The Schloss Fantaisie is a castle, situated 3.1 miles west of the city

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 ...

in the community

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. The roots of this castle are in the medieval, but there is not much left from this time. In the 16th century the Lords of Lüchau (Lüchauer Herren) built a plain

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Castle. When Friedrich Ludwig von Lüchau died in 1757, the castle fell back to

Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (May 10, 1711 in Weferlingen – February 26, 1763 in Bayreuth), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the eldest son of Georg Frederick Karl, nomin ...

. In 1761 he started to build a new castle at the same location as an additional summer residence. The building was inspired from impressions of an Italian journey of the Margrave couple

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and Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. In the year 1763 the Margraves only daughter Fredericka Sophie inherited the castle. She used the name Fantaisie for her castle and authorized the builder Johann Jakob Spindler to continue the building. Because of many modifications there is not much left from the original castle but you can see a replica of the "Spindler-Kabinett", a wooden room with

intarsia Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The start of the practice dates from before the seventh century AD. The technique of intarsia inlays sections of wood (at times with contrasting ivory or bone, or mother-of-pear ...

work of the brothers Johann Friedrich and Heinrich Wilhelm Spindler. In the Fall of 1937, the palace was remodeled by Gauleiter Wächtler for use as the Reichsschule des NS-Lehrerbundes. The architects for the project were Alfred Locke of Bayreuth and Ernst Max Jahn of Leipzig. In early 1938, an article appeared in Modern Bauformen showing the newly created interiors.Moderne Bauformen: Monatshefte für Architektur und Raumkunst, Stuttgart, 1938, pp.79-84 Since 2000 Schloss Fantaisie has been the first

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museum, exclusively devoted to the history of garden design.

References

External links

Garden Museum Fantaisie Palace and Park

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fantaisie, Schloss Castles in Bavaria Buildings and structures in Bayreuth (district)