SCHLOSS HERRENHAUSEN

摘要

The ensemble we know as Herrenhausen got its start in the 17th century as a country estate for the Electors of Hanover. Its notoriety grew with the addition of the Baroque Grosser Garten designed by Martin Charbonnier between 1696 and 1714, bringing to bear all the influence that his teacher Andre Le Notre exerted decades earlier at Versailles. At the same time, a residence was built to terminate the central axis of the expanding gardens. It was more than a century later, in 1819, after the territory had been elevated to a kingdom, that architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves recast the structure with its restrained Neoclassical facade.