Jagdschloss Fasanerie, Hunting lodge in Hermannsfeld, Rhönblick, Germany
Jagdschloss Fasanerie is a plain classicist lodge with two corner pavilions, built in 1788–1789 to designs by architect Johann Heinrich Deahna and horticulturist Carl Ludwig Buttmann, on the edge of a small wood east of Hermannsfeld. A large stuccoed hall occupies the upper floor; the furniture and paintings are gone. The building is used by the Jägerstube restaurant and for municipal festivities.
Duke George I commissioned the lodge around 1790 as an expression of princely hunting interests. The building suffered plundering by Russian Cossacks during the Napoleonic Wars.
The pheasantry gave the lodge its name: pheasants, red deer and fallow deer were kept in enclosures in the little wood, and from 1881 a public inn operated on the site. Since 2013 tenants have run the Jägerstube restaurant, and the municipality of Rhönblick uses the building for local festivities.
The grounds are located on the Main-Werra long-distance cycling route with marked pathways connecting to the surrounding landscape. Access is straightforward and the site works well as a stop during cycling trips.
The forest was already used as a deer park in the 16th century, and from 1680 it served the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen as hunting ground. In 1881 a public inn was established on the grounds, long before the monarchy ended in 1918.
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