The Princes' House (german: Prinzenhaus) in

Plön Plön (; Holsatian: ''Plöön'') is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as o ...

in the North German state of

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sc ...

is a former royal summer residence in the grounds of the park at

Plön Castle Plön Castle (german: Plöner Schloss) in Plön is one of the largest castles in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein and the only one located on a hill.

. It is the only surviving

maison de plaisance In Renaissance and Early Modern German architecture, a ''Lustschloss'' (french: maison de plaisance, both equating in English to "pleasure castle/house") is a small country house or palace which served the private pleasure of its owner, usual ...

in Schleswig-Holstein. It was given its present name because at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century it was used as a residence and school for the sons of the German emperor, William II. At that time it was enlarged with two extensions. A farm on nearby Princes' Island served the princes as a learning site for agricultural skills.

Sources

* Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz (Hg.in): ''Kulturerbe bewahren. Förderprojekte der Deutschen Stiftung Denkmalschutz. Bd. 3: Schlösser, Burgen, Parks''. Monumente, Bonn 2004, , S. 202–211. * Dehio: ''Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein''.

Deutscher Kunstverlag The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich. The publisher specializes in books about art, cultural history, architecture, and historic preservation. History Deutscher Kunstverlag was fo ...

, München 1994, * J. Habich, D. Lafrenz, H. Schulze, L. Wilde: ''Schlösser und Gutsanlagen in Schleswig-Holstein''. L&H Verlag, Hamburg 1998,

External links

Prinzenhaus, PlönFriends of the Plön Prinzenhaus

Insights of Plön with historic postcards of the Prinzenhaus

More details and photographs at www.monumente-online.de
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