Drottningholm Palace

Drottningholm Palace was originally a royal summer palace on the island Lovön in Mälaren in the community Ekerö and since 1982 the residence of the Swedish royal family. Drottningholm Palace was recorded as the first Swedish cultural monument in the list of World Heritage by UNESCO, due to two specific buildings, the Chinese small castle ( Kina slott ) and the Drottningholmtheaters ( Drottningholms Slottsteater ).

History

Johann III. of Sweden was in 1580 a castle for his wife Catherine Jagiellonica ( Catherine of Poland), the former Swedish queen, build. He called it "Queen island " - " Drottningholm ". 1661 acquired the Swedish King Karl X Gustav, Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp widow, the castle, which burnt down on the ground already on December 30, 1661.

She had a new palace built by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. built in the Baroque style. His son Nicodemus Tessin the Younger took over the site management after his father's death shortly before completion of construction in 1681 and completed the castle, together with the Castle Church ( has a Cahman organ from 1730) and put this to a Baroque garden in the French style. The park was later expanded to the west. From 1777 was Gustav III. Creating an English landscape garden to the north, the landscape architect Fredrik Magnus Piper was.

In the 1760s, Queen Lovisa Ulrika left, the wife of King Adolf Frederick, build a number of new buildings by architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, including the Chinese palace and the Drottningholm Palace Theatre include original stage machinery.

The Chinese palace ( Kina slott ) is built in the French rococo style, but has due to the numerous Chinese and Oriental elements with an exotic touch.

The Palace Theatre

The Palace Theatre is one of the best preserved baroque theater in Europe. It was built as a successor building for a burnt in 1762 by the theater architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz for the Swedish Queen Luise Ulrike of Prussia and inaugurated in 1766. The climax experienced it under Gustav III. , Who himself wrote plays and happy as an actor. In his time the theater with the so-called Déjeunersalongen ( breakfast room ) was extended westward towards.

After an attempted assassination of Gustav III. during a masked ball in the Stockholm Opera, the consequences of which he died shortly thereafter, the theater fell into disrepair and was only rediscovered in the early 20th century and renovated in 1922. The stage technique is still original. The theater has a unique collection of 30 stage sets. The stage is now used again for performances, such as 2011 for a faithful representation of Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart directed by Sigrid T'Hooft. The theater is station of the Nordic route of Europe Historic street theater.

Pictures

Main facade to the east

Park, baroque garden

Park, Englischer Garten

The Palace Theatre

The Castle Church

The Chinese Palace ( Kina Slott )

The former guard - tent

The Royal Guard