Schloss Muskau (Muskau palace) is a ''

schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...

'' in the

Görlitz district Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, :de:Ostlausitzer Mundart, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and ...

in the state of

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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. It is located in an extended park, the ''

Muskau Park Muskau Park (german: Muskauer Park, officially: ''Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau''; pl, Park Mużakowski) is a landscape park in the Upper Lusatia region of Germany and Poland. It is the largest and one of the most famous English gardens in Ce ...

'', since July 2004 a UNESCO

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. The building complex was developed over a long period. The present main building, called ''Neues Schloss'' (New Palace), was built in the 19th century in Neo-Renaissance style, burnt down in 1945, and after decades as a ruin, was reconstructed until 2013.

Geography

Muskau Park is the largest and one of the most famous

English landscape garden The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (french: Jardin à l'anglaise, it, Giardino all'inglese, german: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, pt, Jardim inglês, es, Jardín inglés), is a sty ...

s in Central Europe, stretching along both sides of the German–Polish border on the

Lusatian Neisse The Lusatian Neisse (german: Lausitzer Neiße; pl, Nysa Łużycka; cs, Lužická Nisa; Upper Sorbian: ''Łužiska Nysa''; Lower Sorbian: ''Łužyska Nysa''), or Western Neisse, is a river in northern Central Europe.Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871). Pückler reconstructed the medieval fortress as the "New Castle", the compositional centre of the park, with a network of paths radiating from it and a pleasure ground influenced by the ideas of

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

, whose son John Adey worked at Muskau from 1822 on. The extensions went on until 1845, when Pückler because of his enormous debts was constrained to sell the patrimony. The next year it was acquired by

Prince Frederick of the Netherlands Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (full names: Willem Frederik Karel; 28 February 1797, in Berlin – 8 September 1881, in Wassenaar), was the second son of William I of the Netherlands and his wife, Wilhelmine of Pru ...

, who employed

Eduard Petzold Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (14 January 1815 – August 1891) was a German landscape gardener. Life Petzold was born in Königswalde (Lubniewice), Brandenburg. As a child, he followed his parents in 1826 to Muskau, visiting the town's schoo ...

, Pückler's disciple and a well-known landscape gardener, to complete his design. Upon his death in 1881, he was succeeded by his daughter Princess Marie, who sold the estates to the Count von Arnim.

Literature

* Hermann Graf von Arnim / Willi A. Boelcke: ''Muskau – Standesherrschaft zwischen Spree und Neiße.'' Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1992. . * Sophie Gräfin von Arnim: ''Bilder aus Muskaus Vergangenheit.'' vol. 1,2. Görlitz 1934/35, Bd 3. München 1973. * Regina Barufke / Ekkehard Brucks / Ellen Kollewe / Helmut Rippl: ''Fürst Pückler-Park Bad Muskau – ein europäischer Landschaftspark.'' Beiträge zur Stadt- und Parkgeschichte Nr. 15 mit zwei Kartenbeilagen. Bad Muskau 1998. . * Willi A. Boelke: ''Verfassungswandel und Wirtschaftsstruktur. Die mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche Territorialgeschichte ostmitteldeutscher Adelsherrschaften als Beispiel.'' Würzburg 1969. * Lars-Arne Dannenberg,

Matthias Donath Matthias Donath (born in 1975) is a German art historian and author. He appears as an expert discussing the Pergamon Altar in the second season of the television show Museum Secrets ''Museum Secrets'' is a TV series on History Television in ...

: ''Schlösser in der östlichen Oberlausitz.'' Meißen 2009. * Joachim Fait, Detlef Karg (Hrsg.): ''Hermann Ludwig Heinrich Fürst von Pückler-Muskau. Gartenkunst und Denkmalpflege.'' Weimar 1989. . * Hermann Friedrich von Knothe: ''Geschichte des Oberlausitzer Adels und seiner Güter vom 13. bis gegen Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts.'' Spitzkunnersdorf 2008. . * Erich Merkle (ed.): ''Chronik von Stadt und Park Bad Muskau.'' Weißwasser 1997. . *

Hermann von Pückler-Muskau Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Miss ...

: ''Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei verbunden mit der Beschreibung ihrer praktischen Anwendung in Muskau'',

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Stuttgart 1977. . * Helmut Rippl (Hr.): ''Der Parkschöpfer Pückler-Muskau. Das gartenkünstlerische Erbe des Fürsten Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau.'' Weimar 1995. . * Stiftung „Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau“ (ed.): ''Fürst Pückler. Parkomanie in Muskau und Branitz.'' Ein Führer durch seine Anlagen in Sachsen, Brandenburg und Thüringen. Hamburg 2006. .

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