Top 20 Castles around Mellingen

Tiefurt Castle Duchess Anna Amalia's summer residence The current design reflects the taste of the time around 1800. Originally it was the estate tenant's house, until Duchess Anna Amalia took over the modest castle building after Ettersburg Castle as a summer residence and turned it into a place for literary and social meetings. The Duchess made a conscious decision not to change the exterior architecture, as she particularly liked the rural ambience. Anna Amalia also gathered scholars and friends around her in Tiefurt. The heyday of Tiefurt's sociability, which was reflected in Tiefurt's journal, is associated with the first four years of her summer stays. Performances by the Weimar amateur theater were among the special events. Tour Several works of art commemorate Anna Amalia's trip to Italy from 1788 to 1790, including a watercolor by Johann Georg Schütz showing the Duchess and her traveling party surrounded by Roman artists in the garden of the Villa d'Este. Sculptures and busts by the court sculptor Gottlieb Martin Klauer in the stairwell as well as porcelain from China, Meissen, Copenhagen, Fürstenberg and Vienna are among the artistic highlights of the furnishings. From the courtyard, it is possible to look into the cold kitchen with a variety of utensils. The historical display dishes made of porcelain, wax and papier-mâché on display there come from the ducal property and imitate the dishes in a deceptively realistic way. Text / Source: Weimar GmbH, Tourist Information Weimar, Markt 4, Weimar https://www.weimar.de/kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/schloesser/schloss-tiefurt/#:~:text=Schloss%20Tiefurt.%20Herzogin%20Anna%20Amalias%20Sommersitz.%20Die

Tiefurt Castle Park The Tiefurt Castle Park extends over an area of 21 hectares on both sides of the Ilm. Gently sloping meadows with beautiful groups of trees extend to the river bank. Beyond this, a steep slope covered with dense trees rises. Numerous monuments and park architecture such as the tea pavilion invite you to explore. The Ilmtal cycle path runs directly along the river. Text / Source: Weimar GmbH, Tourist Information Weimar, Markt 4, Weimar https://www.weimar.de/kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/parks-und-gaerten/schlosspark-tiefurt/#:~:text=Der%20Schlosspark%20Tiefurt%20erstreckt%20sich%20auf%20einer%20Fl%C3%A4che%20von

"When Mortaigne redesigned the palace gardens in 1666, he set 64 niches for sandstone busts in the garden wall. It is not clear how many busts Mortaigne had made and how many his successor, Duke Wilhelm Ernst, had made. It is assumed that the majority of the busts are attributable to Wilhelm Ernst, as he was better off financially and was also a collector of such pieces. From 1709 onwards he commissioned the sculptor Hans Caspar Ritze to make more busts. When the French troops marched through Kromsdorf in 1806, they knocked off the noses of all but around 11 busts. The sculptor Dupont began restoring them in 1833 on the orders of Grand Duke Carl Friedrich. The rulers and military leaders are by far the most numerous, with 45 busts. There are only three poets and thinkers, however. It is also striking that only one woman is mentioned by name: Anne Stuart. The other female busts have impersonal names, such as "Woman from the island of Chios" From Wikipedia Some noses are still missing...

The castle was built in the 17th century in the Baroque style. Originally it was a manor house built on behalf of Count von Hatzfeldt. In the 18th century it was remodeled in the Rococo style. The castle was inhabited by various noble families and served as a residence and representative residence.

The park of the Kromsdorf castle complex is surrounded by a large stone wall. There are small niches in this wall. Between 1670 and 1730, 64 stone busts were created here.

2 bears carved in stone guard the main entrance of Kromsdorf Castle

Beautifully landscaped park outside of Weimar.

Beautifully landscaped park outside of Weimar.