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A hunting lodge is a palace in a zoo or hunting area as forest, field or lake and was mainly used for the storage of rulers and courtiers at the hunting in the region.

Most here the hunting be adopted banquet was committed, sometimes it also served for parties and similar events. Often the term is set equal to the pleasure palace - especially hunting among the former aristocrats not only food assistance, but mainly leisure was level - but pleasure palace and hunting lodge differ both in function and in the architecture. Pleasure palaces are in their design program free while hunting lodges always have respect for the hunt: This can be done by antlers and other trophies from hunting paintings, but also by the deliberate show of wood or natural materials; Hunting locks can be equipped quite valuable in other respects. In contrast to pleasure palaces half timbered cabins were not uncommon, however, will have only a few elaborate stone buildings, which today determine the understanding of the hunting lodge.

Most hunting lodge includes stables and utility buildings for accommodating hunting stuff, coaches and entourage. While larger hunting lodges can form independent ensembles are smaller plants, the cabins are called, often built in the castle parks and gardens, but at least within reach of the residence of the respective princes.

Some well-known hunting lodges

  • Amalienborg Castle in Schloss Nymphenburg
  • Clemenswerth at Soegel
  • Hunting Schloss Engers
  • Falk pleasure in the park Augustus Palace in Brühl
  • Hunting lodge pheasant in Wiesbaden
  • Granitz Hunting Lodge
  • Hunting lodge Grunau at Neuburg an der Donau
  • Hubertus hunting lodge floor in the Schorfheide
  • Kranichstein hunting lodge near Darmstadt
  • Hunting lodge Letzlingen
  • Moritzburg Castle in Saxony
  • Hunting castle disk in Wiesbaden
  • Hunting lodge Quitzin in Western Pomerania
  • Hunting Lodge Springe
  • Hunting Lodge Star in Potsdam
  • Hunting lodge Waldsee in the Feldberg Lakes
  • Hunting lodge, White Water ( †) Muskauer lords, including Prince Hermann von Pueckler
  • Hunting Wolf Castle Garden in Langen, residence of the Landgrave of Hesse Family
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