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View of Merseburg Castle and Cathedral

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View of Merseburg Castle and Cathedral

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Location: Merseburg, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Large Weir – Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) loop from Schkopau

13.5km

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2. Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) – Reichsbahn Bridge Schkopau loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

13.1km

03:21

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3. Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) – Wallendorfer Lake loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

22.6km

05:45

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Karla Chen

March 4, 2023

View of one of the sights in Merseburg that you should definitely visit

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FlotteSocke🌞

May 30, 2022

A beautiful view of the castle from the Saale bank

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Michi LE

November 25, 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.

description

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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Location: Merseburg, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

View of Merseburg Castle and Cathedral

1. Large Weir – Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) loop from Schkopau

2. Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) – Reichsbahn Bridge Schkopau loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

3. Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) – Wallendorfer Lake loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

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