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The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
Schloss Oldenburg (Oldenburg palace) is a schloss, or palace, in the city of Oldenburg in the present-day state of Lower Saxony, Germany. The first castle on the site was built around 1100 and became the ancestral home of the House of Oldenburg .
The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
- Lambertikirche
- Horst-Janssen-Museum
- State Museum For Art and Cultural History
- Augusteum
- Prinzepalais
- Schlossgarten Oldenburg
- Stadtmuseum Oldenburg
- Lappan
- Degodehaus
- Botanischer Garten
The tallest building in the city, the Lutheran St Lambert’s Church has five towers, the highest of which measures 86 metres above the western facade. The church goes back to the 12th century, but by the end of the 18th century had become dilapidated and was rebuilt in the 1870s and 80s with Brick Neo-Gothic architecture. The interior had been redes...
The multitalented 20th-century artist Horst Janssen grew up in Oldenburg and lived here most of his life, becoming an honorary citizen in 1992. The dedicated museum opened in a purpose-built edifice in 2000 and gives you a timeline of his career and shows the many different mediums he used for his art: There are watercolours, posters, etchings, dra...
When the land Grand Duke of Oldenburg abdicated in 1919, the Duchy’s art collections and valuable ensembles of decorative arts were made available to the public. Today the museum is in three separate buildings, two of which we’ll cover below. The dazzling Baroque Oldenburg Palace was the seat of the Counts (up to 1667), the Dukes (from 1785) and th...
Oldenburg’s first art museum goes back 1867, making it one of the oldest purpose-built museum buildings in North Germany. The Augusteum now holds the Galerie Alte Meister, showing Dutch, Italian, French and German Old Masters from the 1400s to the 1700s. This trove of painting grew steadily after Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg snapped up the pers...
Dating to 1826, the Prinzepalais was the residence for the Russian princes Peter and Alexander. The latter would became Tsar from 1855 until his assassination in 1881. It was only in 2003 that the palace became home to Die Galerie Neue Meister (The New Masters Gallery), for art from the Romantic Period to post-War. Some of the gallery’s many presti...
In 16 hectares, the grounds of Oldenburg Palace push out to the south of the city’s historical centre. The garden is in the English landscape style and in 2014 celebrated its 200th anniversary. Apart from the great height of the mature trees, what you see now isn’t so different from the park that was overseen by Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Th...
With a deceptive, modern lobby next to the Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg’s municipal museum is actually an ensemble of three interconnected historic villas. These are the Ballin’sche Villa, the Jürgens’schen Villa and the Francksen Villa. Together they offer a comprehensive summary of changing tastes and lifestyles from the Baroque period to Art ...
This grand belfry at the start of Langenstraße has an intriguing story to tell. The tower is from the 1460s and was actually the bell-tower of a church and hospital that became defunct during the Reformation and were lost in the city fire in 1676. The Lappan meanwhile was secularised and became a habitable watchtower, while its current Baroque dome...
The last Burgher house to be found in Oldenburg also came through the fire of 1676 undamaged. The Degodehaus is at Markt 24 a little way from the town hall, and is an early-16th-century residential house. Five floors tall, the building is half-timbered and cantilevered and its facade is painted with pretty patterns on the panels between the beams. ...
In 3.7 hectares on Philosophenweg to the northwest of the city lies the botanical garden, maintained by the University of Oldenburg. The garden is carefully delineated according to geographical zones like South America, Australia, Japan, China, North America and the Pacific Northwest, as well as environments like marsh, dune, heath and forest. The ...
10 de may. de 2018 · The Duchy of Oldenburg was located in what's now north west Germany. During the Middle Ages the counts of Oldenburg managed to pave their. way up through marriages. A marriage with a descendant of King Valdemar. I of Sweden and King Eric IV of Denmark, their heirs became kings of. various Scandinavian kingdoms.
The House of Oldenburg is a German dynasty with links to Denmark since the 15th century reigning there from 1448 to 1863. Oldenburgs once supplied monarchs to thrones of Russia, Norway, Sweden and Greece as well.
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