Schloss Derneburg | castle, monastery, interesting place

Germany / Niedersachsen / Holle / Schloßstraße, 1
 castle, monastery, interesting place
Derneburg Castle and its domain were bought in 2006 by the American art collector Andrew Hall, who wants to house his contemporary art collection with works by Georg Baselitz here. The Laves cultural path leads through the former landscape garden of the castle.

The former Herrenhof Derneburg was donated to the Hildesheim church in 1143. 70 years later, Augustinians from Holle founded a monastery here, which was closed at the beginning of the 14th century and handed over to the Cistercian reform order in 1441. In the times of the Reformation, Derneburg was a Lutheran virgin convent before it came back into the hands of the Cistercians in 1651. They built the agricultural buildings and a new baroque monastery church was built between 1735 and 1749 under Abbot Arnu.

The monastery was closed at the beginning of the 19th century and fell to the Welfish Kingdom after the Vienna Congress of 1814. King George III Derneburg gave to his influential minister Graf zu Münster, who, together with the architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, had the former monastery rebuilt and created an English landscape garden all around.

(Not open to the public)

www.derneburg.net/
Wikipedia article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Derneburg
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Coordinates:   52°5'42"N   10°7'56"E

Comments

  • it would be nice if all you wealthy people but some money to good use and realy help people that are less forgenate.you woun't take it with you when you leave this earth ,and it looks like that you never be able to spend all of it if you tried. people are hungry and dieing every day and children need homes, school's bed's and food. and shareing has always been the root to happniest. just think about it ?
  • Shame...the money that bought this is tainted, blood money, and NOT EARNED by means of honesty. What an a$$hole.
  • Mang .. Can I be you son..ah ah ah
  • Dear Visitors Comments like "Burn it down" or "Kill him" are not appreciated here and will be removed. allgaiar Wikimapia moderator
  • Agreed, but forcing the rich to experience long term poverty and struggle could be a solution.
  • 52°5'43"N 10°7'59"E Considering the size of the target, that's more than accurate enough for a Reaper drone strike. Not that I'm sanctioning such a horrid act of violence, of course. Just an observation.
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