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Inside the building the staircase was formed with decorative cast-iron railings and the view, with the tracery of the cathedral windows, is representative of the south side of the castle's centre. Stuccoed ceilings in almost every room and a finely paneled Great Music Room reflect the personal tastes
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The castle's park, now open to the public, was greatly expanded in 1868 at the construction of the new Schloss with some newly acquired land. In this way, the municipal well, important to the water supply of the households of Ketschendorf, was included. The old source now feeds the castle's pond,
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in Coburg two years before, for the renovation of the ducal Empire-style manor. Rothbart, however, created a new castle, bigger and stronger, next to the original building and condemned the first building, only 63 years old, to be demolished because its "surrounding walls were, for the most part,
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with an overlying terrace leads from the bedroom of the Baroness. The porch's columns on the north front entrance copy the central projection of the south side in a simpler way. The building owner was allowed to attach her new family crest, carved in sandstone, to the northwest corner tower. The
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von Mayer bought the castle and park as a family residence. In 1893 a staircase was created for the castle by Johannes Koehler with a tracery balustrade as an access to the park. In 1940, it came under state administration through foreclosure because of the alleged debt of 145,000
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and moved back to Paris to devote herself to charity. She died penniless in 1903 and was buried at the expense of the overseers of the poor in Paris in a common pauper's grave. The new owner of the castle was, for a few months, a municipal architect from Coburg,
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of the Baroness von Stolzenau was surrounded by a large park. The current structure was built in 1868/9 following the demolition of the earlier one. It never served as a residence for a ruling prince or member of the nobility. After 1956 it was used as a youth
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Her great wealth enabled the freshly ennobled Baroness to acquire Schloss Ketschendorf with the adjoining park grounds for 100,000 francs, allegedly for her illegitimate son Charles, whose father, according to the Baroness, was none other than
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No. 4 in Coburg, which quite accurately reproduced the appearance of the old Schloss Ketschendorf in every way and by using the original porches with its classical columns from the old Schloss. This villa is therefore also called the
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and the expulsion of the Jewish family Mayer. The town of Coburg bought Schloss Ketschendorf at auction, for 45,000 Reichsmark, including the park and furnishings, and set up a shelter for German repatriates from
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After the death of the duke in 1806, Schloss Ketschendorf remained the property of the widow Augusta. Besides her seven children, many princes came to visit with the duchess. They were her sons-in-law,
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moved his personal quarters to Ketschendorf. Only two years later, during another siege in 1634/5 the Imperial Colonel Schlitz destroyed the whole village with his
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At the edge of the castle's pond stood the massive greenhouse. In the postwar years, it was abandoned to disrepair. It was eventually sold in 1959 to the
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protruding from the top of the porch. The porch on the south side, designed as the entrance to the park, is particularly complicated. Above the gate, a
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In June 1869, the new Schloss Ketschendorf was finished and the old one was demolished. The demolition material was used to build a villa at
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which is located in the middle of the park. As a replacement for the no longer accessible community fountain, the Baroness donated the
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Mayer sold the property in 1955 to the town of Coburg which in 1956 began to operate the Schloss as a youth hostel in the
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but a part of the historic park, equipped with areas for games, sports, meadows and ponds, remained with the town.
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as a textbook example of Gothic Revival castle style in the Coburger Land. All four sides are flanked by octagonal
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totally rotten". Within less than a year, he achieved, with the use of 70 craftsmen, the construction.
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The former greenhouse, converted to a gymnasium, was purchased in 1996 by the town. Around 2002, the
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shows a harp and a helmet with a baron's coronet and two folded wings. The motto underneath reads
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Ernst II eventually raised her to the peerage in 1865. She could then be addressed as the
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In 1872, the American William Tilden acquired the property and sold it in 1873 to the
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Already in 1868 the Baroness von Ketschendorf commissioned an architect from Coburg,
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lion on the left side and three ears of corn on the right side, above which is a
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residence, located in Ketschendorf, at the foot of the Buchberg, in the town of
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in 1815, Victorine Noël had already been, for the last 22 years, a celebrated
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ward of the State Hospital. The family property was returned in 1954 to Egon
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The new castle, with an almost square ground plan, was built from
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without ever appearing in the court theaters of Gotha or Coburg.
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in Milan and never again appeared in the public as a singer.
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has been vacant since the hostel closed in December 2010.
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was installed between the kitchen and the overlying hall.
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Frederick Louis, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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Built at the beginning of the 19th century, the original
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known as an architect of the Luther and Rückert School.
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Schlösser und Burgen im Umkreis der Fränkischen Krone
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In 1831, after the death of Dowager Duchess Augusta,
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of Coburg acquired the offices of the building. The
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The historic equipment in the entrance's stairwell (
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and reconstruction started in earnest only in 1657.
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Schloss Ketschendorf is located in Bavaria
Schloss Ketschendorf is located in Germany
Gothic Revival style
Coburg
Germany
Coordinates
50°14′35″N 10°58′26″E / 50.243056°N 10.974°E / 50.243056; 10.974
Gothic Revival
Coburg
Bavaria
Germany
Schloss
hostel

Hussite
German Peasants' War
plague
Veste Coburg

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