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Seasons Fountain Merseburg

Seasons Fountain Merseburg

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    1. Merseburg Palace Garden – Large Weir loop from Schkopau

    12.8km

    03:17

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    Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    March 20, 2021

    Historically a very recent fountain that was not built there until the 20th century. There used to be a synagogue there. On the 8 sides of the fountain there are bronze representations of the seasons.

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      February 18, 2022

      On the pillar of the fountain stands a beauty whose robe seems to be falling to the ground. She wants to go swimming...

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        July 11, 2022

        Merseburg Residential Palace

        construction time

        15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century,

        18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century

        1470s to 1483, 1489, 1520s/1530s, 1605 to 1608,

        around 1665, after 1815, 1887 to 1890, before 1972

        architectural style

        Renaissance, Baroque, Historicism,

        builder

        Bishop Thilo von Trotha (1470s to 1483, east wing, 1489 north wing, 16th century west wing),

        Bishop Adolf of Anhalt and Bishop Vinzenz von Schleinitz (1520s/1530s),

        Duke Johann Georg I of Saxony (1605 to 1608),

        Duke Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg (around 1665),

        Builder/Architect

        Melchior Brenner (1605 to 1608),

        Condition

        The castle in Merseburg has been renovated. The park is in good condition.

        Todays use

        administration, museum, music school,

        Access

        The grounds of the palace in Merseburg and the park are open to the public. The residential palace can be partially visited.


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        Layout

        Original location of a royal palace, around 1260 first bishop's palace (Bishop Heinrich von Wahren), large closed four-wing complex, south wing is formed by the cathedral, west of the palace outbuildings, north of the palace garden with orangery.

        structure

        three storey

        facade

        originally plastered, today exposed brickwork, rich design of the wings with stair towers, dormer houses, portals and oriels,

        roof shape

        pitched roof


        Further information

        park


        The palace garden is adjacent to the palace. In the palace gardens are the palace garden salon (begun in 1727), two pairs of obelisks, a portrait bust of the Prussian governor Friedrich Kleist von Nollendorf (Christian Daniel Rauch, 1825) and the equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1913).

        Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/schloesser-herrenhaeuser/schloss-merseburg-halle-saale

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          Elevation 160 m

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          Location: Merseburg, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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