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Hermitage Museum (Bayreuth)
The State Hermitage Museum is a museum in Bayreuth Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ..., Germany. The museum was created from a historical park with fountains, constructed in 1715. Notable buildings include the Old Palace, a New Castle with sun temple, and other smaller buildings. Bayreuth Eremitage Das neue Schloss 1753 Eingangsseite - Foto Wolfgang Pehlemann DSCN7041.jpg, The ''New Castle'' built in 1753 (called sun temple) with entrance, view from the south Bayreuth Eremitage Das alte Schloss 1719-22 Eingangsseite exterior - Foto Wolfgang Pehlemann DSCN7083.jpg, The ''Old Palace'' (1719-22), exterior, from the entrance side Bayreuth Eremitage Das alte Schloss 1719-22 aus Südost-Perspektive - Foto Wolfgang Pehlemann DSCN7069.jpg, The ''Old Palace'' in perspectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of Upper Franconia and has a population of 72,148 (2015). It hosts the annual Bayreuth Festival, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. History Middle Ages and Early Modern Period The town is believed to have been founded by the counts of Andechs probably around the mid-12th century,Mayer, Bernd and Rückel, Gert (2009). ''Bayreuth – Tours on Foot'', Heinrichs-Verlag, Bamberg, p.5, . but was first mentioned in 1194 as ''Baierrute'' in a document by Bishop Otto II of Bamberg. The syllable ''-rute'' may mean ''Rodung'' or "clearing", whilst ''Baier-'' indicates immigrants from the Bavarian region. Already documented earlier, were villages later merged into Bayreuth: Seulbitz (in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Palace, Eremitage
The old palace (german: das alte Schloß) is one of the two castles within the historic Hermitage Park to the east of the St. Johannis district of the German city of Bayreuth. The building should be confused with the Old Palace in the city center. History Early history The forest area, which had previously been church property as a parish forest, came into the possession of the margraves of Bayreuth through purchase in 1616 . From 1664, Margrave Christian Ernst originally had a hunting park here, and later had a "house of grottoes and fountains" laid out. The old castle was built from 1715 on the order of Margrave Georg Wilhelm as a summer house. The architect was probably the agricultural inspector Johann David Räntz the Elder, a student of Paul Decker. Supervising construction fell to Johann Heinrich Endrich, who later built his own dwelling on the edge of the park (later known as Monplaisir). The castle was built as a four-wing complex, which was entered through a small g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
