Jagdschloss Wermsdorf, Renaissance hunting lodge in Wermsdorf, Germany.
Jagdschloss Wermsdorf is a three-winged Renaissance hunting lodge built around a courtyard, its cream stucco facades broken by two-storey cross-gables with volutes. A stair tower with a Welsche Haube and lantern separates the two main gables, and an oriel carries carved sandstone work. The ground floor is vaulted, the upper floor has flat ceilings.
A Saxon elector began construction of the lodge in the early 1600s as a hunting residence. His successor later expanded the building into a grander structure and made it one of the region's major hunting lodges.
The 65-metre-long, 41-centimetre-high hunting frieze was painted in 1609 by Dresden court painter Daniel Breitschneider the Elder. It depicts a hunting procession led by Duke Johann Georg I as Landjägermeister, with Margrave Christian of Brandenburg, Duke Albrecht of Holstein and members of Saxon noble families. The frieze is now on public view in the Churfuerstenzimmer of the restaurant in Moritzburg; a copy hangs in the hall of Jagdschloss Grillenburg.
The building now houses municipal offices and a police station, so the interior is not open to visitors. The broad square in front allows a clear view of the three wings, stepped gables and the clock tower. The linden tree planted in the courtyard in 1874 after King Albert's conversion can be seen from outside.
The 65-metre, 41-centimetre-high hunting frieze painted in 1609 by Dresden court painter Daniel Breitschneider the Elder is not in Wermsdorf: it hangs in the Churfuerstenzimmer of a restaurant in Moritzburg, where it went with the Wettin interior furnishings in 1918. A copy made around 1936 is in Jagdschloss Grillenburg near Tharandt.
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