Ludwigslust - Ludwigslust

The former royal seat Ludwigslust located in West Mecklenburg. It was laid out by Duke Christian Ludwig II. 1747-56 and was given the nickname “Mecklenburg Versailles” or “Versailles of the North” due to its baroque palace complex, which is unique in northern Germany.

background

Ludwigslust does not have a particularly long history but was only founded in the 18th century by the prince and later Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg. He had a relatively simple hunting lodge built in half-timbered construction from 1731 to 1735 at what was then Gut Klenow. In 1754 he ordered the renaming of Klenow to Ludwigslust. Christian Ludwig's son and successor, Duke Friedrich “the Pious”, moved his residence from Schwerin to Ludwigslust between 1763 and 1765, while the government institutions remained in Schwerin.

Friedrich had the simple hunting lodge - similar to the Versailles model, which was initially just a hunting lodge - expanded into a splendid baroque residential palace. During this time, the associated city of Ludwigslust also grew. As is typical for the Baroque period, it was planned on the drawing board and has straight, wide lines of sight. Schlossstrasse, for example, is a 35-meter-wide avenue, which in a small town with 12,000 inhabitants can seem a bit oversized. It was not until 1837 that Duke Paul Friedrich (Friedrich's great-great-nephew) moved the seat of the princes back to Schwerin.

getting there

By plane

The 53.6302789.991111Hamburg Airport(IATA: HAM) is 125 km away; From there it takes about 1½ hours to Ludwigslust by IC and S-Bahn.

The 52.36224666666713.500671666667Berlin Brandenburg Airport(IATA: BER) is 218 km away. From there, the train takes two to three hours, depending on the time of day and the connection you choose.

By train

Who with the 53.3343811.494531 train arrives twice a day (early in the morning or late in the evening) with the ICE from Berlin (Travel time 1 hour) or Hamburg (43 minutes) to drive. Intercity and Eurocity trains also stop in Ludwigslust every two hours. Most of them also connect Berlin and Hamburg, but some start or their destination is in Dresden or Prague, Kiel or Sylt. With the IC / EC the journey from Hamburg takes 50 minutes, from Berlin 1:15 hours, from Kiel 2 hours, from Dresden 3½ hours.

In regional traffic, Ludwigslust is via the RE 4 line Wismar–Bad little ones–Schwerin–Ludwigslust – Nauen – Berlin–cottbus Reachable every two hours. The connection with Schwerin and Wismar is reinforced by the RB 17 every hour. The journey from Schwerin takes 35 minutes, from Wismar one hour, from Nauen 1½ hours and from Berlin Hbf two hours. The private Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG) also operates the RB line 14, which Ludwigslust on the one hand co-operates Parchim, on the other hand with Hagenow connects (journey time 30 minutes each).

By bus

In the street

Distances
Schwerin	40 km
Lübeck	115 km
Hamburg	120 km
Rostock	125 km
Berlin	195 km

In long-distance road traffic, Ludwigslust can be reached quickly via the A24, at least from Berlin and Hamburg. You can get this from the direction of Berlin at the exit Neustadt-Glewe (12 km away) leave, coming from Hamburg you change on Schwerin Cross onto the A 14. This leads in a north-south direction from Schwerin and Magdeburg close to Ludwigslust, with the junctions Ludwigslust and Grabow. However, the “Altmark Autobahn” between Magdeburg and Ludwigslust is still patchy. In addition, the federal highway B 5 runs through Ludwigslust (Pearl Mountain–Boizenburg).

Tourist Attractions

Castle and Castle Park

53.3249311.488251  Ludwigslust Palace, Lock freedom. Tel.: 49 (0)3874 57190, Fax: (0)3874 571919, Email: [email protected]. .last change: not specified

The Baroque Ludwigslust Palace was built according to plans by Johann Joachim Busch in the form of an E-shaped floor plan from 1772 to 1776. The originally planned side wings could never be added due to lack of funds. Until 1837 it was the residence of the dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The most important room in the palace is the Golden Hall. Since Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a rather small and not particularly rich country and the self-confident estates had to decide on the budget, the dukes could not deal with valuable materials as lavishly as other rulers. That is why paper mache, stucco, marble, precious woods, fabric curtains, leather surfaces and even tapestries were imitated in a deceptively real way. Hardly anywhere has paper mache been used so diverse and artfully as here, which is why art historians speak of it Ludwigsluster Carton. Duke Friedrich even ordered that all files no longer needed in the country should be recycled in this way in the castle - an early form of recycling. Ludwigslust Palace is now a branch of the Schwerin State Museum. The collection includes some valuable paintings from the collection of the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

On the side facing the city is the Palace Square and the basin, to which the court church adjoins further south. The Schlossplatz is the starting point of Schlossstrasse, which runs as a representative avenue and line of sight to the east and around which the city was planned as planned.

