Mosigkau Palace

Mosigkau CastleMosigkau Castle, south view 2012Garden front with gallery hall
Mosigkau Castle is a castle in Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt. It was built as a rococo palace between 1752 and 1757 in the heart of the village of Mosigkau, eight kilometers southwest of Dessau, as a summer residence. It is one of the last completely preserved Rococo ensembles in Central Germany. Its park is part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm UNESCO World Heritage Site. Special exhibitions and concerts regularly take place in the Mosigkau Castle Museum and the Orangery.
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Architecture and history of originChristoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky, Princess Anna Wilhelmine (1715–1780)
By donating two estates in 1742/43 and a considerable allowance, Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau enabled his unmarried favorite daughter, Princess Anna Wilhelmine, from her relationship with the Dessau pharmacist's daughter Anneliese Föhse, to build the palace and gardens.The first drafts probably come from the Sanssouci architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. The actual builder was the Dessau court architect Christian Friedrich Damm, whom Anna Wilhelmine commissioned to build the summer residence in 1752. Corps de logis, cavalier houses and commercial buildings are located around the courtyard.
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Interior and gallery hallLarge ballroom 1966
17 rooms can be viewed, some of them in their original condition. In the vestibule of the Corps de Logis there is a two-armed staircase, here is the tapestry The Triumph of the Church over Idolatry, made in a Brussels workshop around 1630 based on a design by Peter Paul Rubens, and originally from the city palace in Dessau. The middle of the garden side is occupied by the picture gallery, from which five large glass doors lead into the garden. It is decorated with stucco and equipped with Venetian crystal crowns. In recessed wall areas, it houses paintings, some of which have been adapted by trimming or fragmentation, in the original Baroque hanging of the period in which they were created, predominantly by Flemish and Dutch masters of the 17th century from the “Oranian Heritage”. The wall panels are framed by pilasters made of green stucco marble.[1] The works include Zephyr and Flora by Peter Paul Rubens, The Princes of Orange by Anton van Dyck and pictures by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Ä., Jacob Jordaens, Hendrick Goltzius and Gerard van Honthorst.The pictures come from the collection of Amalie zu Solms-Braunfels (1602–1675), wife of the governor of the Netherlands Friedrich Heinrich von Orange and mother of Henriette Catharina von Nassau-Oranien, who brought the inheritance to Dessau and left it to her son Leopold I . Other parts of the collection went to the Dessau Residence Palace, the Oranienbaum Palace and the Gothic House in Wörlitz. The castle also contains an extensive collection of portraits of Anhaltinian princes, including many by Georg Lisiewski and Antoine Pesne. On either side of the gallery there are two cabinets in Frederick's rococo style, with silver tendrils on a blue and yellow background, marble fireplaces, inset pictures and supraportes, Chinese wallpaper and inlaid furniture.
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