustrades, were strongly reminiscent of the Grand Trianon .

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Ruin of Jägersburg Castle from the garden side (1802, approx. 42 × 10 cm.)
By Mr. Lucas / Joshua Bryant / Jacques-François II (James) Mérigot from Colonel Thomas Thornton: A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts Of France In The Year 1802. 1806.

literature

  • Philippe Cachau: Two French architects in the service of Christian IV, Duke of Zweibrücken: Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne and Pierre Patte. In: Saarpfalz , 2018/3, pp. 37–51.
  • Philippe Cachau: Le château de Christian IV, duc des Deux-Ponts, à Jägersburg. Un château français en Allemagne (1752-1756). In: Francia , No. 39, Institut Historique Allemand, Paris, 2012, pp. 135–165.
  • Charlotte Glück-Christmann (Ed.): The cradle of kings, 600 years of the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken , Zweibrücken 2010.
  • Wolfgang Medding: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate and on the Saar , Frankfurt am Main 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Martin: Francophile politics under the line Birkenfeld: Christian III. and Christian IV., in: in: The cradle of the kings, 600 years of the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, ed. by Charlotte Glück-Christmann with the assistance of Thomas Wiercinski and Bernhard Becker, Zweibrücken 2010, pp. 186–190, here p. 190.

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 52.8 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 16 ″  E