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Oranienbaum Palace

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Location: Oranienbaum-Wörlitz, Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Entrance Gate - Ferropolis – Ferropolis – City of Iron loop from Gräfenhainichen

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2. Oranienbaum Palace – View of the Mulde Weir loop from Dessau-Waldersee

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3. Paved Cycle Path – Oranienbaum Palace loop from Gasviertel

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Schakal

February 17, 2024

From 1681 to around 1685, the castle was built in the first construction phase as a summer residence for Princess Henriette Catharina, wife of Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt-Dessau and née Princess of Orange-Nassau. The Dutch master builder Cornelis Ryckwaert, who worked in Brandenburg, was commissioned with the construction. Initially, only a palace with cavalier pavilions was built and a 28-hectare baroque garden was laid out in the Dutch style. A moat separates the inner semicircular garden parterre from the outer one, which has retained its geometric structure. At the same time, Ryckwaert also had the city of Oranienbaum built on a geometric floor plan. The princess, who had Dutch business acumen, had a glassworks built in 1669 and a brewery in 1693, and tobacco had been grown in Oranienbaum since 1693.

After the prince's death in 1693, Oranienbaum was converted into today's three-wing castle as a widow's residence for Princess Henriette Catharina (1698 to around 1702). The staggered side wings have a Dutch look. A rich interior with valuable leather wallpaper, faience and paintings gave the house its splendor, which today is, among other things, The tile cellar, the leather wallpaper hall and the mirror crystal hall with its unusual modern objects by the Dutch glass artist Bernhard Heesen also bear witness. The portrait gallery of the Ascanians, paintings from the “Oranian Heritage” (part of which can still be seen in Mosigkau Castle today) and the painting collection of the dissolved Amalienstift adorned the castle until 1945. In the basement is the summer dining room, furnished with Delft ceramic tiles.

Chinese tea house

Pagoda in the castle park
After Henriette Catharina's death in 1708, the baroque town church was completed in 1712. From then on, the princes of Anhalt-Dessau only used the castle occasionally for hunts. It was only Prince Leopold Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, the creator of the Dessau-Wörlitz park landscape, who showed more interest in Oranienbaum Palace again. He had the palace and park redesigned after 1780. Numerous rooms received new furnishings in the Chinese style, although the wall paintings remained partly fragmentary. The former baroque island garden was redesigned from 1793 to 1797 according to the ideas of the English landscape gardener Sir William Chambers into the only largely preserved Anglo-Chinese garden in Germany, with a five-story pagoda, a Chinese tea house accessible from the water and several arched bridges.
In the southern part of the garden, the 175 m long orangery, one of the largest in Europe, was built in 1811 and has been used to house a large collection of citrus plants and other rare trees ever since.
Source de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Oranienbaum

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Schakal

February 17, 2024

After 1927, a branch gallery was opened in the castle by the director of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Ludwig Grote. He commissioned Hinnerk Scheper from the Bauhaus Dessau to design the colors and restore old paintings.[1][2]

After the Second World War, the GDR housed a branch of the Magdeburg State Archives in Oranienbaum Castle from 1953 onwards. This branch was upgraded to the independent Oranienbaum State Archives in 1993. At the beginning of the 21st century the archive moved to Dessau. The castle was then opened to visitors in 2003. The restoration work on and in the castle is well advanced (as of April 2023).[3]

On March 3, 2004, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands visited Oranienbaum Castle and inspected the progress of the restoration work in her ancestor's castle.

The ensemble of town, palace and park Oranienbaum, built on a geometric floor plan, is now a rare example of a predominantly Dutch Baroque complex in Germany.

The castle can be visited.[4] The castle park is freely accessible;[5] the restored pagoda and the tea house are accessible upon registration. In the orangery there are, among other things: a café and a carriage exhibition housed. Next to the orangery there is a large citrus garden. (As of 2012) North of the orangery is the garden center of the castle park from around 1790.
Source de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Oranienbaum

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Dr. WS

June 16, 2019

Beautiful castle and gardens. Henriette Catharina, wife of Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt-Dessau, this castle was built in 1683 as a summer residence. Due to the descent from the house Oranien-Nassau she gave the place his name. This is the basis of the Dutch character of the entire system. Currently (as of 06/2019) renovation work

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Location: Oranienbaum-Wörlitz, Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Oranienbaum Palace

1. Entrance Gate - Ferropolis – Ferropolis – City of Iron loop from Gräfenhainichen

2. Oranienbaum Palace – View of the Mulde Weir loop from Dessau-Waldersee

3. Paved Cycle Path – Oranienbaum Palace loop from Gasviertel

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