Palace Square (Coburg)
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| place | Coburg |
| District | Core city |
| Created | 1825 |
| Confluent streets | Rückertstrasse, Theaterplatz, Wettiner Anlage |
| Buildings | Ehrenburg Palace , Coburg State Theater , Edinburgh Palace , arcades , riding arena , stables |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Space design | Monument to Duke Ernst I ( Ludwig Schwanthaler , 1849),
Weather pillar (Heinrich Scheler, 1882), memorial stone for Melchior Franck |
The Coburg Palace Square is one of the most remarkable square designs in Bavaria . The spacious square is designed as a forecourt to Ehrenburg Palace and is located in the center of the former royal seat of Coburg .
The palace square was laid out under Duke Ernst I from 1825 with the demolition of the eastern houses of Grafengasse and the subsequent demolition of the old economic and auxiliary buildings of the palace, which were in front of it to the north, in 1835. It was built in its current design as a representative square until 1849 in the historical and classicist style with the participation of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Peter Joseph Lenné .
layout
Ehrenburg Palace and its courtyard are located on the south side of Schlossplatz. From 1816, the facades of the northern part of the castle on Schlossplatz were redesigned in a neo-Gothic style based on designs by Schinkel . Next to the castle, separated by the Wettiner complex, is the former stables on the east side . The elongated building, erected around 1685, was rebuilt in 1885 in neo-Renaissance forms .
Diagonally opposite the palace, the palace square is bordered on the north side of the square by the Coburg State Theater , which was built from 1837 to 1840 according to plans by the ducal building inspector Carl Balthasar Harres , a student of Schinkel and the building councilor Vincenz Fischer-Birnbaum. To the east of the theater is the former Palais Edinburgh , today the seat of the Coburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry . The building, in the core of 1846, was modernized in 1865 by the master builder Georg Konrad Rothbart in the neo-renaissance style.
Grafengasse, whose town houses are covered by trees, is located on the western side of Schlossplatz. In this green area there is a memorial stone for Melchior Franck and a neo-Gothic weather pillar from 1882 by Heinrich Scheler, which was extensively renovated in 2008.
To the east, the square is limited by the elongated arcades , which provide access to the higher courtyard garden via stairs . The arcades were built in 1843 according to plans by Hermann Nicolai . A five-axis, protruding structure is integrated into the retaining wall construction , in which the castle guard was housed from 1845 to 1918 and today houses the memorial of the city of Coburg. On the southern side, the arcades are closed by the former riding hall from 1852, at the northern end they merge into the dark avenue that follows the moat that was filled in in 1803.
In the axis of the main courtyard of the palace stands the monument to Duke Ernst I, facing the courtyard garden. A flower garden roundabout , the axes of which are rotated by 45 ° compared to the axes of the castle, surrounds the monument. In 1847 his son Ernst II commissioned the statue from the sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler in Munich. The pedestal was designed by the Coburg court architect Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Streib . The solemn unveiling of the statue, cast from two melted French cannons, took place on August 17, 1849.
Uses
Until the beginning of the First World War , the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 the Schlossplatz for its parades. A military band played on Sunday afternoons. In the 1920s, the Schlossplatz was often a meeting place for demonstrators , like on Coburg Bloody Saturday .
Today, cars can be parked on Schlossplatz in the evenings during performances in the State Theater. It is also used as an event space, for example at open-air concerts. The first plans for a Schlossplatz underground car park were made in 1977, and in 1988 the highest building authority in Munich did not approve it for cost and monument protection reasons.
State Theater and Palace Edinburgh
Arcades
Ehrenburg Castle
Roundabout and monument to Duke Ernst I.
Weather pillar
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christian Boseckert: "... so that Coburg is beautiful"? The Nazi building policy in the Vestestadt (1933–1945) . Volume 26 of the publication series of the historical society Coburg eV, Coburg 2014, pp. 36–37
- ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . New Press Publishing House, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 31.6 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 3.3 ″ E