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Neues Jagdschloss Hummelshain

Germany

Location
Hummelshain
Coordinates
50.7701°, 11.6278°
Links
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Neues Jagdschloss Hummelshain in Germany
Photo: Michael Sander · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Neues Schloss Hummelshain is a palace in the municipality of Hummelshain in the Saale-Holzland-Kreis in Thuringia. It was built in 1880–85 as a hunting lodge and residential palace of the dukes of Saxe-Altenburg by the Berlin architects Ernst von Ihne and Paul Stegmüller and is regarded as an outstanding testimony to the architecture of historicism. It is the last new residence built by a ruling house in Thuringia, and thus marks the end point of a cultural epoch.

In 2017 it was classified by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as an architectural monument of national importance and admitted to the monument preservation programme “National wertvolle Kulturdenkmäler”, in order to make lasting securing measures possible for the palace, which is threatened by decay.

Machine-translated from “Neues Schloss Hummelshain, Jagd- und Residenzschloss” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Neues Jagdschloss Hummelshain ranks #5,581 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #517 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,356 times in the last 60 days, more than 64% of the atlas. 9 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 46 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Thuringia. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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