Ehrenburg Palace
The Ehrenburg castle in Coburg was given in 1543 by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe with the architects Paul Beheim (Nuremberg), Nicholas Grohman and Caspar Vischer ( Kulmbach ) in order. Including a resolved after the Reformation Franciscan monastery, a new city palace which comprised three wings on the north, west and south side emerged. In the east it leaned against the walls. The three-storey main building with the ducal chambers, a staircase tower, Zwerchhäusern court arcades and was in the north, the show facade does not seem to have turned against the court but to the north. Before 1575 has been added on the east side of the courtyard, a chapel.
For the construction only paid craftsmen and were not, as was customary, obliged to forced labor. This feature should have been the reason for the visit of Emperor Charles V in 1547. Charles is said to have given the name Ehrenburg on this occasion the then newly -related investment.
From 1590 had converted the south wing by the Strasbourg master builder Michael Frey Duke Johann Casimir, then also the still existing entrance was changed. Before 1623 north of the oldest farmstead emerged from the period around 1543 two more ( functionally subordinate ) courts and the entire system has now been opened up from the south. 1623 built Giovanni Bonalino under John Casimir, the two-storey bow position of the arbor in the southern courtyard ( formerly with walk flat roof) and evaluated in this way the new entrance courtyard structurally on. On the southeast corner of this court, the richly carved horn room was 1631/32 built, which was transferred to the Veste Coburg 1809.
As of 1680, Duke Albrecht III. , Who used the Ehrenburg since 1680 as a residence, invest in the east of the nuclear installation on slope leveled terraces a new courtyard, headed over to the as architecturally interesting link the new, partly preserved Marstall.
A major fire destroyed in 1690 the northern part of the Renaissance system. This took Duke Albrecht III. as an opportunity to erect a new building in Baroque style to 1699. The three wings around a spacious, open to the north courtyard is divided into the main wing attached back to the older palace complex, the west wing of the castle church and state rooms and the used as guest quarters east wing.
In the 19th century the castle its present appearance by Duke Ernst I according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel ( 1810) in the style of English Gothic Revival. The Frenchman André -Marie Renié - Grety designed the living room and party room with the classical idiom. The overall impression of the Ehrenburg FULL Ernst I by the construction of a theater ( Coburg State Theatre ) compared with the redesigned Palace Square and the courtyard garden, an English landscape garden, between the ensembles Ehrenburg - State Theatre and the Veste Coburg. The courtyard garden is one of the major German parks.
The Free State of Coburg closed after its founding in 1919, Duke Carl Eduard a settlement agreement in the amount of 1.5 million marks over its possessions. With that, among other things, Schloss Ehrenburg become the property of the state. The furnishings was awarded the Coburg State Foundation. Since 1941 the castle is maintained by the Bavarian Administration of State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes.
The in recent decades from the ground up restored Ehrenburg Coburg is home to the National Library with a collection of over 400,000 volumes; a large part is built as a museum and can be visited on guided tours.
- Interior views of Ehrenburg
Monumental forms of classicism in the throne room
Audience Room with remarkably well-preserved wall carpet
Main staircase with late classical cassettes curvature
Others
A popular anecdote revolves around 1860 from England watercloset imported, probably the first flush toilet on the European continent. It was installed in the premises Ehrenburg in Queen Victoria and was allowed to be used by her.
Similarly, the first functioning elevator for Queen Victoria to have been installed in the Ehrenburg. Since the then Queen of Great Britain climbing the stairs was too cumbersome, they demanded unceremoniously a hand-operated elevator for themselves, which they got.