Tempelherrenhaus (Weimar)

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Ruin of the temple mansion (2007), destroyed in 1945

The Tempelherrenhaus was a venue in Weimar that emerged from an orangery in the 18th century . After bombing during the air raids on Weimar on February 9 and March 31, 1945, it is now only a ruin .

history

In the park on the Ilm in Weimar in 1786/1787 in the course of the redesign of the park, whereby the former Welsche Garten was included in the park, an old greenhouse and the old orange house were converted into a romantic parlor in the park for the ducal court. The renovation was based on a design by Johann Friedrich Rudolf Steiner . It is not far from the Roman House .

Social events, small receptions, exhibitions and concerts were held here. The four wooden, life-size sculptures by the court sculptor Martin Gottlieb Klauer , which adorned the upper corners of the roof of the salon from 1788, represented temples , from which the name is derived. In fact, a few years earlier, in 1782 to be precise, the Anna Amalia zu den Drei Rosen Lodge, which referred to this lodge, had ceased its work and did not resume work until 1808. In 1818 the wooden figures were replaced by sandstone figures by Johann Peter Kaufmann . One of Klauer's wooden temple lords is still preserved and is in the holdings of the Goethe National Museum (Weimar) with the inv. KPl / 00599. The term Tempelherrenhaus had become established around 1820 . After the conversion into a neo-Gothic temple by the architect Carl Friedrich Christian Steiner between 1811 and 1823 and the addition of a tower in 1816, it served as a salon for the ducal family. The extension of the tower came about on the advice of Goethe. With these modifications, the Tempelherrenhaus became the youngest architectural element of the Ilm Park in classical times. It was later used as a concert hall by Ferruccio Busoni and Franz Liszt, among others, and as a studio for the Bauhaus . Johannes Itten was one of the Bauhaus masters who used it as a studio . There are lavish Bauhaus festivals guaranteed. The coat of arms of Ludwig von Gleichen can also be found on the artificial ruin . Apparently the temple mansion is often confused with the artificial ruin. But the temple mansion has nothing to do with that. This condition had a different, later cause.

In February and March 1945, at the end of the Second World War , the house fell victim to air raids on Weimar . All that remained was the tower from 1816 based on a design that was presumably made by Goethe himself. Of the figures that Kaufmann created, only a single torso remained in the same place. The other three have been in the basement of the Roman House since April 2012 in the area that shows the history of the Ilmpark. A reconstruction after the war did not take place. Only the tower ruins were restored in 1998. However, there are plans for rebuilding.

Old ivy on the temple mansion

It is worth mentioning a very old ivy next to the pointed arch window and a pillar on the upper platform of which the above-mentioned torso stands on the tower . There was also a figure on the opposite pillar.

reception

The musician Moby was apparently so impressed by the sight that he had provided the cover of the single The right thing with his own recording of the temple mansion. That was also mentioned in the media. The motif was used as a postcard even before it was destroyed in World War II.

literature

  • Wolfgang Huschke : The temple mansion in Weimar Park. In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Ancient Art. NF 34 (1940), pp. 278-288. Digitized: [1]
  • Susanne Müller-Wolff: A landscape garden in the Ilmpark: The history of the ducal garden in Weimar. Cologne-Weimar-Wien 2007, p. 162 ff. ISBN 978-3-412-20057-2

Web links

Commons : Tempelherrenhaus, Weimar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Huschke , according to a list of the auctioning of certain plants from the Welschen Garten from 1750 on u. a. "225 orange and 81 laurel trees of various kinds, 17 pomegranate and 6 fig trees, 62 yellow and 3 white jasmine, 9 Spanish gorse, 18 gold-plated and silver-plated salbai and 10 aloe." Wolfgang Huschke: The history of the park of Weimar. Weimar 1951, p. 44.
  2. ↑ Review of orangeries - of princely wealth and horticultural art on the homepage of the working group orangeries in Germany eV ( Memento from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Huschke: The history of the park of Weimar. Weimar 1951, p. 71.
  4. ^ Susanne Müller-Wolff: A landscape garden in the Ilmpark: The history of the ducal garden in Weimar . Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-412-20057-2 Fig. 44
  5. ^ Rolf Haage: Weimar. A guide through the classic city, p. 60.
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) p. 9
  7. ↑ Tempelherrenhaus - remains of a neo-Gothic temple by Andreas Werner
  8. ↑ Pictures of Destruction. Weimar 1945. Photos by Günther Beyer . Catalog for the exhibition at the Stadtmuseum Weimar, 2015. p. 46
  9. ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/kultur/detail/-/specific/Das-Tempelherrenhaus-in-Weimar-soll-wieder-aufgebaut-haben-2119954987
  10. ↑ Thorsten Büker: Weimarer Tempelherrenhaus adorns new Moby double single. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung, November 10, 2011
  11. ↑ http://static0.akpool.de/images/cards/5/54266.jpg http://static2.akpool.de/images/cards/25/256204.jpg http://images.zeno.org/Ansichtskarten /I/big/AK09579a.jpg

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 33 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 56 ″  E