Lustschloss

As a pleasure palace (French Maison de plaisance what both " cottage", as well as freely translated " pleasure house " - from plaisir: "Lust ", " joy ", " pleasure " - means ) is defined as a small castle which the private pleasure its owner was away and was inhabited by court ceremonial and state duties.

Background

With the beginning of the Renaissance awoke in the nobility of the desire for representative locks and slowly the old castles were abandoned or transformed into homely residences. Over the years, many aristocratic estates grew into large locks; simultaneously changed the court ceremonial. The princes were now increasingly the focus of an elaborate royal household, which reached its zenith in absolutism. The nobility was surrounded by artists, courtiers, ambassadors, ministers and petitioners often swollen and the residences of people formally over.

The desire for more intimacy now led to the construction of summer houses, which often only certain groups of people had access. Here, their owners could retire with their family or their mistresses, here you could devote the leisure or pleasure. Pleasure palaces were primarily places of the festivals of dance and music, often in literature and painting. Thus they formed the opposition to the actual residence, which often lay nearby, the affairs of state was used and in which the label had to be safeguarded.

Highlights of this form of castle architecture were the Baroque and Rococo: The pleasure palaces, often hidden away in the magnificent palace garden, usually recorded by a particularly rich and valuable equipment, at the same time the rooms and salons were intimate and convenient. In many buildings important artists of the region have worked. Famous examples are the Great and Little Trianon in the park of the Palace of Versailles, the castle Marly- le- Roi or Amalienburgstrasse in the park of Schloss Nymphenburg.

The formulation of the " pleasure palace " - even the " hunting lodge " - and the " castle " itself can be used fluently and often mean the same thing. Often the purpose of a pleasure palace also changed - it was expanded and enlarged over the years and thus took over later public, representative tasks. An example of this is the Sanssouci Palace, which was originally built in the vicinity of the Potsdam City Palace as a summer house and over the years became the main residence of Frederick the Great.

Other famous German pleasure palaces are Benrath in Dusseldorf, Favorite Castle in Ludwigsburg and Favorite Castle in Mainz.

• Castle ( Architecture )
• Baroque
• Lustschloss