The Löwenburg, Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Visiting Germany скачать в хорошем качестве

The Löwenburg, Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Visiting Germany

The Löwenburg is picturesquely situated in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe. From afar it appears to the visitor like a romantic knight's castle from the Middle Ages. However, it was built between 1793 and 1801. As a pseudo-medieval "ancestral castle" by its builder, Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel, later Elector Wilhelm I., the court architect Heinrich Christoph Jussow implemented the bold plans structurally. The Löwenburg did not serve as a fortress, but as a pleasure palace.Inside you will find princely living quarters, whose rich furnishings with historical furniture, paintings, tapestries, glasses, bronzes, a magnificent collection of weapons and medieval glass windows reflect the great passion of the builder for collecting. The Löwenburg draws its fascination from its picturesque location in the park, as well as from the tension between "medieval" castle architecture and the spatial sequences of a "baroque" castle. The Löwenburg is thus park scenery, pleasure palace and mausoleum in equal measure (Elector Wilhelm I is buried in the castle chapel) and represents a total work of art that is unique in the world and 17th century as well as the castle chapel. (source: stadtfuehrungen-kassel.de)