Top 20 Castles around Bad Berka

The 🏰 Belvedere with its palace park and orangery is an absolute highlight 🤩.

A look inside would be interesting, the mighty shell limestone cliff immediately captivates you.

Belvedere Palace Park and Orangery Summer residence with orangery In the south of Weimar, Belvedere Palace rises on a hill, surrounded by a 43-hectare park. Duke Ernst August of Saxony-Weimar and Eisenach had a baroque summer residence built here between 1724 and 1748, including an orangery and a pleasure garden and maze. After Ernst August's death in 1748, the parks began to fall into disrepair. It was only with the summer stays of Duchess Anna Amalia that they regained their original importance. Duke Carl August, who had reigned since 1775, conducted botanical studies in Belvedere together with Goethe. By 1820, a botanical garden with around 7,900 domestic and foreign plant species had been created. Hereditary Duke Carl Friedrich had the so-called Russian Garden laid out west of the palace for his wife, the Russian Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. The gardens of the Tsar's daughter can still be visited today, as can the recently renovated orangery and the associated gardens. The plant fairs of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar take place regularly in the orangery at the Red Tower. Text / Source: Weimar GmbH, Tourist Information Weimar, Markt 4, Weimar https://www.weimar.de/kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/parks-und-gaerten/schlosspark-und-orangerie-belvede-re/#:~:text=Im%20S%C3%BCden%20von%20Weimar%20erhebt%20sich%20auf%20einer%20Anh%C3%B6he%20das

Tiefurt Castle Duchess Anna Amalia's summer residence The current design reflects the taste of the time around 1800. Originally it was the estate tenant's house, until Duchess Anna Amalia took over the modest castle building after Ettersburg Castle as a summer residence and turned it into a place for literary and social meetings. The Duchess made a conscious decision not to change the exterior architecture, as she particularly liked the rural ambience. Anna Amalia also gathered scholars and friends around her in Tiefurt. The heyday of Tiefurt's sociability, which was reflected in Tiefurt's journal, is associated with the first four years of her summer stays. Performances by the Weimar amateur theater were among the special events. Tour Several works of art commemorate Anna Amalia's trip to Italy from 1788 to 1790, including a watercolor by Johann Georg Schütz showing the Duchess and her traveling party surrounded by Roman artists in the garden of the Villa d'Este. Sculptures and busts by the court sculptor Gottlieb Martin Klauer in the stairwell as well as porcelain from China, Meissen, Copenhagen, Fürstenberg and Vienna are among the artistic highlights of the furnishings. From the courtyard, it is possible to look into the cold kitchen with a variety of utensils. The historical display dishes made of porcelain, wax and papier-mâché on display there come from the ducal property and imitate the dishes in a deceptively realistic way. Text / Source: Weimar GmbH, Tourist Information Weimar, Markt 4, Weimar https://www.weimar.de/kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/schloesser/schloss-tiefurt/#:~:text=Schloss%20Tiefurt.%20Herzogin%20Anna%20Amalias%20Sommersitz.%20Die

Tiefurt Castle Park The Tiefurt Castle Park extends over an area of 21 hectares on both sides of the Ilm. Gently sloping meadows with beautiful groups of trees extend to the river bank. Beyond this, a steep slope covered with dense trees rises. Numerous monuments and park architecture such as the tea pavilion invite you to explore. The Ilmtal cycle path runs directly along the river. Text / Source: Weimar GmbH, Tourist Information Weimar, Markt 4, Weimar https://www.weimar.de/kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/parks-und-gaerten/schlosspark-tiefurt/#:~:text=Der%20Schlosspark%20Tiefurt%20erstreckt%20sich%20auf%20einer%20Fl%C3%A4che%20von

Well-preserved castle complex in a wonderful park.

The yellow-coloured castle is divided into a dominant central building with a small observation tower and two side pavilions with domes, each resting on 8 pairs of columns. It stands on the south side of a round forecourt with a "castle fountain", around which the symmetrically arranged cavalier houses are grouped. Today these are known as the Beethoven House and Bach House in the east and the Mozart House and Haydn House in the west. The castle fountain forms the centre of the forecourt of the castle. Another important boundary is the former menagerie. Inside the castle, the entrance area is decorated with four pictures made of tiles in Delft blue, with typical Dutch motifs such as sailing ships, windmills, etc. This is an addition from the late 19th century. There are many faience pieces from earlier times at Belvedere, which probably come from local production. The tower room in the Corps de Logis, the western pavilion.

BELVEDERE PALACE AND PARK Belvedere Palace Belvedere Palace Park Orangery BELVEDERE PALACE AND PARK Open and close navigation South of Weimar, on a hill and in the middle of a spacious park with an orangery, pleasure garden and maze, lies Belvedere Palace, the baroque summer residence of the Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach family. Since 1923, it has been a museum for 18th century arts and crafts, where exquisite porcelain from the Weimar ducal family can be seen.