Jagdschloss Friedrichsmoor, Hunting lodge in Neustadt-Glewe, Germany.
Jagdschloss Friedrichsmoor is a three-winged half-timbered building set in a forest landscape, consisting of a main house and two side wings that frame an open courtyard. Today it functions as a hotel with ten guest rooms, a restaurant, a terrace cafe, and a hall for events.
Around 1704 Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I had a blockhouse built here, clad and painted in Swedish style with oak boards; smiths' bills show it was finished by 1709. In 1791 Duke Friedrich Franz I replaced it with a new half-timbered lodge, built to plans by court architect Johann Christoph Heinrich von Seydewitz and completed in 1793. Timber was scarce because the Lewitz had been almost completely cleared of forest around 1770, so the forestry office, established here in 1709, carried out reforestation.
The garden hall's scene wallpaper 'La chasse à Compiègne' was printed around 1815 in Paris by Jaquemart & Bernard after designs by Antoine Charles Horace Vernet. Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I acquired it in 1816 via a Hamburg firm, probably the only surviving copy; it hung earlier at Jagdschloss Friedrichsthal. Its five scenes of a courtly red-deer hunt show red hunting coats banned after Napoleon's fall in 1815. Restored again, it has hung in the garden hall since 2004.
The lodge stands amid old oaks in the Lewitz, with the Breite Graben flowing just north of the grounds and deciduous woodland adjoining the site. The straight, 15-kilometre link to Residenzschloss Ludwigslust survives largely intact, though the four radiating avenues that once left the lodge can no longer be traced. The building was used as a restaurant, café and hotel from 1991 until the end of 2023.
Four straight avenues once radiated from the lodge; they can no longer be traced in the landscape. The one that survives is the 15-kilometre, dead-straight link to the Residenzschloss Ludwigslust, still legible as a line through the forest.
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