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Entrance to the Merseburg Palace courtyard

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Entrance to the Merseburg Palace courtyard

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Entrance to the Merseburg Palace courtyard

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Location: Merseburg, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Saaleuferweg Merseburg – Reichsbahnbrücke Schkopau loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

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2. Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) – Large Weir loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

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3. Saale Riverside Path, Merseburg – Merseburg Palace Garden loop from Merseburg

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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

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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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Heideläuferin

August 9, 2022

The local government has an imposing entrance. 😀

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Viajera

May 29, 2023

The castle is right next to the cathedral. Secular and ecclesiastical centers of power are closely related.

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Location: Merseburg, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Entrance to the Merseburg Palace courtyard

1. Saaleuferweg Merseburg – Reichsbahnbrücke Schkopau loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

2. Saale Riverside Path (Saaleuferweg) – Large Weir loop from Merseburg Hauptbahnhof

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