Cour d'honneur

The main courtyard ( Cour d' honneur French ) is the three-sided enclosed by the corps de logis and the side wings reception court, which had been developed in the French palace of the Renaissance, especially for symmetrical baroque palaces is characteristic. The fourth courtyard is often limited by a grid or a wall with entrance gate in the central axis. The name was derived from the fact that access to the castle across the yard was usually only special dignitaries permitted.

Honor farms were realized as a representation element in the subsequent period in other secular buildings, such as the Berlin Reich Chancellery. In Dusseldorf wearing a exhibition complex of the 1920s, which is now used as a cultural forum, the name of the main courtyard. The new Federal Chancellery in Berlin has a courtyard for the reception of state guests.

Examples

The main courtyard of the Mannheim Palace

The courtyard of the castle Charlottenburg

The main courtyard of the New Castle in Grodno