page_title: Schloss Ketschendorf
section_title: Original building
hierarchical_section_title: Schloss Ketschendorf / History / Original building
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Obere Klinge 3 in Coburg
context_page_description: Schloss Ketschendorf is a Gothic Revival residence, located in Ketschendorf, at the foot of the Buchberg, in the town of Coburg, in the state of Bavaria, Germany.
  Built at the beginning of the 19th century, the original Schloss of the Baroness von Stolzenau was surrounded by a large park. The current structure was built in 1868/9 following the demolition of the earlier one. It never served as a residence for a ruling prince or member of the nobility. After 1956 it was used as a youth hostel, which was closed on 1 December 2010. Since then the building has been vacant.
context_section_description: Keczendorff, as Ketschendorf was first known around 900 years ago, was an undefended  village outside the city walls of Coburg on the western slope of the Buchberg. The few inhabitants suffered greatly under the Hussite invasions in 1430 and the German Peasants' War in 1525. Twice, in 1567 and 1626, the plague affected the village.
  In 1632, during the siege of the Veste Coburg, General Wallenstein moved his personal quarters to Ketschendorf. Only two years later, during another siege in 1634/5 the Imperial Colonel Schlitz destroyed the whole village with his Croats and reconstruction started in earnest only in 1657.
  In 1802, the Duchess Augusta, wife of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, bought the properties on which the Schloss and the park are located today. In 1804
  she had a summer palace in the Empire style built.
  After the death of the duke in 1806, Schloss Ketschendorf remained the property of the widow Augusta. Besides her seven children,  many princes came to visit with the duchess.  They were her sons-in-law, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia and Queen Victoria’s father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Even Frederick Louis, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the parents of Constantine, Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg, as well as his brother, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, were guests at the castle.
  In 1831, after the death of Dowager Duchess Augusta, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, the second wife of Duke Ernst I, moved to Schloss Ketschendorf and lived there until she herself died in 1860. The owner of the property was then Duke Ernst II. In 1866, he sold the building to a supposedly ailing Frenchwoman named Victorine Noël.
caption: Villa at Obere Klinge 3
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