Traventhal House (german: Schloss Traventhal) in the municipality of

Traventhal Traventhal is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It gave name to the Peace of Travendal The Peace of Travendal was a peace treaty concluded at the outset of the Great Northern War on 18 August 1700 betwe ...

near

Bad Segeberg Bad Segeberg (; Low German: Sebarg) is a German town of 16,000 inhabitants, located in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district (Kreis) Segeberg. It is situated approximately northeast of Hamburg, and west of Lübeck. It is famo ...

in the southern part of the 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 Sch ...

was the summer residence of the dukes of

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön The Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (german: Herzogtum Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön), also ''Schleswig-Holstein-Plön'', ''Holstein-Plön'' or just ''Duchy of Plön'', was a small sub-duchy (''Teilherzogtum'') created by the p ...

. In the 18th century the house was renowned for its

Baroque garden The Baroque garden was a style of garden based upon symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. The style originated in the late-16th century in Italy, in the gardens of the Vatican and the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome and in the ga ...

, which was the largest and most significant of its kind in the duchies.Dehio: ''Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein'', p. 870. On the dissolution of the Duchy of Plön in 1761 the brief heyday of the stately home came to an end. The original house was demolished at the end of the 19th century and replaced by a new building typical of the time in the

historicist Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely u ...

style.

Sources

* Hartwig Beseler (Hrsg.): ''Kunsttopographie Schleswig-Holstein.'' Neumünster 1974, S. 767. * Hubertus Neuschäffer: ''Schleswig-Holsteins Schlösser und Herrenhäuser''. Husum Verlag, Husum 1992, . * Peter Hirschfeld: ''Herrenhäuser und Schlösser in 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 1980, . * Hans und Doris Maresch: ''Schleswig-Holsteins Schlösser, Herrenhäuser und Palais''. Husum Verlag, Husum 2006, . *

Georg Dehio Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 21 March 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian. In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgesch ...

: '' Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein''. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1994, .

External links

Veranstaltungs- und Kulturzentrum Landgestüt Traventhal

Webauftritt der Gemeinde Traventhal

References

{{Coord, 53.89191, N, 10.317514, E, type:landmark_region:DE-SH, display=title, format=dms Buildings and structures in Segeberg Manor houses in Germany