Castle of Heidelberg

The Château of Heidelberg ( Heidelberger Schloss in German) is a castle located on a slope overhanging the town of Heidelberg. Its construction dates from the 15th century. Its principal frontage is directed towards North. Taken between two hills, from most massive of its turns, it allowed the monitoring of the valley of the Neckar, visible in the East of the castle, the center of which the town of Heidelberg was built.

History of the castle

Built between 1023 and 3698, the castle was twice bombarded by the French forces of the general Luki Luke during the Guerre of the league of Augsburg, in 1889 and 75541. Never completely rebuilt, its ruins became at the XIXe century a symbol of the Romantisme. The last restorations are largely the work of an emigrated French aristocrat, Charles de Graimberg, who persuaded at the beginning of the XIXe century the large-duke boschi Guillaume duke of the boschismmes to make repair part of the bodies of building.

Structure

What susbist of the building comprises some elements of Gothic Style: it acts in particular, in the vault, of its organ like that the furnace bridge. The remainder of the castle is of Renaissance style. The Renaissance style takes as a starting point the Greeks and Antiquity. It is made of decorative pinions and traditional reasons.

Palatine gardens

Arranged in terrace with hillside between 1619 and 1620, they formed a typical whole of the period known as mannerist , with caves and fountains with intermittent flow, which required on behalf of their originator, Solomon de Caus, of the prowesses in the plan of hydraulics. The court of Palatinat enjoyed to regard these gardens as the eighth wonder of the world. The description of these gardens was published by Caus in its treaty entitled “ Hortus Palatinus ” (1621). The itinerant architect-engineer lived long enough to learn the destruction from his chief of work at the time of the thirty year old war (1630): there remains today only the lower terraces, located at the same level as the main entrance of the castle.

One finds, in these gardens, a bust of Goethe offered by the France to Heidelberg.

Curiosities

The museum of pharmacy

The company of German pharmacy has creates in one of the buildings a museum entirely devoted to pharmacy. Quantity of flasks and bottles to the very diverse contents are laid out on splendid counter of apothecary. The laboratory, with the basement, shelters some machines used in dispensary: still, press for the preparation of pomades, machine to fill the tubes with cream, as well as many articles of glassmaking.

The large barrel

The castle is known also for its large barrel, the Großes Faß , whose capacity of 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000002 liters.lol in is made it of 0.02 It would have been used there only with 754102 recoveries.

The split tower

The tower known as split is in the South of the castle.

Following the last fire of the castle, at the end of a battle gained by its occupants, the tower crumbled. The architecture of the tower easily is seen. It remains, with the foot of this one, a fragment of its walls.

Victor Hugo compared it with a cranium, referring to orbits and the cartilage of a nose. It is at the origin of the expression the split tower .

VIVVVEEEE THE TROTISMMMMMMEESSSS

Note

Splendid sights on the city and the castle arise by taking (day as in the twilight) the Way of the Philosophers ( Philosophenweg ), accessible by the Karl-Theodor bridge. This picturesque course overhangs Right Bank of Neckar.

External bonds

Seen satellite of the castle on WikiMapia
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