Schönbornslust Palace

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The Schönborn pleasure palace was a castle in Kesselheim , a modern suburb of Koblenz . The hunting lodge , completed in 1752, was destroyed in armed conflicts during the conquest of Koblenz in 1794 by the French revolutionary army .

history

Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn had Schönbornslust Palace built as a hunting lodge between 1748 and 1752 according to plans by Balthasar Neumann and under the supervision of Johannes Seiz . The summer residence of the elector, completed in baroque form, who hunted rabbits, chickens and pheasants in the midst of fields, woods and swamps, was Neumann's last palace construction. The facility was a one-wing building with 21 axes and a pheasantry .

After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony offered emigrants and the fugitive members of the French court related to him (Clemens Wenzeslaus was the uncle of the French King Louis XVI ) a refuge here. This made Koblenz a center of the French royalists. After the emigrants had left the palace, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II stayed here for a few days in July 1792 . Afterwards it was converted into a hospital for Austrian soldiers.

During the First Coalition War , the French Revolutionary Army approached the city of Koblenz from the north in October 1794, as the way to the Rhine was clear after the victory in the Battle of Fleurus . Schönbornslust Palace was in the middle of the fighting and was destroyed in the process. After the looting, the castle ruins and the property were sold and completely demolished and leveled in 1806. Two utility buildings near the former Maria Trost monastery have been preserved . Today there is a dense industrial area between the Koblenz districts of Kesselheim and Wallersheim .

literature

  • Hartmut G. Urban: Schönbornslust Castle - Comments on a former summer palace near Koblenz . In: Burgen und Schlösser 41 (2000), pp. 58–65.
  • Catharina Raible: Balthasar Neumann's Schönbornslust Palace near Koblenz. Reconstruction and analysis based on the building findings and the written and visual sources . In: Koblenz Contributions to History and Culture NF 15/16 (2008), pp. 7–42.
  • Maria consolation. Company location with history. Publisher: Björnsen Beratende Ingenieure GmbH, Koblenz. Research, editing, image processing and design: Sabine Treptow. Koblenz: Björnsen Consulting Engineers 2011.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 17.5 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 41"  E