Marcolinihaus, Late Baroque former hunting lodge in Moritzburg, Germany
The Marcolinihaus is a two-storey building with a red tiled roof, cream-coloured walls, dormer windows and tall chimneys, located in the Fasanerie park in Moritzburg. It was built in 1771/72 in the plain Late Baroque style with simple pilaster strips and a mansard roof. The left wing has a lower roofline, while the right section has a steeper gabled roof. A terrace with white parasols and outdoor seating runs along the base.
The structure was built between 1771 and 1772 initially as housing for a pheasant keeper. About a decade later it underwent major reconstruction under Count Camillo Marcolini, transforming it into a residential dwelling.
The house is named after Count Camillo Marcolini, who had it converted from a pheasant keeper's lodge and lived here with his family after his marriage in May 1778. Since 2007 a Moritzburg restaurateur has gradually restored it, and a café opened in the east wing, where a fireplace was built using old bricks from the house's construction period.
The house stands in the Fasanerie, a landscaped park laid out in 1728, and is reached on foot; the owner paid 42,000 euros in 2008 for 14 fixed parking spaces so that no car traffic enters the pheasant garden. A café has operated in the east wing since 2009, and the building has had a water connection and sewer line since that year.
The 2013 restoration uncovered original 18th-century wall paintings that had been hidden beneath later paint layers. This discovery reveals how artistic tastes and decoration preferences shifted over the generations.
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