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needs, the cheerful mood and lightness of the Rococo is conveyed and the Gohlis Palace is developed into a center of social life and civic responsibility. The rooms are used for concerts and theater events as well as exhibitions. The Oeser Hall on the upper floor is available for civil and non-denominational weddings, while the stone hall, which can be accessed from the gardens, provides a dignified setting for funeral ceremonies. Guided tours are held and some rooms are used as a cultural café for catering or can be booked for company or private family celebrations.
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in its original structure, in strict compliance with the heritage protection requirements. At the same time, the entire palace complex is to be made accessible to as wide a public as possible. Through culturally appealing and varied event formats, flexible space options and opening times tailored to
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The rooms next to the halls are each reached via a simple corridor on the courtyard side and contain exhibits on the history of the house and sample furnishings, as not much of the house's original furnishings has been preserved despite its eventful history. As a bourgeois country house, the palace
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strips. Above this rises a 36 metres (118 ft) tall tower-like structure, which is why the complex was previously called the
Turmgut (Tower Manor). Because of the hillside location, in addition to the ground and upper floors on the courtyard side, there is also a base floor on the garden side.
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During the general renovation from 1991 to 1998, the building was restored to its 18th century condition. From 1998, the
Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig ran the house. At the end of 2003, austerity measures forced its closure. Between 2004 and 2020, the Friends of Gohliser Schlösschen eV
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built in the then village of Gohlis, northwest of
Leipzig. The plot of land on which the building was constructed was created by merging two adjacent farms that belonged to Christiana Regina Richter (1724–1780), the owner's wife. Comparative studies suggest that the Leipzig municipal architect
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period that were scattered in and around the wealthy trading city of
Leipzig, the Gohlis Palace is the last one still standing because it did not fall victim to land speculation around 1900, like many of the magnificent Baroque buildings in the city center.
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operated the complex. Since 1 April 2021, the newly founded "Gohliser Schlösschen | Musenhof am
Rosental gemeinnĂĽtzige GmbH" has operated the palace complex. The aim is to preserve the culturally and historically significant building and the associated
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The plot of the Gohlis Palace stretches between the streets named
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The middle section contains three representative rooms, one above the other, facing the garden. On the ground floor is the stone or garden room, a vaulted room. Above this is the salon and on the upper floor is the ballroom. The
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has no representative entrance rooms or a magnificent staircase. Due to the long period of time between the construction and the interior work of the house, the latter is no longer characterized by Rococo, but rather by
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After the garden, two single-storey extensions, each about 50 metres (164 ft) long, are attached to the main building. The eastern extension, which now serves as a café, used to house a
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The main building of the Gohlis Palace is a three-wing complex about 40 metres (131 ft) wide with side wings just 4 metres (13 ft) long on the courtyard side. The
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family, from whom it passed in the next generation to the
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of 1813, it initially provided quarters for high-ranking military officers, and then served as a military hospital. In 1832, the city council sold it to the
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in the middle section is flat on the courtyard side and arched outwards on the garden side and is slightly divided by
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