Württemberg Palace

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Württembergisches Palais, south facade
The renaissance garden of the palace

The Württembergisches Palais or Herzogspalais is a palace built in the classical style in the inner west of the western quarter of Regensburg between today's streets Am Prebrunntor and Hund reversing . The palace in the far north-west of the old town was built in 1804 by Princely Thurn and Taxischen Hofrat Georg Friedrich Ritter von Müller by the Fürstlich Thurn und Taxischen building director Joseph Sorg according to plans by Emanuel Herigoyen . Today's Herzogspark , in which the Renaissance garden is located, is also part of the palace complex. The East Bavarian Natural History Museum has been housed in the Palais since 1961 .

history

Prebrunn gate tower Prebrunnbastei in the Herzogspark

In 1804, the financial director of Thurn und Taxis , Georg Friedrich Ritter von Müller , acquired several pieces of land between today's streets Am Prebrunntor and Hund reversing as well as the adjacent kennel area and the Prebrunn bastion, which was part of the then still complete city ​​fortifications of Regensburg and the north-western outskirts from Regensburg marked. By purchasing two further small pieces of land, he had acquired a piece of land that corresponds in size to the grounds of today's Herzogspark. A park was created on the site according to Müller's specifications. To the south-east of the park, von Müller had today's palace built in 1804 at the site of tower XXXVII of the city wall, which was demolished. The building plans came from Emanuel Herigoyen , then a master builder under the Electorate Chancellor Karl Theodor von Dalberg . The building was completed in 1806. Müller lived in the palace for almost 40 years and died childless in 1843.

Württemberg-Palais
Former riding stable

After Müller's death, the palace was acquired by Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis as a residence for his sister Marie Sophie von Württemberg . She was divorced from her husband Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg in 1635 and has called herself Duchess Paul von Württemberg ever since . Her son Maximilian von Württemberg (1828-188), which was since the beginning of the 1870s, the owner of the Palais, married in 1876 Princess Hermine von Schaumburg-Lippe (1845-1930 / 32) after the death of her husband Duchess Maximilian von Württemberg called . The marriage had remained childless. The Duchess lived in the palace until her death in 1932 and was well known in the city because she often showed herself on horseback and liked to socialize with officers.

After the death of Duchess Maximilian von Württemberg in 1932, the city of Regensburg acquired the palace along with the surrounding park. In 1952 the newly designed park was opened to the public. In 1961 the city left the palace to the Regensburg Natural Science Association in order to set up a natural history museum in the palace for the association's extensive collection. The association and the city have been running the museum together since 1989. From 1986 to 1991, the foundations and buildings were comprehensively renovated from a structural point of view and received new windows and central heating and sanitary facilities.

Building description and function

Württembergisches Palais, south facade

The three-storey, strictly classical-style palace consists of three wings that are connected at obtuse angles. The facade of the south wing with seven window axes and the west wing with a front to the park, with nine window axes, are structured by rhythmic window arrangements , pilaster strips and cornices. The windows were shutters again during the most recent renovation. The east wing with wash house and woodshed was originally only one storey and was only extended in 1891 and 1912.

Inside the building, the double-leaf lining doors, ornamental parquet floors, the round staircase made of oak, and the stucco friezes from the Biedermeier period that were exposed during the renovation work are well worth seeing . From the 60 m² ballroom of the house you look to the west into the adjacent park.

In addition to geological , botanical and zoological exhibits from the Natural History Museum , the palace also houses numerous antiques and historical research apparatus. It also houses collections of old scientific prints, drawings and books.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The document does not speak of divorce, but of the death of the husband
  2. ↑ The west wing originally ran along the existing city moat

Web links

Commons : Württembergisches Palais  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 432 f .
  2. ↑ a b Jonas Doerfler: Am Prebrunntor 4 - Natural history in the garden palace . In: 40 years of urban development funding in Regensburg - a success story . City of Regensburg, Planning and Building Department, Office for Urban Development, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-935052-96-2 , p. 38 .
  3. ↑ Naturkundemuseum Ostbayern: History ( Memento from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 28, 2009

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 19.6 "  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 57.7"  E