Tiefurt House (german: link=no, Schloss Tiefurt) is a small stately home on the
Ilm river in the Tiefurt
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of
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
, about 4 km east of the city centre. It was the summer residence of duchess
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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. Because of its importance as a centre of culture during the
Weimar Classicism
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movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Tiefurt House was inscribed on the
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in 1998 as part of the
Classical Weimar site.
History
The house originated at the end of the 16th century as the tenant's house (''Pächterhaus'') of a ducal estate (''Kammergut''), and was converted and extended in 1765. It consists of a main building, with an upper floor of 7 rooms, and a smaller auxiliary building connected to it.
Charles Augustus
Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political uni ...
granted it to his brother Constantine for his own court, under Constantine's tutor
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
Karl Ludwig von Knebel (30 November 1744 – 23 February 1834) was a German poet and translator.
Biography
He was born at the Castle of Wallerstein (near Nördlingen) in Franconia. After having studied law for a short while at Halle, he entered th ...
in 1776. Four years later their mother selected it as her summer seat during a long absence of the prince. She and her two servants occupied the upper floor, with her courtier,
Luise von Göchhausen, in the auxiliary building. For around 25 years the castle was Anna Amalia's favourite residence and the centre of a circle of poets, as part of
Weimar Classicism
Weimar Classicism (german: Weimarer Klassik) was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after ...
.
On the duchess's death in 1807 the building became neglected, though Charles Augustus's son
Charles Frederick began renovation work within Goethe's lifetime. In 1907 it opened to the public as a museum, and from 1978 to 1981 it was restored to its 1800 decor, with the sequence of rooms restored to that of Anna Amalia's time.
Park
On the nearby meadow was a landscape garden in the English style, also open to the public.
Schiller is buried in the grand-ducal burial chamber in the grounds. The well-known landscape gardener
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 ...
was put in charge of the gardens during the 19th-century renovations.
Image:Oer-Weimarer Musenhof.jpg, ''Der Weimarer Musenhof'' - a scene in the castle gardens.
Image:Schlosspark Tiefurt (Musentempel).jpg, Temple to the Muses, with a sculpture of Polyhymnia, 1803.
Image:Schlosspark Tiefurt (Gelbe Brücke zum Teesalon) bearbeitet.jpg, The "Yellow Bridge" over the Ilm looking towards the teahouse in the 21 hectare castle park.
See also
*
Weimar courtyard of the muses
References
External links
Tiefurt Mansion and Park
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Tierfurt
Classical Weimar World Heritage Site
Museums in Weimar
Historic house museums in Germany
Parks in Germany