Marienburg Castle (Ichtershausen)

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Facade of Marienburg Castle
Ceiling in the former castle

The Marienburg Castle , and New Castle called, is a baroque palace complex in the district of Ichtershausen the municipality office Wachsenburg in Thuringia Ilm-Kreis .

history

The buildings of Marienburg Castle can look back on 900 years of usage history. They were needed to found the monastery , then served the clergy and after the Reformation became the official and residential seat , i.e. the castle. In 1877, however, they were converted into a prison and operated as a juvenile prison for 200 young people until the summer of 2014 .

Now the three-  hectare facility is to be redesigned, integrating the listed building fabric, into an integrative and cross-generational residential and living project.

literature

  • Heiko Laß: Marienburg Castle - the residence of Duke Bernhard I of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen in Ichtershausen. In: Castles and Palaces . Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation. Volume 60, No. 4, 2019, ISSN  0007-6201 , pp. 228-235.

Web links

Commons : Marienburg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Development project “New Ichtershausen Monastery” on the website of the Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research , accessed on January 1, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 23.8 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 16 ″  E