page_title: Schloss Ketschendorf
section_title: Construction of the new Schloss
hierarchical_section_title: Schloss Ketschendorf / History / Construction of the new Schloss
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Schloss Ketschendorf in Coburg im Stadtteil Ketschendorf, heute Jugendherberge
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: Already in 1868 the Baroness von Ketschendorf commissioned an architect from Coburg, de:Georg Konrad Rothbart who had created the de:Edinburgh-Palais in Coburg two years before, for the renovation of the ducal Empire-style manor. Rothbart, however, created a new castle, bigger and stronger, next to the original building and condemned the first building, only 63 years old, to be demolished because its "surrounding walls were, for the most part, totally rotten". Within less than a year, he achieved, with the use of 70 craftsmen, the construction.
  In June 1869, the new Schloss Ketschendorf was finished and the old one was demolished. The demolition material was used to build a villa at Obere Klinge No. 4 in Coburg, which quite accurately reproduced the appearance of the old Schloss Ketschendorf in every way and by using the original porches with its classical columns from the old Schloss. This villa is therefore also called the Altes Ketschendorfer Schloss.
  The new castle, with an almost square ground plan, was built from sandstone and red brick as a textbook example of Gothic Revival castle style in the Coburger Land. All four sides are flanked by octagonal crenellated towers. Each of the sides has in the centre a gable of tracery protruding from the top of the porch. The porch on the south side, designed as the entrance to the park, is particularly complicated. Above the gate, a loggia with an overlying terrace leads from the bedroom of the Baroness. The porch's columns on the north front entrance copy the central projection of the south side in a simpler way. The building owner was allowed to attach her new family crest, carved in sandstone, to the northwest corner tower. The shield of the coat of arms shows a harp and a helmet with a baron's coronet and two folded wings. The motto underneath reads Vis in Corde (Latin, "Power in the heart"). In the gable, the arms of the later owner Baron von Mayer can be seen.  It is split to show a rampant lion on the left side and three ears of corn on the right side, above which is a Spangenhelm (combat helmet from the Middle Ages) whose crown sprouts a rampant lion. The motto underneath reads: Fortes Fortuna Adjuval (Latin, "Fortune favors the brave").
  Inside the building the staircase was formed with decorative cast-iron railings and the view, with the tracery of the cathedral windows, is representative of the south side of the castle's centre. Stuccoed ceilings in almost every room and a finely paneled Great Music Room reflect the personal tastes of the new chatelaine.  Also, a dumbwaiter was installed between the kitchen and the overlying hall.
caption: Schloss Ketschendorf
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