Tiefurt House

Tiefurt Castle is a small country castle on the Ilm in the district Tiefurt the city of Weimar, about four kilometers east of the city center. The palace was the summer residence of the Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach. Together with the Castle Park Tiefurt it belongs since 1998 as part of the ensemble " Classical Weimar " a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

History

Castle

The castle was originally the home of a tenant ducal chamber property. The building, built in the late 16th century and rebuilt and enlarged in 1765, consists of a main building, the upper floor has seven rooms, and a smaller outbuildings. Both are connected by a covered walkway.

1776, Duke Carl August taught younger brother Constantine under the guidance of his tutor Karl Ludwig von Knebel in the castle his own royal household a. Four years later, during a prolonged absence of the prince, his mother Anna Amalia chose the castle as a summer residence. She was referring to the upper floor with two servants; in addition to building their maid Luise of Göchhausen was housed. The Room of Göchhausen has the following special feature: Since she was krummwüchsig, they could see only a little distorted normal aligned images. The pictures in her room have therefore been painted and framed accordingly so that the views were considerate to their condition. On two statues is here to refer separately. For one, there is a cast of the " Frierende " by Houdon from the Louvre in 1793 and on the other the Melpomene in the fireplace room. Tiefurt became the meeting place of the so-called Weimar Court of Muses. But besides that, there were numerous guests here as the Humboldt brothers and the painter Charles Gore.

After the death of the Duchess in 1807, the building was neglected, but led a Grand Duke Carl Friedrich, the son of Carl August, Goethe's still alive renovation. For the maintenance of the park known landscape gardener Eduard Petzold was appointed. Also noteworthy is the fact that Goethe's Urfaust was found and written in a secretary of the maid of honor Anna Amalia Luise of Göchhausen. While the original manuscript of Goethe was destroyed by the poet himself, the Göchhausensche copy was preserved and finally got into print. Under Clemens Wenceslaus Coudray was 1821-1828 the reconstruction of the castle and received its present appearance. There are two drawings from Holder 's Tiefurt castle. Another ink drawing of it survives in an etching by Carl Hummel 1840.

A look into the kitchen reveals, besides the accessories, including wooden and tin, imitation roasts and dishes in paper mache.

In 1907, the castle was adapted into a museum and open to visitors. A comprehensive renovation in the taste of the time around 1800 took place from 1978 to 1981. The sequence of spaces from the time Anna Amalia was restored upstairs.

Castle Park

On the adjacent meadow area with a size of about 21 acres, surrounded by a Ilmschleife, one began with the installation of a landscape park in the English style, which was then available to the public already. The park covers both sides of the Ilm. Two river überqurende bridges created the connection: the sheep Bridge and the Yellow Bridge, leading to the tea house. The highest point of the castle park is the yellowing grotto. The upper path on the outer side of the Ilm leads from Virgil stone to a stone with a Goethe- verse. The castle was built for about 25 years, the favorite residence of Anna Amalia and a center of Weimar poetry circle. The Duchess had the portraits of Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Gottfried Herder, and set up course of Goethe in the park. These were made of wood. Only a stone portrait of Wieland is still in the park in the Wieland - corner, which comes from Johann Gottfried Schadow (1802 ). There is also the Herder Memorial Stone. The center of the park is the temple of the Muses with the elaborate borders, with whom he is surrounded. Among the distinctive architectures Park is one addition to the aforementioned tea house located in close proximity to the Mozart monument Tiefurt.

The park served the amateur theater at Anna Amalia as a backdrop. The on July 22, 1782 Sealed from Goethe's Singspiel The fisherman was premiered here. The piece was based on Goethe entirely in relation to forest and water nature of the place and was primarily focused on lighting effects. The main role had this Corona Schröter. The stage technique for this purpose made ​​Johann Martin Mieding. The highly esteemed by him Corona Schröter honor was Goethe in Tiefurt a monument set in the form of the stone image of Cupid as Nachtigallenfütterer. This created 1796 Martin Gottlieb Klauer. In addition, grave times are for the brother of Anna Amalia Prince Leopold of Brunswick, (Oder) was in 1785 perished in fighting a flood disaster in Frankfurt and for her son Constantine, who fell ill in Pirmasens in 1793 and died in Wiebelskirchen as a Prussian major general.

Far from the castle is a sundial which is a work of the court sculptor Martin Gottlieb Klauer from 1798.

The park itself is connected by the Ilm and the leading past her way with the investment of Kromsdorf Castle and the Park an der Ilm.

Although located outside, yet the effect of the look of the village church of Tiefurt in the park design was included, at least since Eduard Petzold. This is only a little away from the castle. After all, she was an effect of Johann Sebastian Bach. In the years 1846-1850 the transformation of the castle park Tiefurt by Petzold after plans of his teacher Hermann Fürst von Pueckler was.

• Castle Tiefurt

Rear View in the non- greened state

Grassed portal to the courtyard

• Castle Park Tiefurt

Today's view of the erected in 1803 Muse Polyhymnia temple with a sculpture in the center as well as expensive jewelry planting around the park architecture around.

On the " Yellow Bridge " over the Ilm with a view towards the teahouse of the 21 -hectare castle park Tiefurt.

Mozart monument Tiefurt as copper engraving in the Journal of the Luxury and Fashion in 1799

Wieland bust of Schadow in the castle park to Tiefurt

The tea house in the castle park

Herder Memorial in Castle Park

Temple of the Muses, Detail