Altenburg tea house and orangery
The tea house and the orangery are the names of a baroque-style building complex in the park of Altenburg Castle in East Thuringia . It is registered as a cultural monument.
history
The tea house was built together with the neighboring orangery between 1706 and 1712 under Duke Friedrich II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg .
An older pleasure house, several small greenhouses and behind them the so-called ball game house had already stood on the site. In the course of the baroque redesign of the park, the new pleasure house, located at the highest point, was to be the crowning glory of the work. The architect was the Zeitz master builder Johann Heinrich Gengenbach , who had also been involved in renovations and new buildings at Altenburg Castle since 1703.
After the entire palace gardens were redesigned in the style of an English landscape garden at the beginning of the 19th century, the buildings and facilities were probably also used for non-court purposes. In 1841 and 1842, the Altenburg Pomological Society organized a first and second highly regarded georgine (dahlia) exhibition with awards.
After the First World War, the Altenburg coffee house Volkstädt opened a café in the ballroom of the tea house. The famous Altenburg painter Ernst Müller-Gräfe had his studio on the mezzanine floor of the central pavilion of the orangery until his death in 1954.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the tea house became a family meeting place with live music and concerts. The area east of the building was used as a beer garden. The orangery became the “People's Solidarity Club”.
use
The building complex had been empty since the 1990s. In December 2004, the " Teehaus Altenburg Förderverein eV " was founded by a number of committed citizens to save the tea house complex . After several years of renovation, the tea house was reopened in September 2012 together with the neighboring orangery. The construction costs amounted to € 3.6 million. Since then, the teahouse has been used again for events, and the orangery houses a seasonal café.
swell
- Uta Künzl: Archival facts on selected buildings in the Altenburg palace garden, in: Altenburgica, 2nd year, issue 2, Altenburg 1993.
- Karl Heinz Gehlauf: Kulturhistorisches Portrait Altenburgs , Vol. 2, Steffen Sell Heimatverlag, Altenburg 1993.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 18.6 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 32.6 ″ E