The New Castle (''Neues Schloss'') is a nineteenth century palace in
Hechingen
Hechingen (; Swabian: ''Hächenga'') is a town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated about south of the state capital of Stuttgart and north of Lake Constance and the Swiss border.
Geography
The town lies at the foot of th ...
in Germany. It served as the city residence for princes of the
House of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...
.
History
The first building on the site was a Renaissance-style residence built by
Eitel Frederick IV, Count of Hohenzollern in the late 16th century. Apart from a few minor remnants, it was demolished by
Friedrich Hermann Otto at the start of the 19th century to make way for the three-wing present structure, built between 1818 and 1819, designed by
Rudolf Burnitz and funded by French reparations from the
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon, Napol ...
. Burnitz was a pupil of
Friedrich Weinbrenner
Friedrich Weinbrenner (24 November 1766 – 1 March 1826) was a German architect and city planner admired for his mastery of classical style.
Birth and education
Weinbrenner was born in Karlsruhe, and began his career apprenticed to his father, ...
, a leading neo-classical architect in the Grand Duchy of Baden. The castle remained unfinished, since the principality was in debt and the funds for its construction ran out.
Bibliography
* Friedrich Hossfeld und Hans Vogel: ''Die Kunstdenkmäler Hohenzollerns, Bd. 1: Kreis Hechingen''. Holzinger, Hechingen 1939, S. 186 ff.
* Wulf Schirmer (Hrsg.): ''Friedrich Weinbrenner und die Weinbrenner-Schule, Bd. 1: Die barocke Stadtplanung und die ersten klassizistischen Entwürfe Weinbrenners''. Müller, Karlsruhe 1996, (zugl. Dissertation, Universität Karlsruhe 1990).
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