The system also includes:

• The baroque-classical 53.3201511.490152 City Church (formerly Hofkirche), which was built from 1765 to 1770 according to plans by the master builder Johann Joachim Busch opposite the courtyard front.
• The classicist hereditary grand ducal 53.3245511.501083 StablesType is group designation (1821) from Barca.
• The Syringe house (1814) from Barca was originally intended to be an orangery.
• The ex Hauptwache (1853) by Ludwig Wachenhusen.
• The classical former 53.3232311.490284 Prince's Palace (around 1800) made of red stones on the oval square of the basin, badly damaged in a fire on the night of March 12th to 13th, 2011
• The former Wash house as a large two-storey half-timbered house on the Schloss Freiheit.

The Castle Park was laid out by Busch as a baroque garden with French characteristics and decorated with avenues and fountains. It is the largest park in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This includes:

• the Big cascade on the courtyard side, which still dates from this time,
• the Great canal (Ludwigsluster Canal) from 1760, which directs the water to the cascade,
• the Stone bridge over the canal from 1780 based on plans by Rudolph Kaplunger,
• the artificial ruin (Grotto) from 1788 (comparable development as in the castle Sanssouci),
• the Swiss house from 1789,
• the 53.3248311.484945 Catholic Church of St. Helena and Andrew in romantic neo-Gothic, built 1803-1809 according to plans by Seydewitz and completed by Barca,
• the classicistic 53.3237311.482826 Mausoleum for Helena PavlovnaType is group designation, Daughter of Tsar Paul I and wife of Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig zu Mecklenburg, built in 1806 according to plans by Joseph Ramée,
• the 53.327311.48517 Mausoleum for Duchess LuiseType is group designation from 1809 based on plans by J. G. Barca.

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  City Church

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  Prince's Palace

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  Cascade in the castle park

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  St. Helena and Andreas

Old town

The Old town was built by the court builders Busch and Heinrich von Sedlitz and from 1809 by the builder Johann Georg Barca according to plan in the style of late baroque and classicism. From 1809 private building was also allowed. The first concentrated construction phase ended in 1837. Noteworthy are:

• The axis- and mirror-symmetrical late baroque Schlossstrasse (earlier Grote Strasse) with the brick houses and others with
  • the former Horse stable from Barca, which is located behind the Schlossstrasse 16,
  • the 53.3248311.494888 town hall, Built in 1780 by Johann Joachim Busch, initially court house and house of the Carton Fabrique, then the savings bank; from 1876 town hall, renovated and expanded in 1996,
  • the former 53.3240911.491749 ducal guest house and today Country hotel de Weimar, Built in 1773 according to plans by J. J. Busch,
  • the historicizing Post office building from 1888 from the founding period.
• The 53.3244911.4971510 Alexandrinenplatz according to plans by the state master builder Friedrich Georg Groß.
• The Canal Street with the classicist town houses based on plans by Barca and others
  • the classicist Seminar building (today Fritz Reuter School) from 1829 according to plans by Groß,
  • the classicist Suhrland House (No. 22) for the court painter Rudolph Suhrlandt.
• The little one Number street with the numbered houses for the soldiers of the former guard regiment.

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  Schlossstrasse

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  town hall

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  Former ducal guest house

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  Historic post office

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  Ludwigsluster Canal and Canal Street

Other structures

• The Gatekeeper House at the Schwerin Gate of Barca.
• The hospital building of the Bethlehem Abbey by 1851.
• The graveyard with the Main portal (1791) based on plans by Busch.
• The new City Hall (2000) on Christian-Ludwig-Straße, a modern combination of old (former riding school of the Dragoons from 1893) and new, according to plans by a local engineering office.
• The 53.321311.497411 Main milestone on Grabower Allee was built as a granite obelisk in 1829 as part of the construction of the Chaussee from Hamburg to Berlin.
• The 53.329411.382312 Windmill grief from 1880

