Der Eichenkranz in Wörlitz
Subtitle: Geschichte und Geschichten
By: Herausgeber: Gesellschaft der Freunde des Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreiches e.V.
Series: Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Dessau -- Band 11; Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Dessau-Rosslau -- Bd. 11.
Publisher: Stadtarchiv Dessau-Rosslau
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dessau-Rosslau
Language: ger
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Hotels; Conservation and restoration; Guesthouses; Parks; Gardens; Buildings; Buildings, structures; Eichenkranz (Hotel : Wörlitz, Germany)
Other titles: Hotel und Garten Eichenkranz
Description: In the mid-1780s, the renown of the English-style gardens in Wörlitz had become so widespread that the gardens attracted an ever-increasing stream of visitors. To ensure guests a representative accommodation, Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817) commissioned his architect Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff (1736-1800) to build a new inn. The inn was built from 1785 to 1787 and soon was named "Zum Eichenkranz".  As a city entrance and at the same time a reference point for the gardens, the "Eichenkranz"  was an ingenious architectural and urban solution. During Prince Franz's lifetime the "Eichenkranz" was a meeting place of the intellectual world.  Even after his death, and despite many changes of ownership of the inn, the "Eichenkranz" remained a much-used and popular place, and its outward appearance  remained virtually unchanged.   Only in the last decades of the  20th century did the "Eichenkranz" suffer decline and increasing decay.  It is thanks to the initiative of the Gesellschaft der Freunde des Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreiches and its supporters that so important a building for Wörlitz could be saved.--Cf. Publisher's summary, back cover (translated)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vorwort / -- Rolf Budde; title: Der historische "Eichenkranz" in Wörlitz : Beginn, Rekonstruktion und die Gesellschaft der Freunde des Dessauer-Wörlitzer Gartenreiches  -- Adolf Bill; title: Der Gasthof Zum Eichenkranz in Wörlitz : ein hochrangiges Baudenkmal aus der Zeit der deutschen Klassik  -- Harald Kleinschmidt; title: Der "Eichenkranz" und seine Gaste  -- Frank Kreissler; title: Ortsgruppe Wörlitz Wörlitz : Häuser erzählen ihre Geschichte : eine Stadt macht sich öffentlich -- Dietrich Bungeroth, Kulturbund Dessau-Wörlitz e. V.