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of the castle. The new design did away with any defensive functions and reflected recent changes in the accepted princely lifestyle and provided a more open attitude, free access to outer courtyards and garden and a more comfortable, more splendid and refined interior. He expanded this to a comprehensive plan for central Saarbrücken, with individual buildings and groups of buildings, including a spacious square in front of the castle, a city hall, a palace for the hereditary prince
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The length of the wings was 43.08 metres. Each had ten axes: seven in the reserves and three in the pavilions at the end. In accordance with 18th-century customs, the wings were named from the point of view of the corps de logis: the wing nearest the Saar was called the right wing; the wing next to
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from Zerbst to write a report on the structural condition of the Saarbrücken Castle. Stengel had studied architecture at the Royal
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was called the left wing. The four pavilions were named after their compass points: northwest, southwest, northeast and southeast pavilion. The northwest and southwest pavilion each had three windows on their 14.98 metre long sides, and four windows on the 15.84 metre long sides. This geometric
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By 1969, the structural condition of the castle had deteriorated massively. Safety regulations mandated that the south wing be locked up immediately. Several plans were proposed for the reconstruction of the castle. Ideas ranged from reconstructing
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During sewer repairs in August 1977, a three-metre thick wall was discovered that had been part of the main tower of the
Renaissance castle. In March 1989, during the redevelopment of the Palace Square, the staircase was removed and the foundations of the tower were fully excavated. This
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building, named after the chief forester who resided there in 1728. To the northeast, it was bounded by a small single-storey cross-wing, and to then north by the castle wall. In front of the summer house on the southeastern rock was a garden house.
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garden. The new palace, a three-wing structure open to the city, with residential, representative and administrative functions, was completed in 1748. Many architects, engineers and construction workers had been hired for this project.
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reminiscent of the defensive towers of the earlier castle. The main courtyard and the central pavilion sat on the axis of symmetry of the complex. In the earlier castle, the main courtyard had been separated from the city by a mighty
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decided to renovate the building and replace the central pavilion. Construction lasted from 1982 to 1989. The hall built by Dihm was torn down and replaced by a steel skeleton pavilion designed by the architect
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and stood on the southeastern edge of the cliff . The castle was surrounded in the north-east by the Saar Rocks and the river Saar, on the east by a ditch and on the south and southwest by the
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built a summer residence in Saarbrücken and provides a sketch of appearance of the medieval castle. It had a trapezoid-shaped inner court, surrounded by buildings of different widths. There was a
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rectangular, five-storey clock tower — the fifth storey had been added in 1613 — towered over the castle's four wings and was topped with a dome with dormer windows and a
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of the right wing; the left wing housed the administration of the regiment
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central courtyard pavilion. These were in the reserves and were designed symmetrically. From the courtyard one entered the
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demolishing the building. In 1981, the district of
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250:Site history
232:Open to
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757:Saarbrücken
751:Current use
745:gable roofs
732:Saarbrücken
716:Neo-Baroque
666:Grand Salon
483:Louis Crato
381:across the
359:Frederick I
318:Middle ages
307:Renaissance
291:Saarbrücken
206: /
182:Coordinates
97:Saarbrücken
48:introducing
1090:Categories
1046:Baumeister
968:References
396:chronicler
379:drawbridge
191:49°13′48″N
56:March 2012
31:references
1036:0005-674X
1017:0342-1805
998:0513-9058
858:, undated
774:Footnotes
768:Casemates
741:hip roofs
662:mezzanine
630:Talstraße
612:pavilions
592:slighting
504:Bergfried
495:à la mode
491:Talstraße
489:(today's
412:architect
400:Philip IV
338:from the
332:Frederick
242:Condition
237:Partially
194:6°59′33″E
681:basement
572:and the
474:la Bonté
460:Botzheim
444:bastions
344:Henry IV
295:Saarland
596:Baroque
557:Charles
456:arcades
448:rampart
420:bulwark
375:bulwark
370:John II
313:History
287:château
284:Baroque
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408:bailey
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305:and a
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245:In use
222:Palace
33:, but
570:Louis
404:tower
255:Built
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1013:ISSN
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627:the
383:moat
340:King
336:fief
299:Saar
262:1575
258:1575
219:Type
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