Pillnitz Castle Museum

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New Palace of Pillnitz Castle , seat of the Castle Museum

The Pillnitz Castle Museum is a museum of state palaces, castles and gardens on the history of Pillnitz Castle in the Saxon state capital Dresden .

Location

The museum is housed in the Pillnitz Castle in the southeast of Dresden. It is located in the New Palais and its outbuildings in the southeastern part of the palace in the August-Böckstiegel-Straße area. The museum presents the domed hall, the Catholic palace chapel and the former royal court kitchen. Other Dresden museums in the vicinity are the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts, also housed in Pillnitz Castle, of the State Art Collections, and the municipal Carl Maria von Weber Museum in Hosterwitz . The Richard Wagner Museum is located in the neighboring Graupa district of Pirna .

Collection and exhibition

The Pillnitz Castle Museum illustrates the history of Pillnitz Castle and Park as well as court life. The permanent exhibition “From Play Palace to Summer Residence” includes a Wettiner ancestral gallery with graphics and busts of Saxon rulers as well as everyday objects from the Saxon court, a video installation on the history of palace construction in Pillnitz and the “Hortus Pillnitziensis”, an exhibition about Friedrich Augustus's passion for botanical collecting Righteous . The museum is open from April to October every year. There is a winter break in the five remaining months.

Late classicist domed hall

The domed hall in Pillnitz Castle is the only classicist domed structure in Dresden. It is located in the New Palais and was inaugurated in 1823 as a large festival and dining room. Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein created ceiling paintings for the domed hall with allegories and representatives of the arts.

Catholic palace chapel

Pillnitz Palace Chapel

The single-nave Catholic chapel in the north-eastern side wing of the New Palace was built between 1823 and 1829. Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein designed this part of the building richly with religious frescoes. Together with students from the Dresden Art Academy, he painted the chapel with a cycle of Mary.

Royal court kitchen

The former royal court kitchen in the south-eastern side wing of the New Palace was built in 1822/23. After the Wettins abdicated in 1918, it was used for other purposes. In the further course of the 20th century, both the original room structure and the old inventory were destroyed or lost. From 2000 to 2003, the court kitchen was therefore reconstructed based on historical models. The furniture and parts of the cooking machines are replicas of the original, and the items of equipment, including old cookware and cutlery, have been purchased from various sources. Most of the kitchen copper on display, which comes from the Saxon court, was bought by the Free State in 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. schlosspillnitz.de: Castle Museum ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 1.2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schlosspillnitz.de
  2. Pillnitz Castle Museum opens after the winter break ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release, March 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.t-online.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 30 ″  N , 13 ° 52 ′ 16 ″  E