Poppelsdorf Palace
The Poppelsdorf Palace is a baroque palace in the Bonn district Poppelsdorf.
Palace
Poppelsdorf Castle is the succession to a destroyed in the Sewer War 1583 Gothic water castle and was designed and built from 1715 ( foundation stone was laid August 21 ) and 1740. The architect was the Frenchman Robert de Cotte. Builders were the Cologne Elector Joseph Clemens and his nephew and successor Clemens August, who let it expand, designed by Balthasar Neumann. According to its developers, it was also called Castle Clemensruhe.
Surroundings of the castle
Toward the Rhine is a connection and line of sight to the Electoral Palace, today the main building of the University of Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Allee created. Originally a canal should run there, which was not implemented due to lack of water. In an extension of the visual axis in the opposite direction of the Baroque church located on Cross Mountain. Poppelsdorf castle stands together with the Poppelsdorfer Avenue, the Botanical Gardens and a guard house as a historic listed building.
The castle in the Prussian era
Under the rule of Prussia in 1818 were the castle and the adjacent park to the property of the University. That same year the park to the Botanical Garden Bonn has been redesigned with the eleven greenhouses approximately 8,000 different plants shows today to 6.5 hectares. 1863 was the famous chemist AW Hofmann called to Bonn and allowed for Poppelsdorf Palace according to his plans to rebuild a chemical institute. Ultimately rejected Hofmann from the chair at the University of Bonn and instead took in 1864 the call to the immense converted Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin.
The castle was badly damaged in 1944 by a land mine and rebuilt in a very simplified form, from 1955 again.
Current usage
Today, several scientific institutions such as parts of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, the Mineralogical Museum, the Institute of Zoology and Institute of Molecular Physiology and Developmental Biology at the castle. Also currently still housed are part of LIMES ( Life and Medical Sciences Bonn), which, however, are moving to their own building completion. In the courtyard of the Castle Poppelsdorf concerts take place in the summer season instead allsamstäglich that are listed by the Bonn Classical Philharmonic under the direction of Heribert Beissel.
More palace buildings Clemens August I.
The palace of the Elector Clemens August I. consummating down beside Poppelsdorf Castle (1715-1740), which no longer exists Castle Duke joy as a hunting lodge in the modern district of Bonn Röttgen (1753-1755), the palaces of Augustus and Falkenlust in Brühl (1723-1746 build ) as a hunting and summer palaces, the Clemenswerth Castle in Emsland Soegel (1737-1747) and only partially realized castle love castle in Goslar ( 1754-1760 ). In addition, he was in the period 1751-1757 to expand through the Bonner architect Michel Leveilly, designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder as the palace to the Koblenz Gate.