House of Mirrors

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House of Mirrors, 2018
View from the west

The mirror house , also known as Spiegelhof , is a hunting lodge in the Gernrodes district in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the woods south of Gernrode in the Harz Mountains on the north side of the Bärweg leading from the Sternhaus to the Bremer Teich .

history

In 1778 the mirror house was built by Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel , from which the name of the building goes back. Other information cites Friedrich Albrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg as the builder , who named it after him in honor of Spiegel, who often went hunting with the prince. In the 18th century, the landlord of the Sternhaus, a little more than a kilometer to the east, was responsible for overseeing the property. At the beginning of the 19th century, there was a fenced meadow right next to the mirror house. The area, partly overgrown with trees, was used to carry out hunts . While the mirror house was sometimes referred to as an uninhabited hunting lodge, in 1843 it was run with one building and four residents.

Individual evidence

  1. Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode, Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 41
  2. ^ Friedrich Gottschalck , pocket book for travelers in the Harz , G. Th. Keil, Magdeburg 1806; Reprint, 3rd edition 2015, Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode, ISBN 978-3-936185-69-0 , page 403
  3. Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronik der Stadt Gernrode, Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV 2013, page 43
  4. ^ Friedrich Gottschalck, pocket book for travelers in the Harz , G. Th. Keil, Magdeburg 1806; Reprint, 3rd edition 2015, Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode, ISBN 978-3-936185-69-0 , page 403
  5. Latest news from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt, the Schwarzburg and Reuss countries , 1827, page 472
  6. ^ Johann F. Kratzsch, The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states, Part 1 , Zimmermann, 1843, page 677

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 5.2 ″  E