Neues Schloss, Baroque palace in Bayreuth, Germany.
Neues Schloss is a Baroque palace in Bayreuth arranged around a central sun temple. Curved arcades form an oval building complex with two matching wings that originally housed an orangery and other facilities.
Construction took place between 1749 and 1753 under Margravine Wilhelmine's leadership. The palace replaced an earlier garden layout that had featured hedge mazes and other ornamental installations.
The name Eremitage refers to the court hermitage founded under Margrave Georg Wilhelm, which Friedrich III gave to his wife Wilhelmine in 1735. The New Palace's grotto-style walls are set with quartz crystals and carnelian; the blue, green and yellow slags came from the glassworks at Warmensteinach and Bischofsgrün, the black from Kupferberg, the red from near Sanspareil, and the crystals from Weißdorf and Raumetengrün.
The complex lies in the Eremitage park east of the Sankt Johannis district, separate from the New Palace in the town centre. The central Sun Temple and the two curved wings are not connected, so visitors walk between them outdoors. The interior was not rebuilt after 1945, so the visit focuses on the exterior walls and the crystal-covered facades.
A gilded quadriga carrying Apollo crowns the central temple dome, representing the sun's daily journey across the Brandenburg-Bayreuth lands. This golden sculpture is one of the few such elaborate roof ornaments found on German palaces from this period.
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