Monuments

• Monument to Duke Friedrich with allegorical sandstone group and marble relief of the Duke by sculptor Rudolph Kaplunger, erected in 1791
• Monument to Duchess Helena Pavlovna with a marble urn by the sculptor Franz Pettrich, erected around 1810
• Monument with a bronze statue of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I by sculptor Albert Wolff, erected in 1869
• Monument with bronze bust of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. by sculptor Hugo Berwald, 1899 in Lübheen built in 1936 after Ludwigslust
• Monument to the fallen 1914/18 of the Meckl. Jäger Battalion No. 14 with a bronze figure by the sculptor Hugo Berwald, cast in 1915, unveiled in 1922
• Equestrian statue of Princess Alexandrine of Prussia on Alexandrinenplatz, erected in 2003 by Andreas Krämmer & Holger Lassen
• The memorial on the Castle forecourt Am Bassin for 200 victims of the Wöbbelin concentration camp, designed in 1951 by the artist Herbert Bartholomäus
• Memorial stone from 1945 on the Cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church for the collective graves of 116 known and 112 unknown prisoners of the Wöbbelin concentration camp who died after liberation in 1945
• Soviet cemetery of honor on Grabower Allee for a total of 220 Soviet victims of World War II, including fallen Red Army soldiers as well as prisoners of war and forced laborers
• Memorial stone from 1962 on the area of ​​the former Jewish cemetery in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
• Memorial stone from 1961 in the seminar garden in memory of the KPD politician Ernst Thälmann who was murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944
• Memorial for the favorite horse of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; erected around 1815 by Johann Georg Barca

activities

• Baroque festival in May
• Lindenfest in June
• Small festival in the big park in August
• Open-air concerts at the castle in summer
• Baroque Christmas market

shop

kitchen

• Old guard, Lock freedom 8 (directly at the castle). Tel.: (0)3874-570353. Open: Tue-Sat 11 am–9pm, Sun 11 am–6pm.Price: Small dishes from € 8.60, main dishes from € 13.90.last change: not specified

nightlife

accommodation

• "Zur Linde" pub with guesthouse, Neustädter Str. 16. Tel.: 49 (0)3874 25099-72, Mobile: 49 (0)172 9868635, Fax: (0)3874 25099-73. last change: not specified
• Country hotel de Weimar, Schlossstrasse 15. Tel.: (0)3874-418-0, Email: [email protected]. Four-star hotel in the former ducal guest house in the immediate vicinity of all sights (250 m from the castle). In addition to 39 double rooms and 2 single rooms, there are two “luxury rooms” and three suites; Fine dining restaurant, bar, lounge, sauna.Price: double room from € 93.last change: not specified

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Practical advice

trips

• Neustadt-Glewe (10 km northeast, B 191) - lies on the southern edge of the Lewitz. Baroque town hall, old castle and new palace.
• Hagenow (27 km northwest, B 5 direction Boizenburg to Neu Krenzlin, turn right there) - half-timbered houses; Museum for everyday culture in the Griesen area. The train driver reaches Hagenow with the hourly trains of the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG).
• Lenzen (Elbe) (29 km south, B 5 direction Perleberg to Grabow, turn right there) - small town on the Elbe; Gothic church and castle with museum.
• Lübheen (30 km to the west, B 5 direction Boizenburg to Groß Krams, then left) - small country town in the Elbetal nature reserve; Reed adventure trail.
• Doemitz (33 km southwest, B 191) - from Dömitz down the Elbe; Remains of the old railway bridge that was destroyed in 1945.
• Schwerin (36 km north, B 106) - the capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the smallest capital of the German federal states. The city's landmark is the Schwerin Castle, seat of the state parliament.
• Pearl Mountain (39 km southeast, B 5) - the former capital of Prignitz, today the district town of the Prignitz district in the nearby state of Brandenburg. St. Jacobikirche, town hall and Roland figure on the market square.

literature

• City of Ludwigslust (ed.), Sylvia Böttcher (editor): Ways to the city - 125 years of Ludwigslust, 2001, Ludwigslust
• Norbert Ertner, Horst and Tina Herzig: Ludwigslust, Stadtbildverlag Leipzig, 2001
• Sabine Bock: Grand Ducal Art in Ludwigslust Palace. Compensation for princes, expropriation and restitution. Schwerin: Thomas Helms Publishing House, 2014, ISBN 978-3-940207-98-2 .
• Eva Firzlaff: Baroque work of art Schloss Ludwigslust - a prime example of paper mache. Deutschlandfunk, broadcast Sunday stroll, March 6, 2016.

Web links

http://www.stadtludwigslust.de - Official website of Ludwigslust